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Nairobi, Kenya
Joined November 2013
TechMoran retweeted
Bloomberg
@business8h
A Tanzanian critic of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government has been abducted by unknown people in neighboring Kenya, bringing to three such attacks in the East African nation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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⚠️ Beware of AI-powered scam ads. Fraudsters are using AI-generated videos, cloned voices and fake endorsements to make fraudulent offers look legitimate. Don’t trust an ad simply because it features a familiar face or sounds convincing. Verify before you click, pay or share personal information. Think critically. Verify independently. Stay safe online. Report any fraudulent ads to @SafaricomPLC Or @Safaricom_Care #CyberSecurity #AISafety
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Nzola Miranda, Managing Director of MultiChoice Kenya, explains why @DStv chose this moment to rethink its packages after 30 years in Kenya. #ExpectMoreOnDstv #MoreIsComing #MoreForYou #Tumewaskiza
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Rise. The people who doubted you are already comfortable. Stay uncomfortable.
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Today, we're announcing that Sundial has been acquired by @Meta!  Chandra Narayanan and I are joining along with some other incredible members of our team.  Nearly six years ago, Chandra and I started Sundial with two core beliefs: 1) better decisions come from using data well, and 2) great things come from working on hard problems with people you like. Sundial automated away many of the obstacles involved in getting to meaningful analysis (Cleaning data! Creating semantic layers! Writing SQL! Storytelling!), and we were proud to support some of the fastest-growing AI companies from OpenAI to Gamma. We started before the AI wave and rebuilt ourselves to be AI-native. We raised our first round when interest rates were near zero, and our Series A when they were the highest in two decades. We watched customers hyperscale and then close shop, new grads grow into leaders, and software development change completely.  Entrepreneurship has been my dream since college, when I first took a class on start-ups (shoutout Mayfield Fellows!). I wish I'd been brave enough sooner because there’s no better way to learn how the world works and who you really are than betting on yourself to launch a business. Meta is my former home and where I learned product and design. It's also one of the most analytically rigorous places on the planet. So many of Sundial's values came from there: questioning assumptions, diagnosing with data, owning the user’s experience. I'm thrilled to bring what we've learned to the place where it all started and continue our mission of improving the quality and velocity of business decisions with people we like. To Team Sundial past and present, THANK YOU thank you thank you. You created that special feeling within our team, and I bask in the memories of having walked those lush miles and eaten those breakfast dosas with you. To our investors and supporters especially @dpatil, David Fischer + the whole 01A advisors team, @mvernal, @sequoia: how did we get so lucky to have your counsel and support? And to my beloved @mikesego and kiddos: I could not have made it without you.   These have been some of the hardest, most humbling, and most alive years of my life. I hope I'm wiser for it and will have many chances to pay it forward!  axios.com/2026/10/23/meta-ai…
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Layoff Announcements in 2026: 1. UPS: 30,000 Employees 2. Oracle: 30,000 Employees 3. Amazon: 16,000 Employees 4. Omnicom: 15,000 Employees 5. Meta: 8,000 Employees 6. Microsoft: 4,800 Employees 7. Dow Chemical: 4,500 Employees 8. Cisco: Fewer Than 4,000 Employees 9. American Express: 3,840 Employees 10. Uber: 3,300 Employees 11. Renault: Up to 2,400 Employees 12. Nike: 1,400 Employees 13. General Motors: 1,300 Employees 14. Disney: 1,000 Employees 15. Citigroup: 1,000 Employees The tech sector alone has seen 135,000 layoffs so far in 2026 across 330 companies. Amid rising prices and AI adoption, US corporations are looking reduce expenses and increase efficiency. Keep watching the labor market.
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Ben Lamm, of de-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences, has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited. Read more: forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/… 📸: John Davidson
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TechMoran retweeted
Ragavan Thurairatnam
@RagavanThurairOct 23
Meet Dessa, our AI model trained from scratch on nothing but speech. We believe speech is the natural interface for technology. So we built Dessa. And we’re inviting AI safety researchers to explore Dessa. Learn more: block.xyz/dessa
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TechMoran retweeted
Reuters
@ReutersOct 23
Business owners in Paris installed wooden boards and metal barriers on their store windows ahead of another weekend of protests. Last weekend's demonstrations descended into violence and shops were looted reut.rs/489ITEl
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TechMoran retweeted
Polymarket
@PolymarketOct 23
BREAKING: China orders government agencies to develop plans to combat mass job displacement from AI.
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We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence. block.xyz/dessa
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TechMoran retweeted
Bloomberg
@businessOct 23
Moonshot AI, the Chinese upstart that had its own DeepSeek moment over the summer, released the first major upgrade to the seminal model that thrust the $50 billion company into the frontier bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Polymarket
@PolymarketOct 23
JUST IN: Airbnb hosts threaten to strike after the company bans them from forcing guests to wash dishes, strip beds, or take out trash before checkout.
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TechMoran retweeted
Polymarket
@PolymarketOct 23
BREAKING: Scientists develop technology that allows people to digitally transmit smells across the world, potentially bringing scent to phone calls, video chats, & social media.
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Zuckerberg wanted to cash out his Meta stock AND keep absolute control. His own board said no. Directors discussed RESIGNING as he pushed for a Musk-style pay plan and threatened to leave California, even telling them he’d list his Palo Alto home days later. He settled for staying eight years. At a $1.7 trillion company, shareholders’ last line of defense was a few directors willing to walk. washingtonpost.com/technolog… #BlueSky #MedSky #LawSky #press #Meta #Zuckerberg #AI #BigTech #CorporateGovernance #Billionaires
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TechMoran retweeted
Polymarket
@PolymarketOct 23
JUST IN: Palmer Luckey's genetically modified military dog startup, Warhound, comes out of stealth, aiming to create enhanced canines for the U.S. military.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is NOT Palmer's company at all, his company Anduril is only supplying the tech for the dogs, and this is a wholly owed Collosal entiity x.com/palmerluckey/s…
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Polymarket
@PolymarketOct 23
JUST IN: UK police arrest 15 y/o boy, seize his devices, & collect his DNA after he posted photo of a local politician edited to look like a rabbit.
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At the heart of the digital services our customers and businesses rely on is the Safaricom Data Centre in Thika. It house our critical infrastructure, data systems and dedicated teams, who work behind the scenes to support secure, reliable and resilient services every day. #SafaricomPopoteUlipo
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TechMoran retweeted
Reuters
@ReutersOct 23
Apple's foldable iPhone hits stores with $2,000 price tag and scarce supply reut.rs/3W05fpi reut.rs/3W05fpi
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TechMoran retweeted
Reuters
@ReutersOct 23
Barclays said it is cutting around 5,000 jobs or 5% of its workforce this year, as it uses technology such as AI to slash fixed costs and improve returns. Lawrence White has more reut.rs/4yHt6aT
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