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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 ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver’s licenses stolen

The ID checking company said the data breach included people's full names and driver's licenses and other government-issued identi...

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TechCrunch Google signs its biggest rice-methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup Mitti Labs

The four-year agreement will cover rice farms across three Indian states, reaching about 100,000 hectares at peak delivery.

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TechCrunch Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal

Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.

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TechCrunch Bending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuation

Bending Spoons is buying Miro for $1.36 billion, a huge dip in valuation for the workplace collaboration startup, which was valued...

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TechCabal How PressOne turned fast customer growth into a profitable cloud-telephony business

The core value proposition was simple: a small business with four, five, or ten employees should be able to run a professional pho...

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TechCabal iPhone 18 Pro: Price, release date, specs and features

Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro on Wednesday, with prices starting at $1,199 in the US, and it lands in stores on September 18.

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TechCabal South Africa is rebuilding the machinery behind its payments system

At a Standard Bank roundtable in Johannesburg on Wednesday, three payments executives outlined how new regulations, richer payment...

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TechCrunch European founders and VCs urge lawmakers ‘to get EU Inc right’

Amid negotiations for a new EU-wide corporate status, an open letter signed by unicorn founders and investors warns that 'EU Inc.'...

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TechCrunch US Army places $11M bet on Austin-based GPS alternative Tern

Tern has described its tech as "Google Maps for the battlefield."

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TechCabal Are we raising kids who can’t think without an AI prompt?

Many conversations focus on what AI can do for students, teachers, and schools. For Africa, where access to quality education in r...

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TechCrunch Snapchat takes aim at Partiful with new event-planning features

Snapchat says the new features can be used to organize everything from birthday celebrations and sporting events to study sessions...

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TechCrunch Defense tech Mach Industries doubles valuation to $3.7B in 3 months

The buzzy startup raised another $600 million in a Series C extension round, bringing the total of the round to $900 million.

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – MTN scores a century

In today's edition: MTN Nigeria crosses 100 million subscribers || Uber says Kenya remains an important market || Terra secures $2...

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TechCabal iPhone Duo: Price, release date, specs, and features

Table of contents Key specs Release date Price and storage Specs iPhone Duo vs Galaxy Z Fold 8 What Apple has not said about the i...

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TechCabal Can PAPSS overcome regulatory hurdles to transform intra-African payments?

Since launching in January 2022, PAPSS says it currently connects 30 African countries, 24 central banks, about 200 financial inst...

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TechCrunch AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.

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TechCrunch Automattic’s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

Mullenweg said in a company Slack message that it was against his will.

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TechCrunch OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.

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TechCrunch There are new shiny iPhones, so Apple is making you pay more for older models

Apple is raising the price of its existing iPhone models by $100, including iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air.

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TechCrunch Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch

The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.

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TechCrunch The hinge for Apple’s new foldable phone was built with AI

Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.

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TechCrunch Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening

Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversation...

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TechCrunch Apple’s new CEO is reviving a Steve Jobs strategy from 25 years ago

John Ternus made the case in his first keynote as Apple CEO that the iPhone isn't going anywhere.

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