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FCC Clears Amazon’s $11.5B Globalstar Deal, Opening Satellite-to-Phone Path The US Federal Communications Commission said on 27 October that it had approved the transfer of Globalstar’s satellite licences and roughly 25 megahert... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/fcc-clears-ama…
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Anthropic Buys One-Person Drug Startup as Claude Helps Test Rare-Disease Treatment Anthropic is moving deeper into drug development, and its most striking example is not a claim that Claude discovered a cure. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/anthropic-buys…
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SK hynix Posts Record AI Memory Profit and Sees Shortage Through 2030 SK hynix has reported a record third quarter as AI infrastructure spending drove demand for high-bandwidth memory and server products. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/sk-hynix-posts…
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Oracle Will Offer Google AI Chips as Cloud Hardware Choice Widens Oracle plans to offer Google’s Tensor Processing Units through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from 2027, giving AI customers another way to buy computing power witho... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/oracle-will-of…
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Apple Adds AI Tools to Creator Studio for Video, Music and Work The company announced on 27 October that Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro and its productivity apps will gain new editing, generative AI and automation... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/apple-adds-ai-…
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Moniepoint Restructures Engineering Teams as Roles Face Redundancy Moniepoint is reorganising its engineering and product teams as the Nigerian fintech tries to put smaller groups in charge of building and running individual pro... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/moniepoint-res…
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AMD Tests Helios AI Systems at Meta and Plans $1B Investment AMD says the first systems built on its Helios rack-scale AI platform have been installed at Meta and are undergoing testing. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/amd-tests-heli…
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Medikea Raises $1.2M to Expand Hybrid Healthcare in Tanzania Tanzanian healthtech startup Medikea has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding to expand a care model that combines online consultations with its own physical clinic... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/medikea-raises…
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Former GitHub CEO Launches Entire to Rethink AI Code Review Former GitHub chief executive Thomas Dohmke has launched Entire, a Git-compatible platform built around a problem that AI coding tools have made harder to ignore. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/former-github-…
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Apple Unveils M6 MacBook Pro With Wi-Fi 7 From $1,999 Apple has introduced a new 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by its M6 chip, giving the base professional laptop a faster CPU and GPU, Wi-Fi 7 and... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/apple-unveils-…
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Anthropic’s November IPO Could Raise $100B at $1.5T-$2T Valuation, Report Says Anthropic is reportedly aiming to float on the stock market in the week beginning 16 November, in an offering that could raise about $100 billion and... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/anthropics-nov…
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OpenAI Says Its AI Disproved a Major Computing Hypothesis OpenAI says one of its internal AI systems has produced a result that could overturn a long-standing assumption in computer science. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/openai-says-it…
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South Africa Fines FNB R1 Million Over Customer Data Failures South Africa’s Information Regulator has imposed a R1 million penalty on First National Bank after finding failures in how the bank protected and handled personal inf... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/south-africa-f…
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DPI Closes $112M Nclude Fund, 93% From African Investors DPI Venture Capital has closed its Nclude Fund at more than $112 million, giving it a larger pool of capital to back fintech and businesses that... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/dpi-closes-112…
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Dangote Refinery Is First to Deploy Honeywell Industrial AI Dangote Petroleum Refinery in Lekki will be the first site to deploy Honeywell Technologies’ Forge Plant Cognition, an industrial AI system built with Nvidia and Dell... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/dangote-refine…
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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... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/anthropic-publ…
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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... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/meta-seeks-up-…
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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. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/klump-shuts-do…
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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. Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/airtel-money-r…
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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... Tap to read more 👉 🔗techbooky.com/techbooky-inte…
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