OpenAI has a livestreamed announcement planned for 10 a.m. PT today — but it’s trying to keep expectations under control. The company is describing the event...
Many businesses are implementing AI and reaping multiple benefits. From automating repetitive tasks to personalizing customer experiences, AI is transforming how companies operate. But for businesses...
Developers season has officially commenced, and we’re just one day away from Google I/O 2024. The short answer to the question of what to expect is...
Google I/O 2024 kicks off tomorrow with a 10 a.m. PT keynote. As ever, the presentation will offer glimpses into the latest versions of the company’s...
Buy-now-pay-later services have become so ubiquitous that BNPL may as well just be another way to say ‘debt.’ But in Mexico, where BNPL platform Aplazo operates,...
Tanzania’s Central Bank will no longer allow unlicensed digital lenders to operate in the country and has told customers to look out for valid licenses before...
We received countless submissions to speak at this year’s Disrupt 2024. After carefully sifting through all the applications, we’ve narrowed it down to 19 session finalists....
The Apple AirPods Max are premium headphones in every way which means they typically command a premium price tag. Not today though, as you can currently...
AI-powered tools like OpenAI’s Whisper have enabled many apps to make transcription an integral part of their feature set for personal note-taking, and the space has...
Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, said on Monday it has entered into a long-term partnership with Google Cloud to develop and deliver cloud and generative AI...
Airtel Nigeria’s SmartCash Payment Service Bank (PSB) recorded 1.5 million active users at the end of March 2024. The parent company, Airtel Africa, disclosed this in...
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable...
Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating experience. During an onstage...
Many cities around the world are facing a congestion crisis – and where governments and local authorities have seen fit to curb emissions from CO2-belching tailpipes,...
Groupe Special Mobile Association (GSMA), the umbrella body of mobile operators globally, has said that only 29% of Nigerians have regular access to mobile internet, leaving...
The U.K. Safety Institute, the U.K.’s recently established AI safety body, has released a toolset designed to “strengthen AI safety” by making it easier for industry,...
In the third episode of “Creative Dialogues,” an interview series produced by the filmmaking division of generative AI startup Runway, multimedia artist Claire Hentschker expresses a...
Before we were obsessed with AI, the world was mesmerized by Aibo, a robotic dog whose name was short for “artificial intelligence robot” and also had...
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable...
Apple Inc. is reportedly finalizing an agreement with OpenAI to integrate the startup’s technology into the iPhone, marking a significant move to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI)...
Apple Inc. is reportedly finalizing an agreement with OpenAI to integrate the startup’s technology into the iPhone, marking a significant move to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI)...
We’re getting into the busy tech season, folks. Apple had its massive 2024 iPad event this week, Google I/O 2024 is coming next week, and there...
Experts are expected to examine the roles of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a digital economy. The experts, who will converge at this year’s Africa’s Beacon of...
Apple just launched the iPad Air 6 earlier this week, which means there are some fantastic deals on older model iPads, like the iPad Air 5....
OpenAI has a livestreamed announcement planned for 10 a.m. PT on Monday — but it’s trying to keep expectations under control. The company is describing the...
Consumer demand for mobile AI chatbot apps outside of ChatGPT may be waning. Earlier this month, Anthropic launched its first mobile app on iOS, providing access...
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said that 107.33 million Nigerians have been enrolled into the National Identification Number (NIN) database as of May 2023. This is...
AI startup Anthropic is changing its policies to allow minors to use its generative AI systems — in certain circumstances, at least. Announced in a post...
The Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has advised the federal government not to use the telecoms sector as a palliative to solve the...
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent...
CoreWeave isn’t hanging around. Hot on the heels of a mega funding round valuing the GPU cloud company at a reported $19 billion, the New Jersey...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Nokia Solutions and Networks Nigeria, to train young Nigerians on the latest...
Music streaming platform, Spotify, has said it paid over N25 billion in streaming royalties to Nigerian artists in 2023. The company disclosed this in its annual...
TabaPay has abandoned its plans to purchase the assets of troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse, TabaPay confirmed to TechCrunch today. Synapse says the problem is banking partner...
