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As YC retreats from Africa, alumni launch accelerators to fill the gap | TechCrunch

MobiKwik slashes valuation by 73% in India IPO | TechCrunch

OpenAI partners with defense company Anduril

Mira Murati Quit OpenAI. She's as Optimistic as Ever About AGI

ThredUp fashion marketplace offloads its European business, Remix | TechCrunch

From pond scum to premium skincare? Deep Blue Biotech is all in on blue-green algae to make better chemicals | TechCrunch

Cardless swipes up $30M to build a new generation of co-branded credit cards | TechCrunch

A former Orion engineer has surprisingly credible plans to fly European astronauts

Microsoft and Atom Computing combine for quantum error correction demo

Nuro expands driverless autonomous vehicle testing in push to attract customers | TechCrunch

Moonvalley wants to build more ethical video models | TechCrunch

Juna.ai wants to use AI agents to make factories more energy-efficient | TechCrunch

Legal tech startup Robin AI raises another $25 million—and what that says about the AI boom

Norwegian startup Factiverse wants to fight disinformation with AI

Elon Musk's xAI raising up to $6 billion to purchase 100,000 Nvidia chips for Memphis data center