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TechCabal Sony Xperia 10 VIII: Release date, price and specs

Table of contents Sony Xperia 10 VIII release date Sony Xperia 10 VIII price Is the Sony Xperia 10 VIII Worth the price? Sony Xper...

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TechCrunch This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’

The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction wor...

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TechCrunch Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and...

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TechCrunch AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lowe...

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TechCrunch Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents

Called Plaud One, these adopt the simple bare-bones style of Apple's AirPods, and can record calls, while their case can be used t...

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TechCabal Three companies now control nearly 70% of Nigeria’s ISP market

Nigeria’s internet service provider (ISP) market is growing, but the gains are increasingly going to a few major players.

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TechCabal AWS wants businesses to turn AI ideas into products in 45 days

Amazon Web Services is betting that putting its engineers directly inside customer teams can help businesses overcome a common pro...

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TechCrunch OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go...

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TechCabal Confessing to a computer: The hidden danger of AI in vulnerable spaces

Where should AI not be allowed to operate without a human being ultimately responsible? Healthcare should be an obvious starting p...

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TechCabal Bolt backs Mombasa County push to formalise 400 delivery riders with training and licences

Bolt has partnered with the Mombasa County government to launch a programme to help 400 delivery riders in the county obtain forma...

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TechCrunch Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidi...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Pick n Pay, pick n scroll

In today's edition: Ventures Platform closes $84m fund || Kenya’s Musalia Mudavadi wants the country to join global cyber-police |...

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TechCrunch Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy conce...

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TechCrunch Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships st...

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TechCrunch Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.

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TechCrunch Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9

The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It'll also be the first...

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TechCrunch Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states

One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled wi...

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TechCrunch What’s driving Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable to Legora

Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But...

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TechCrunch Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents

Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searc...

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TechCrunch Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

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TechCrunch Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

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TechCrunch How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

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TechCrunch OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach

The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.

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TechCrunch Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web

Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization t...

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