The event kicks off Tuesday May 14 at 10AM PT MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – MAY 08: Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the...
For cancer patients, medicines administered in clinical trials can help save or extend lives. But despite thousands of trials in the United States each year, only...
Reddit on Thursday is rolling out a new policy aimed at balancing its desire to license its content to larger tech companies, like Google, and protecting...
Temitope Ajayi, senior special assistant to President Bola Tinubu on media and publicity, has denied reports that American technology company, Microsoft, is shutting down its operations...
How does Amazon CTO Werner Vogels — a man worth untold millions, who during the COVID-19 pandemic bought outright the small Central Amsterdam Airbnb he’d been...
Volkswagen has revealed all about its latest California camper van model, which is now based on the long wheelbase version of the excellent Multivan, meaning it...
Developers season has officially commenced, and we’re mere days away from Google I/O 2024. The short answer to the question of what to expect is two...
Groww, an Indian investment app, has become one of the first startups from the country to shift its domicile back to India from the U.S., signaling...
Surveys have been used to gain insights on populations, products and public opinion since time immemorial. And while methodologies might have changed through the millennia, one...
Elon Musk’s brain technology, Neuralink, has said that the device implanted in its first patient malfunctioned weeks after the surgery. The company disclosed this on Thursday...
Google has announced the opening of applications for the 2024 cohort of its Hustle Academy, a programme dedicated to accelerating the growth of small and medium-sized...
Call centers are embracing automation. There’s debate as to whether that’s a good thing, but it’s happening — and quite possibly accelerating. According to research firm...
TikTok is starting to automatically label AI-generated content that was made on other platforms, the company announced on Thursday. With this change, if a creator posts...
India’s mobile payments regulator is likely to extend the deadline for imposing market share caps on the popular UPI payments rail by one to two years,...
The Association of Capital Market Academics of Nigeria (ACMAN) has expressed its concern regarding the timing of the proposed 0.5% cybersecurity levy introduced by the Central Bank of...
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria on Tuesday warned that Artificial Intelligence (AI), as good as it may be, should be a tool for empowerment and...
Ever wonder why conversational AI like ChatGPT says “Sorry, I can’t do that” or some other polite refusal? OpenAI is offering a limited look at the...
The African Union (AU) has suggested that to attain sustainable development globally, developing countries should have increased representation and influence within global Artificial Intelligence(AI) governance structures....
Apple’s iPad event had a lot to like. New iPads with new chips and new sizes, a new Apple Pencil, and even some software updates. If...
Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of...
Good news, crypto founders: Venture capital activity is picking up in your sector after falling to multi-year lows in late 2023. Put another way, venture folks...
Google Deepmind has taken the wraps off a new version AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavior of proteins. AlphaFold 3...
We’ve all seen them. The inspector with a clipboard, walking around a building, ticking off the last time the fire extinguishers were checked, or if all...
Close to a decade ago, brothers Aviv and Matteo Shapira co-founded Replay, a company that created a video format for 360-degree replays — the sorts of...
Monzo has raised another £150 million ($190 million), as the challenger bank looks to expand its presence internationally — particularly in the U.S. The new round...
High interest rates and financial pressures make it more important than ever for finance teams to have a better handle on their cash flow, and several...
High interest rates and financial pressures make it more important than ever for finance teams to have a better handle on their cash flow, and several...
It is estimated that about 2 billion people, especially those in lower and middle-income countries, lack access to quality and affordable essential medicines. The situation is...
The 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) exams recently ended and candidates can now check their UTME results. Many students would be looking to undergo...
Tech giant, Microsoft, and ChatGPT maker, OpenAI, have launched a $2 million Societal Resilience Fund to tackle AI misinformation and educate people around the world on...
Samsung Medison, a medical device unit of Samsung Electronics that specializes in developing diagnostic imaging devices, said on Wednesday it plans to acquire Sonio, a Paris-based...
Ofcom is cracking down on Instagram, YouTube and 150,000 other web services to improve child safety online. A new Children’s Safety Code from the U.K. Internet...
Meta is rolling out an expanded set of generative AI tools for advertisers, after first announcing a set of AI features last October. Now, instead of...
