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TechCrunch OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

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TechCabal This AI research company wants to put 1,000 African languages into AI

African Languages Lab has spent years building data for underrepresented African languages. Now, its Mansa AI platform brings 30 l...

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TechCrunch Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape

Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.

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TechCrunch Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government

Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now the plant's owner is getting a $1.9 billion loan fr...

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TechCrunch Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal

Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome d...

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TechCrunch A hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it

The latest heist is one of the largest thefts of cryptocurrency to date.

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TechCabal Kenya’s Flowt raises $550,000 as it targets a $1 million loan book

The Nairobi-based company uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse financial records, including bank and M-Pesa statements and...

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TechCrunch Poseidon Aerospace lands $60M ahead of first pilotless test flight

The startup is trying to rethink the economics of cargo aircraft by removing pilots from the equation entirely.

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TechCrunch Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch

Bluecore Energy announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $50 million seed round — just months after raising a $10 million pre-seed and...

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TechCrunch Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business

The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe, and PSG Equ...

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TechCabal The platforms that help Kenyans get paid are changing the rules

Kenya’s digital economy faces fresh disruption as PayPal, Sendwave, Hurupay and Twitch change services used to earn and move money...

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TechCabal Power Brunch: Nigeria’s data sovereignty push goes beyond local servers

With Nigeria’s financial sector facing a January 1, 2027, deadline to comply with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s data-localisation...

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TechCabal Africa’s last-mile electricity problem cannot be solved by markets alone

Kenya illustrates the problem. Successive governments have spent years extending the national grid, including through the Last Mil...

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TechCrunch Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets

Stoke has "completed the initial closing" of a $1B Series E round intended to help it reach orbit and prepare a new, larger rocket...

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TechCabal ARC Ride raises $33.3 million to expand its battery-swapping model beyond Kenya

The Kenyan electric mobility startup has raised $33.3 million in asset-backed debt and equity to expand its battery-swapping netwo...

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TechCabal Fintech won in Francophone Africa. Now what?

Fintech dominates in much of Francophone Africa. But now, the region needs more proven tech economies to deepen participation.

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – A $451 million divestiture

In today's edition: BPI, Portuguese commercial bank, sells Angolan stake || What’s changing on DStv? || Ghana launches Marrify ||...

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TechCrunch Eric Wu’s newest company, out of stealth since May, is going after construction’s labor crunch

Eric Wu, who built and ran Opendoor before stepping away in 2022, has had his new company, NavigateAI, out of stealth since May —...

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TechCrunch A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything," stunned Telluride audiences Su...

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TechCrunch What we expect from the upcoming Apple launch

While Apple's first foldable iPhone Ultra will headline the September 9 launch, we're also expecting news about AirPods and HomePo...

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TechCabal Mukuru wants Botswana’s phones to do more than receive and send money

For consumers who have traditionally received money through remittances or mobile wallets before cashing it out, the card removes...

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TechCabal How PIDG helped 24 Nigerian companies raise $247 million at home

PIDG has helped bring close to 300 projects to financial close, mobilising nearly $32 billion of private sector investment into pr...

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TechCrunch Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important...

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TechCabal Nigeria needs 62.5 million more NINs in six months to hit World Bank deadline

NIMC now has 117.5 million people with National Identification Numbers (NINs), but the latest World Bank assessment suggests the h...

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