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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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TechCrunch OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinki...

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TechCrunch MapQuest is now the No. 1 US app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming

The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name,...

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TechCrunch It sure looks like hackers breached a major ID card verification service

An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver's license photos stolen from an ID verification service...

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TechCrunch Delivery Hero board backs Uber’s $15B takeover bid

If approved, the combined company would become one of the largest food delivery platforms in the world.

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TechCrunch US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material

"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that s...

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TechCrunch Enhanced geothermal notches another win as Google buys 400 MW from Fervo

Fervo's deal with Google could expand to 1 gigawatt of geothermal power, enough to supply a very large AI data center in Utah.

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TechCrunch Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months

Wonderful said it will use its $550 million Series C funding to develop products faster, expand its FDE teams, and meet demand for...

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TechCrunch India’s richest man now wants to turn aging computers into AI-ready PCs

Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for as little as about $11 for two months.

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TechCrunch X shifts US creator payouts from Stripe to X Money

X says U.S. creator payouts will now be handled through its X Money payments service, a change that appears to replace the previou...

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TechCabal Kenyan police arrest FlexPay founders over theft and fraud allegations

The founders of Flexitech Group Limited, the company behind the Kenyan save-now-buy-later fintech FlexPay, have been arrested over...

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TechCrunch Pangram’s Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than ‘Real or Fake’

The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and...

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TechCabal “Things will become even tougher for us,” Uber drivers say after Nigeria exit

“I have been with Uber for many years,” he told TechCabal. “It is sad they have to go, and it will affect my line of business beca...

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TechCabal Kenya’s new phone number rules will make recycling costlier for telcos

Kenya’s telecom operators will have to change how they deactivate and recycle inactive phone numbers from September 19, when new r...

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TechCrunch HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments

Security companies are scrambling to build products that can monitor not just agents but also the tools and add-ons they use.

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