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TechCrunch Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

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TechCrunch Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B

Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.

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TechCrunch Reddit begins testing a new audio and video experience, similar to popular TikTok videos

Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit stories instead...

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TechCrunch AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jac...

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TechCrunch ‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators

Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Appl...

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TechCrunch Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of...

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TechCrunch Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks

Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite music. Editors...

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TechCrunch Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvid...

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TechCrunch Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic

Sonic Fire Tech raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitche...

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TechCrunch YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

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TechCrunch Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot

Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while complaints a...

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TechCrunch Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

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TechCabal Nigerians are returning to ATMs as PoS transactions fall 20%

After years of losing ground to Point-of-Sale (PoS) agents, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) are making a comeback as transaction...

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TechCabal Africa is building a single payments market but its currencies remain divided

Africa is building regional payment systems that could make cross-border money transfers faster and cheaper, but its fragmented cu...

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TechCabal Oui Capital’s Olu Oyinsan on why African VC remains in an existential crisis

Oui Capital would have returned twice the size of its first fund even without Moniepoint, but its general partner still thinks Afr...

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TechCrunch Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

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TechCrunch Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South

African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 milli...

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TechCrunch WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan

WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plug-in support, and professional website-building tools.

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TechCrunch Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network

Uber is also making investing in Zipline a part of the tie-up.

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TechCrunch Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

The funds will allow Wispr to increase its footprint as it ventures into new areas, such as meetings, with its newly released note...

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TechCrunch Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts

The hacks at shipping companies used to mail out hardware wallets puts crypto owners at greater risk of real-world attacks.

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TechCabal Nigeria is not trying to stop crypto. It wants to know where the money goes.

If it plays its cards right, Nigeria could still become West Africa’s most important regulated digital asset market, attracting of...

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TechCabal Defence-tech startup Terra Industries closes seed round at $52 million

Terra Industries has raised an additional $18 million, closing Africa’s largest seed round at $52 million.

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TechCabal Next Wave: The next media business will be a strange one

The Internet may finally be forcing publishers to answer a question they have been able to avoid for years: what, exactly, are peo...

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