Robert Kahn has been a consistent presence on the Internet since its creation — obviously, since he was its co-creator. But like many tech pioneers his...
Amazon is launching a new tool, Bedrock Studio, designed to let organizations experiment with generative AI models, collaborate on those models, and ultimately build generative AI-powered...
TikTok has taken a bold step by filing a lawsuit against the US government, marking the first challenge to a new law that mandates Chinese parent...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Mercury’s latest expansions, wallet-as-a-service startup Ansa’s raise and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released vital information regarding JAMB results 2024 updates. In a recent post via their official X (formerly Twitter)...
AI is coming for audiobooks, and that is not an entirely bad thing. But it is a cause of concern in the realm of audio titles...
Apple isn’t yet ready to unveil its broader AI strategy — it’s saving that for its Worldwide Developer Conference in June — but the tech giant...
Chipper Cash, a pan-African fintech startup, has resumed operations in the US after a two-month pause, and after a restructuring exercise that saw the company remove...
The United States has announced that it plans to deploy a cybercrime advisor in Nigeria. The advisor is poised to facilitate cooperation between the two nations,...
OpenAI says it’s developing a tool to let creators better control how their content is used in AI. Called Media Manager, the tool — once it’s...
Interest in male birth control has increased in the past few years, especially since the U.S. overturned Roe vs. Wade, which protected a woman’s right to...
Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale “alphabet” with the aid of machine learning technologies. Results...
Many students interested in pursuing higher education in Nigeria consider the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) pathways. UTME conversion to DE 2024...
While taking a long road trip across the U.S. years ago, Sanish Mondkar realized that there were stark, problematic disconnects between employers and the staff they...
We’re still well over a month out from WWDC, but Apple went ahead and snuck in another event. Today, at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET, the...
Digital banking startup Mercury is layering software onto its bank accounts, giving its business customers the ability to pay bills, invoice customers and reimburse employees, the...
Bias in AI image generators is a well-studied and well-reported phenomenon, but consumer tools continue to exhibit glaring cultural biases. The latest culprit in this area...
Thomas Li was working at Point72, the hedge fund founded by notorious investor Steve Cohen, when he realized that the financial industry relies heavily on manual...
Microsoft and OpenAI have announced a $2 million fund to combat the growing risks of AI and deepfakes being used to “deceive the voters and undermine...
When Itai Ben-Zaken’s first startup failed in 2018, the former BCG consultant and Wharton MBA spent months trying to understand what he could have done differently...
A Nigerian startup providing digital identity solutions, Seamfix, has secured $4.5 million to fund the expansion of its digital ID and credential services. The private equity...
Cards are gaining ground in Egypt, with over 30 million in circulation (prepaid cards, particularly, are seeing more use than debit and credit cards combined). This...
India’s Election Commission has issued an advisory to all political parties, urging them to refrain from using deepfakes and other forms of misinformation in their social...
In partnership with Good morning ☀️ TechCabal is launching a podcast we hope will enhance conversations and improve insight into the people in the ecosystem. Please...
President of the Africa Fintech Network (AFN), Dr. Segun Aina, has said that some of the regulatory issues facing fintechs in Nigeria are due to the...
Whether you love or hate celebrity culture, the Met Gala is an event. Those less jaded among us get to see all of the biggest stars...
Wayve, a UK-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving, has closed a $1.05 billion in Series C funding led by SoftBank...
It seems we’re all in agreement: Kendrick Lamar defeated Drake in one of the most engrossing rap battles of the decade. To add insult to injury,...
An environmental scientist, Olamide Iyanda, has underscored the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in accurately forecasting environmental changes globally. Making this assertion at a media briefing recently,...
As DocuSign reportedly explores a sale to private equity, it’s acquiring a company itself. On Monday, DocuSign announced that it’s buying Lexion, a contract workflow automation...
Nigeria may reinstate a previously suspended telecom tax and other fiscal measures as it seeks to secure a new $750 million loan from the World Bank. This is...
Nigeria may reinstate a previously suspended telecom tax and other fiscal measures as it seeks to secure a new $750 million loan from the World Bank. This is...