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Anthropic Publicly Files for IPO as Claude Costs Face Scrutiny
The maker of Claude said on Monday, 26 October, that it had filed a public registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a...
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Meta Seeks Up to $95B in Equity to Fund AI Expansion
The Facebook and Instagram owner announced on Monday, 26 October, a financing plan that could reach $95 billion. It has launched approximately $35 billion in public offerings...
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Klump Shuts Down as Funding and Bank Delays Stall Nigerian BNPL
Klump, the Nigerian buy-now-pay-later startup that offered instalment payments at checkout for merchants including Jumia and Konga, is shutting down after five years.
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Airtel Money Revenue Hits $830M in First Results Since London IPO
Airtel Money has reported $830 million in revenue for the six months to 30 September 2026, its first results since joining the London Stock Exchange.
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TechBooky Intelligence Launches With a New Look at Africa’s Tech Economy
TechBooky is launching TechBooky Intelligence to make those differences easier to see, question and explain. The new, open-to-all research collection begins...
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Canva Builds Its Own Image Model With Craft Launch
Canva has launched Craft, its first image-generation model built from scratch by its own research team. It is available through Canva’s Dream Lab and a public API, moving the c...
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OpenAI Decisions API Targets Faster, Cheaper Agent Workflows
OpenAI has made its Decisions API generally available, offering developers a model designed to answer small, bounded questions quickly rather than generate a long resp...
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Rwanda Enlists MTN and Airtel to Train Cybersecurity Talent
Rwanda’s National Cyber Security Authority has signed agreements with MTN Rwanda and Airtel Rwanda to expand training, internships and early-career opportunities throug...
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1Password Gives AI Agents Access Without Sharing Passwords
1Password for Agents, announced on Thursday, is designed to let an agent sign in to a service without seeing or storing the credential itself.
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Tesla-SpaceX Merger Could Create a $3.5T Giant and Overtake Amazon
A merger between Tesla and SpaceX would not merely unite two of Elon Musk’s best-known businesses. At recent market prices, it could produce a company valued at...
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MNT-Halan Begins Trading After EGP7.84B Egypt IPO
MNT-Halan’s Egyptian business has begun trading on the Egyptian Exchange, turning one of Africa’s closely watched fintech listings from a planned share sale into a public-market...
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Tesla and SpaceX Form Committees to Explore a Merger
Tesla and SpaceX have taken their long-rumoured merger discussions a step further. Elon Musk said on Tuesday, 20 October, that both companies had formed special combination...
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India Smartphone Shipments Fall 26% as Samsung Retakes Lead
Manufacturers sent 35.8 million phones into the country in the third quarter of 2026, down 26% from a year earlier, according to figures published by Omdia...
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PHP Warns of Two Critical Flaws Ahead of Emergency Fixes
The PHP security team has given website operators advance warning of an unusually urgent update. Two critical vulnerabilities are due to be addressed in a release s...
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TikTok Staff Child Safety Warnings Surface in Court Records
TikTok employees warned managers about child safety risks on the platform, according to depositions reviewed by NPR. The testimony, taken in March 2026 in a US federal...
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Otter.ai Gets $320M in Repayable Funding for Enterprise Push
Otter.ai has secured $320 million from General Catalyst to push its AI meeting assistant deeper into corporate work.
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Reliable Robotics Raises $115M, but Pilotless Flight Awaits FAA
Reliable Robotics has secured $115 million in new capital as it works to bring automated flight technology through the US certification process.
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Chinese Tech Giants Order Over $35B in Nvidia Chips, Report Says
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have placed orders for more than three million Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards, with a combined sticker value exceeding $35 billio...
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US Orders Federal Agencies to Remove DeepSeek AI
The US government is moving to remove DeepSeek technology from federal civilian agency systems, extending its restrictions beyond the Chinese AI company’s own products to some...
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