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TechCabal Kenyan travel-booking startup BuuPass taps SafariBucks for cross-border travel payments

BuuPass has partnered with SafariBucks to let travellers pay for transport across African markets without switching between curren...

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TechCabal Terrahex wants to build Bitcoin mines around Nigeria’s stranded power

It's a bet already being tested elsewhere on the continent, from flare-gas mining in Bayelsa, southern Nigeria, to Ethiopia's hydr...

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TechCrunch Spotify finally lets parents exclude kids’ music from Wrapped and recommendations

Parents can finally get the kids' music out of Spotify Wrapped and other personalized playlists.

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TechCrunch Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear

Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing, and customer-support tasks.

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TechCabal Francophone Africa’s fintech boom solved access, not financial inclusion

Fintechs reached the customers banks struggled to serve. Now, the battle is moving to who controls the rails, deposits, credit, an...

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TechCrunch New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave

Italian startup Exein has raised a $270 million round of funding led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch 4 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Last day to exhibit at Disrupt is Sept 18. 4 days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators and te...

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TechCabal The picture in her head: How this blind creator teaches AI to be her eyes

A visually impaired entrepreneur uses AI to create logos, flyers and videos for her business, adapting different tools to work mor...

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TechCrunch Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents

Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Ribbit Capita...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – IPO gold rush, fintech gridlock

In today's edition: Dangote Refinery’s IPO proves too hot to handle || Twiga Foods enters administration || Egypt's Beltone VC eye...

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TechCabal Madica invests $200,000 in five African startups, enters Algeria and Cameroon

Madica has invested $200,000 each in five new African startups, including its first bets in Algeria and Cameroon, bringing this ye...

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TechCrunch Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too

When Jensen Huang took a live call from Trump, some of us were more focused on the phone he used to take it.

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TechCrunch With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again

Apple’s long-delayed Siri overhaul is finally here with iOS 27, and it changes how useful the assistant feels day to day.

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TechCrunch macOS 27: new Siri takes on AI productivity apps

The two most noticeable things about macOS 27 Golden Gate are the newly updated Siri AI and the design changes that make windows a...

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TechCabal Lebara launches Nigeria’s second commercial mobile virtual network

The launch makes Lebara the second MVNO to begin commercial service under Nigeria’s 2022 regulatory framework, after Vitel Wireles...

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TechCrunch Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’

Though Elon Musk and Sam Altman have supported Dario Amodei's calls to slow the pace of AI development, Jensen Huang seems to feel...

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TechCrunch A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup from a former Spotify leader for making music apps

Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.

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TechCrunch OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says

Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.

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TechCrunch ClickFix attacks are tricking Mac and Windows users into hacking themselves

If you clicked on a fake HBO Max ad on Reddit in the past week, you might have fallen victim to a rising "ClickFix" security threa...

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TechCrunch Amazon Prime Video takes on TikTok with short-form news clips

Prime Video is adding on-demand local and national news clips as Amazon joins other streamers experimenting with short-form video...

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TechCrunch AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance

The company also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time i...

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TechCrunch Fashion app Daydream uses Apple Intelligence to help you shop the outfits in your camera roll

Thanks to the launch of iOS 27, Daydream's app now includes features that can turn saved outfit photos into shoppable results and...

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TechCrunch Volkswagen’s crazy-efficient EV borrows an idea from Slate

Volkswagen's new efficiency-minded halo car is almost twice as efficient as the most efficient production car, the Lucid Air.

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TechCrunch A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup offering fun music apps without any AI prompting

Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.

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