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TechCrunch Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B

At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the sec...

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TechCrunch EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers

Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.

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TechCrunch Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.

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TechCrunch India moves to give its instant payments network a business model

The legislation lays the groundwork for a potential overhaul of India's zero-merchant-discount-rate regime, under which businesses...

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TechCrunch Spotify now has over 300M subscribers

Notably, the company saw its subscriber base swell by 9% in the second quarter despite raising prices in several regions this year...

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TechCrunch Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff ma...

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TechCabal AI agents and state contracts power Côte d’Ivoire’s startup push

Côte d’Ivoire launches AI-backed support programme for 30 startups, offering public contract access, cloud credits, and scale-up a...

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TechCabal Nigeria’s 90,000km fibre network will be built by a company that doesn’t yet exist

Nigeria’s ambition to become Africa’s digital economy powerhouse now rests on a company that has yet to be legally incorporated. T...

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TechCabal Google Pixel 11 Pro: Release date, price, and specs

Table of contents When is the Google Pixel 11 Pro coming out? Google Pixel 11 Pro detailed specs How much will the Google Pixel 11...

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TechCabal How one Ghanaian developer is redesigning assistive AI for African users

When Emmanuel Quartey temporarily lost hearing in one ear in February 2024, the impact was immediate. Everyday conversations becam...

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TechCabal Telkom’s voice era is over. Data now pays the bills

Telkom Group, South Africa's legacy telecom operator, has data now accounting for nearly two-thirds of its operating revenue.

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TechCabal CcHUB, Mastercard Foundation select 12 startups for fourth EdTech Fellowship cohort

Co-creation HUB (CcHUB) has selected 12 Nigerian startups for the fourth cohort of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship.

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Death, taxes, and crypto

In today's edition: Nigeria issues crypto tax rules || South Africa’s new rules for spam callers || South Africa’s capital-control...

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TechCrunch After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are...

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TechCrunch Snap CEO sidesteps Specs preorder questions on Q2 earnings call

When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decad...

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TechCrunch Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all ove...

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TechCrunch Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.

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TechCrunch Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

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TechCrunch Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedente...

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TechCrunch AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS now allows vibe-coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step toward deco...

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TechCabal Nigeria wants to collect 1.5% crypto stamp duty in Bitcoin, USDT

Every time someone buys Bitcoin, the stablecoin USDT, or another cryptocurrency in Nigeria, the government will take a share of th...

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TechCrunch Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics

Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.

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TechCrunch Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. Yet it arrives at a moment when si...

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TechCrunch Outernet turns your saved posts into real-world adventures

Founded by the creators of viral offline events like San Francisco’s citywide scavenger hunt Pursuit, Outernet's app helps users s...

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