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TechCrunch Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers

Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding.

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TechCabal How two high school sweethearts built an AI company for farmers

In 2022, after careers in banking and agricultural development, they founded Green Giraffe, a Zambian startup using AI and satelli...

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TechCabal MTN Nigeria’s fintech revenue slumps after airtime lending pause

While its mobile money business continued to attract new users, the suspension of a single product was enough to push the entire f...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – More birr for Ethiopia’s Safaricom

In today's edition: Quick Fire 🔥 with Omolara Dada || Visa taps Anne Kinuthia-Otieno || Safaricom bets on Ethiopia || Who secured...

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TechCabal Quick Fire 🔥 with Omolara Dada

Meet Omolara Dada, a senior product marketing manager at Busha, where she is building the business-to-business (B2B) marketing fun...

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TechCrunch Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests

After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents.

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TechCrunch Apple says gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt services growth

Apple said a slowdown in mobile gaming and changes to the App Store’s business model — including court-ordered payment rule change...

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TechCrunch Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host

Amazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind.

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TechCrunch Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact

Reddit's financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web are stirrin...

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TechCrunch AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares

The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has c...

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TechCrunch Apple stockpiles inventory as it braces for ‘significant supply constraints’

Apple is worried enough about supply shortages that it reported about $11.1 billion in inventory, which is almost double the $5.7...

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TechCrunch Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an expone...

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TechCrunch Spotify launches ‘User Notes’ to let users add memories to songs

Spotify says the new feature is designed to let users add personal captions to their favorite songs, such as noting why a track wa...

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TechCrunch Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A

Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile.

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TechCrunch LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’

LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's...

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TechCrunch Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag

Friend, the AI wearable, can now talk to its users — for an enhanced price.

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TechCrunch CareCloud begins to notify hundreds of thousands after hackers stole medical records

The health tech data giant, which handles vast amounts of patients' medical data, said hackers struck one of its protected health...

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TechCrunch Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply-chain risk’ label

A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk,...

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TechCrunch Florida plans to build air taxi pads using $200M intended for EV chargers

Florida wants to use federal EV charger funds to build an air taxi network connecting golf courses, luxury apartment buildings, an...

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TechCrunch When will fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems go public?

There are fresh signs that fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems will list in the next two to three years.

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TechCabal Visa appoints ex-Airtel Money Kenya chief as East Africa head

According to Visa, Kinuthia-Otieno will be based in Nairobi, where she will lead the company's efforts to grow digital payments, d...

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TechCrunch Tesla made its 10 millionth EV

The milestone means Tesla is halfway to accomplishing one of the four core product goals Elon Musk has to hit to unlock his full $...

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TechCrunch Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M

The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities...

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TechCabal After foreigners leave, South Africa’s convenience stores face a tech test

While some South Africans have welcomed the return of locally owned businesses, others question whether township consumers can aff...

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