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  • Google Whisk, an image remixing tool, is now available in 100+ countries

    Notably, the image tools are not available in countries and regions like India, Indonesia, the EU, and the U.K.

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  • QED leads $11M investment in Nigerian fintech Raenest

    As Africa’s tech ecosystem booms, more local talent is landing remote jobs with Big Tech firms and global startups. But getting paid remains a challenge for many of these freelancers and remote workers. They struggle to open accounts that accept US dollars, with foreign employers using incompatible payment platforms, and face slow invoicing and payment […]

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  • Saudi’s BRKZ closes $17M Series A for its construction tech platform

    Construction procurement is highly fragmented, manual, and opaque, forcing contractors to juggle multiple suppliers, endure lengthy negotiations, and deal with delayed payments. In Saudi Arabia, where trillion-dollar infrastructure and real estate projects are underway, these inefficiencies are even more pronounced. To address this, BRKZ, a Riyadh-based construction tech startup, offers a tech-enabled managed marketplace that […]

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  • Trump ends legal battle over Twitter ban

    President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the company formerly known as Twitter appears to be over. Trump sued the social media platform for banning him in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, when Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. While a federal judge dismissed the suit in 2022, the then-former president’s lawyers continued to appeal. Soon […]

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  • Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test

    Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei claims DeepSeek generated sensitive bioweapons data in a safety test it ran.

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