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TechCrunch Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine

Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.

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TechCrunch Autonomy pivots to gas vehicles to keep the dream of car subscriptions alive

Scott Painter, founder of TrueCar, is still trying to build a business around vehicle subscriptions, where you can cancel at any t...

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TechCrunch Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks

Cymphony was valued at more than $100 million in a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund.

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TechCrunch Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time

If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the Internat...

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TechCrunch Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up

As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous ver...

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TechCabal Africa doesn’t need to build the next ChatGPT to win the AI race

Africa’s AI opportunity may lie beyond chatbots, with AI transforming mining, business processes and other industries that power i...

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TechCabal dLocal Ghana secures enhanced payments licence to deepen local operations

dLocal Ghana can now provide local payment collections, merchant acquisitions, mobile-money acceptance, bank-transfer collections...

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TechCabal She gave up her childhood dream of becoming a doctor to fix what doctors cannot

At 14, Dami Oyenekan watched a patient die at LASUTH, an experience that changed her dream of becoming a doctor and led her to hea...

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TechCrunch Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid

Fusionality is developing control systems and simulation environments to help fusion power startups move faster.

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – ‘How to licence data centres’

In today's edition: Kenya to licence data centre operators || Leila Fourie to join Vodacom board || Global payout options are shri...

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TechCrunch CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pressing bottlenecks

UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced Wednesday a $20 million B extension round, bringing its lifetime total r...

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TechCrunch The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceX

The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as “the largest-ever Seri...

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TechCrunch White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the Tetris Company complains

The Trump administration's short-lived arcade game "Build the Wall" is now nowhere to be found after the Tetris Company posted tha...

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TechCrunch Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users...

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TechCrunch Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.

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TechCrunch How to watch Apple’s foldable iPhone announcement

Apple's annual iPhone event will stream live on September 9 at 10 a.m. PDT, and we're expecting big news.

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TechCrunch OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

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TechCrunch Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?

Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the compan...

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TechCabal This AI research company wants to put 1,000 African languages into AI

African Languages Lab has spent years building data for underrepresented African languages. Now, its Mansa AI platform brings 30 l...

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TechCrunch Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal

Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome d...

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TechCrunch Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government

Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now the plant's owner is getting a $1.9 billion loan fr...

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TechCrunch Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape

Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.

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TechCrunch Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business

The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe, and PSG Equ...

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TechCrunch Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch

Bluecore Energy announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $50 million seed round — just months after raising a $10 million pre-seed and...

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