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TechCabal Uber is gone. Its users must find another way around Nigeria.

For thousands of Nigerians who frequently use ride-hailing platforms, Uber's exit after 12 years came as a surprise, raising quest...

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TechCrunch Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model

For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, Meta is offering an explicit discount averaging out...

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TechCrunch OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model

OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed,...

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TechCrunch Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman in $70M round on bet to turn smart rings into computers

Ultrahuman is targeting a $200 million annual revenue run rate by January 2027 as it builds a new Qualcomm-powered smart ring.

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TechCrunch Circular unveils Ring 3 series with contactless payments and on-finger vibration alerts

The Circular Ring 3 series announcement comes amid a year of heightened competition in the smart ring market, following the launch...

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TechCrunch Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race

The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI mod...

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TechCrunch Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella

WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques. Google says it will start...

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TechCrunch Volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston

Our rebranded Boston event, TechCrunch Founder Summit (formerly All Stage), is back on November 4th! And we are looking for some i...

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TechCrunch TikTok comments are getting more interactive with voice comments, polls, and more

With the additions, the app is borrowing features from messaging apps as it looks to deepen engagement on its platform.

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TechCrunch Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.

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TechCabal Village Capital deploys $450,000 in first Nigeria investments

The Nigeria investments come as early-stage startups continue to face a difficult funding environment.

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TechCrunch Amazon’s Zoox expands its robotaxi service to Las Vegas airport

Zoox is expanding to this critical ride-hailing destination a few weeks after it started charging for robotaxi rides.

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TechCabal Nomba raises $3 million to target Africa–Asia payment corridor

Nomba has raised a $3 million debt facility through CardinalStone Finance Company Limited to expand its cross-border payments infr...

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TechCabal Claude Fable 5.1 price and availability: Everything you need to know

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on Tuesday, September 1, its top AI model for long, complex work like coding, research, comput...

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TechCabal What you should know about Claude Mythos 5.1

Claude Mythos 5.1 costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. It has a one-million-token context window...

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TechCabal With Uber gone, Bolt says Nigeria “remains an important market”

Uber’s departure leaves Bolt as the other major international ride-hailing platform serving Nigeria.

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TechCabal As Nigeria’s capital market surges, Daba and Coronation want global investors in

The partnership comes as Nigeria's stock market continues its surge. The NGX ended August with an all-share index year-to-date ret...

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TechCabal Inside ISWAP’s secret AI units in Northern Nigeria

Around military bases across northeastern Nigeria, deep defensive trenches serve as a low-tech bulwark against militants from Isla...

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TechCabal Capitec’s $33.8 billion business joins A2X as it expands beyond banking

It also comes as Capitec evolves beyond traditional banking into a digital platform spanning payments, connectivity, devices, insu...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Uber goes bye-bye

In today's edition: Uber ends operations in Nigeria and Uganda || Win for Uber and Bolt in Kenya || Pick n Pay’s grocery app had a...

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TechCrunch The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical...

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TechCrunch Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say

The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers be...

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TechCrunch TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll con...

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TechCrunch Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates

Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its busin...

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