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TechCrunch Matt Mullenweg tells (trolls?) Automattic staff, saying he’s back in control after CEO ouster

In a Slack message seen by TechCrunch, Matt Mullenweg told Automattic employees he’s back in control of the company, days after it...

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TechCrunch Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO

The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.

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TechCrunch Scammers target hundreds of thousands of crypto owners after Trezor confirms data breach of email provider

This is the second data breach affecting a company that hardware crypto wallet maker Trezor relies on.

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TechCabal Musa Mishamo: The young Tanzanian engineer watching African farms from space

Mishamo was born near the shores of Lake Victoria, around Mwanza, in a village where they connected with the outside world through...

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TechCabal South Africa hands Nigerian romance scam suspects to FBI over $6.2 million fraud

The case highlights a broader shift in the cybercrime economy, where criminals can exploit human trust without ever breaching a de...

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TechCabal “Take the worker out of the pit”: How ABB’s Charl Marais sees the future of African mining

AI could make African mining safer and more efficient by connecting machines, systems, and workers and moving people away from dan...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – New CEO at Absa Kenya

In today's edition: Kenya's new rules for cross-border data protection || Yusuf Omari: Absa Kenya's new CEO || SA police and body-...

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TechCabal Kenyan political operator used Claude to mass-produce election propaganda, Anthropic says

Its discovery offers an early glimpse of how generative AI could shape Kenya’s political ecosystem ahead of the next election.

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TechCabal Nigeria’s UduTech taps South Korean GPU supplier to expand Africa’s AI compute

The deal gives UduTech access to Baro AI’s multi-GPU Poseidon servers and broadens the range of hardware available through its AGH...

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TechCrunch Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upped that play

Collaborative Fund just bought into D.C. United and its stadium, with firm founder Craig Shapiro pitching it as a way to showcase...

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TechCrunch OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand

The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.

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TechCrunch Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escala...

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TechCrunch Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year

Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals a...

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TechCrunch Furo’s founders left Silicon Valley — and it’s paying off

The three 28-year-old founders behind energy startup Furo moved from Silicon Valley and back to Germany, and yet secured $4 millio...

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TechCrunch Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his

Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.

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TechCrunch Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.

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TechCrunch India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content

Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.

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TechCrunch Amazon makes it easier to buy what you see on Prime Video

Amazon is expanding shopping integrations across Prime Video, letting viewers discover products tied to thousands of shows, movies...

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TechCrunch Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you

Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.

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TechCrunch Proxima Fusion bets €140M on a critical fusion ingredient dominated by Asian suppliers

Proxima Fusion said Wednesday it plans to build a €140 million ($162.6 million) factory to produce fusion-grade high-temperature s...

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TechCabal After 3,000 catfish died overnight, she turned to AI to protect her mother’s farm

Ukachi Benita built Aquamanne, a fish-pond monitoring tool designed to track water conditions and alert farmers when something cha...

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TechCrunch Instagram’s latest feature lets you add tagged posts to your profile grid

Instagram's newest feature lets users take posts from the Tagged tab and move it to their main profile grid instead.

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TechCrunch AI agents are flooding public services with new requests

“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher t...

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TechCrunch The Boring Company raises $3B in round led by UAE

The company said it plans to dig more than 150 kilometers of tunnels in the Middle Eastern country.

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