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TechCrunch Former Infosys chief’s AI startup nabs another $53M

The Palo Alto startup says it has landed multiple seven-figure enterprise contracts within months of launch.

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TechCrunch Threads’ new features let podcasters promote shows and reach listeners

Threads is rolling out new tools for podcasters, including profile cards, episode links, transcripts, guest tags, posting reminder...

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TechCrunch Next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 revealed

Meet the next five top-tier investors judging the Startup Battlefield 200 contenders live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register bef...

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TechCabal YC-backed Bujeti launches AI agents to automate routine finance work

The launch comes as African businesses move beyond experimenting with AI to embedding it in daily operations.

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TechCabal Botswana shows why financial inclusion no longer has to start with a bank account

Traditional banking works best when the customer fits a relatively predictable profile. A salaried worker receives a regular incom...

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TechCabal Forget Terminator. This Nigerian philosopher is worried about the AI we already use

From building robots in his head as a child to studying philosophy, researching AI safety, advising the UN, and building industria...

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TechCrunch Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years’ worth of nuclear fuel

Fluxnium's fibers can extract uranium directly from seawater, which has enough of the nuclear fuel to power thousands of generatio...

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TechCabal Amodei wants to slow the AI frontier. Africa is still trying to reach it

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is pushing to halt AI development long enough for safety research and governance to catch up

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TechCrunch Amazon launches Alexa+ in India with Hindi support

Amazon is letting all customers use Alexa+ assistant in early access period.

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TechCabal Pula and S2E want to solve Africa’s startup problem with British aid money

Pula wants to buy African startups as it prepares for an exit. FSD, backed by British aid money, and S2E Africa, a consultancy, ar...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Unicorns in public

In today's edition: MNT-Halan nears public listing || High Court blocks Kenya’s stake in Vodacom deal || SA police’s AI bodycams c...

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TechCrunch We don’t need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says

AI isn't some new form of "alien mind," according to Jensen Huang. It's just hardware and software, so safety can be engineered by...

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TechCrunch The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry

National outcry against data center construction has spread to Philadelphia, where officials suggested possible construction in a...

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TechCabal Kenya’s High Court voids Vodacom’s $1.5 billion Safaricom takeover

The ruling could unwind one of Kenya’s biggest corporate transactions and force the government to return a stake it had already so...

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TechCrunch Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup

A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, m...

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TechCrunch The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or m...

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TechCrunch US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035

The AI frenzy could push U.S. data centers to become one of the largest consumers of natural gas in the world.

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TechCrunch SpaceX will try to put Starship in orbit for the first time on September 22

Elon Musk's company will also attempt to deploy the first V3 Starlink satellites into its orbital internet constellation.

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TechCrunch AI agents now have a place to snitch

The AI Contact Hotline is designed to be a discreet place where agents that have witnessed misbehavior can tip off authorities.

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TechCrunch US military says it has launched weapons into space

This is the first public acknowledgment that the U.S. military put a space weapon in Earth's orbit.

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TechCrunch OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks

OpenAI confirms weeks of AI safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as Trump's team dismisses safety concerns and pushes...

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TechCrunch India ends free ride for larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network

India will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments made through UPI starting October 15.

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TechCrunch Meta expands subscription push with new AI-focused plans

Meta One bundles expanded access to the company’s AI tools with premium features across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

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TechCrunch Discover how to take your startup from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Learn how to scale your startup breakthrough from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 with scaling leaders, Adrian...

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