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X Just Built a Marketplace for Apps Made on Its Platform — and Developers Get a Cut of the Revenue
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X Just Built a Marketplace for Apps Made on Its Platform — and Developers Get a Cut of the Revenue

After years of making life harder for developers — killing free API access, raising prices, shutting down third-party apps — X is making a sharp U-turn. The platform just launched Developer Exhibit, a public showcase where developers can list their X-powered apps, drive traffic, and earn revenue. It's the most developer-friendly thing X has done in years. Here's what it is, how it works, and what it means if you build on social platforms for a living.

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A Nairobi Startup Just Ran Production AI on a $5 Server and It Changes Everything We Thought We Knew
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A Nairobi Startup Just Ran Production AI on a $5 Server and It Changes Everything We Thought We Knew

The received wisdom in the AI world is that serious artificial intelligence requires serious money, expensive GPUs, massive data centres, and a power bill that would make your eyes water. A Nairobi startup called Aphorion Labs just challenged all of that by running a production-grade AI database on a Raspberry Pi and a five-dollar server. Here's why that matters way beyond a clever engineering trick.

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Elon Musk's Journey to a Trillion-Dollar Fortune: How SpaceX's Historic IPO Changed Business History
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Elon Musk's Journey to a Trillion-Dollar Fortune: How SpaceX's Historic IPO Changed Business History

Elon Musk has reached a milestone few thought possible. Following SpaceX's record-breaking public debut, the entrepreneur behind Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, and X is widely reported to have become the world's first trillionaire. Here's a look at the decades-long journey that led to one of the most remarkable wealth-creation stories in modern business history.

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Meta's AI-Powered Smart Glasses Could Shape the Future of Military Technology
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Meta's AI-Powered Smart Glasses Could Shape the Future of Military Technology

Meta's growing investment in artificial intelligence and wearable technology has sparked discussions about how smart glasses could eventually support military and defense applications. While no consumer product has been announced specifically for soldiers, advances in augmented reality, AI assistants, and real-time data visualization suggest that the battlefield technologies of tomorrow may look very different from those of today

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China Just Beat Neuralink to the World's First Commercially Approved Brain Chip
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China Just Beat Neuralink to the World's First Commercially Approved Brain Chip

A Shanghai startup called Neuracle Technology has quietly made history and most people barely noticed. In March 2026, China became the first country in the world to commercially approve an invasive brain-computer interface, a coin-sized implant called NEO that is already helping paralyzed patients write, grab objects, and reclaim fragments of their independence. Here's what it means and why it matters far beyond the US-China tech rivalry.

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X Just Made Itself Readable by AI
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X Just Made Itself Readable by AI

On June 30, X launched an official hosted MCP server — opening over 200 of its API endpoints directly to AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Grok without any infrastructure setup required. You can now point an AI agent at X's entire platform and have it post, search, read timelines, manage bookmarks, and look up profiles on your behalf. This isn't a developer convenience feature. It's X repositioning itself as the first major social platform designed to be consumed by AI agents as much as humans — and it may be the most strategically significant thing Musk has done with X since buying it.

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WhatsApp Is Finally Letting You Hide Your Phone Number - WhatsApp introduces usernames
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WhatsApp Is Finally Letting You Hide Your Phone Number - WhatsApp introduces usernames

After years of anticipation, WhatsApp confirmed today that usernames are officially coming — a feature that lets over three billion users connect without ever revealing their phone number. Reservations open this week, the full rollout begins July 7, and the rules for choosing your handle are stricter than you'd think. Here's everything that's confirmed, what changes for you, and what it means if you run a business on WhatsApp.

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Elon Musk Just Launched X Money
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Elon Musk Just Launched X Money

After months of regulatory groundwork, beta testing, and congressional scrutiny, X Money is officially live. It launched to US Premium+ subscribers on June 25, 2026, with a 6% annual yield on deposits, a metal Visa debit card, peer-to-peer transfers, and FDIC insurance up to $10 million. The proof of concept arrived fast: a user sent $25 directly to Elon Musk within hours of launch — and Musk confirmed it publicly. Here's everything that's in it, how it actually works, and why it's a much bigger deal than another fintech app.

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Africa's Startups Just Posted Their Best Funding Quarter in Years — But the Money Isn't Going Where You'd Expect
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Africa's Startups Just Posted Their Best Funding Quarter in Years — But the Money Isn't Going Where You'd Expect

African tech startups raised $920 million in the first half of 2026, already outpacing the same period last year. But look closer at where that capital actually went, and a more interesting story emerges — one about debt replacing equity, four countries dominating everything, and a continent's startups quietly maturing past the hype-growth phase that defined the last decade.

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Kenya Is About to Pass an AI Law: and Every Startup, Developer and Tech Business Needs to Know What's In It
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Kenya Is About to Pass an AI Law: and Every Startup, Developer and Tech Business Needs to Know What's In It

Kenya has tabled the Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026 in the Senate, and depending on who you ask, it's either the most important piece of tech legislation the country has ever written, or a regulation so ambitious it could slow down the very ecosystem it's trying to protect. Here's exactly what's in it, who it affects, and what it means if you build, deploy, or use AI in Kenya.

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Huawei Just Launched HarmonyOS 7 and It's the Most Serious Challenge to Android and iOS Yet
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Huawei Just Launched HarmonyOS 7 and It's the Most Serious Challenge to Android and iOS Yet

On June 12, 2026, Huawei took the stage at its annual developer conference and did something that would have seemed far-fetched five years ago: it unveiled an operating system that doesn't just compete with Android and iOS — it reimagines what a mobile OS is supposed to do. HarmonyOS 7 isn't an update. It's a different philosophy. Here's what changed, what it means, and why the rest of the tech world should be paying attention.

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Jeff Bezos Just Filed to Build Kenya's First Amazon Satellite Station, and Starlink Should Be Worried
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Jeff Bezos Just Filed to Build Kenya's First Amazon Satellite Station, and Starlink Should Be Worried

Amazon has officially applied to plant its first satellite ground station in Africa right here in Kenya. The paperwork is in. The subsidiary is registered. And when it goes live, every Kenyan with a satellite dish is going to have a choice they didn't have before. Here's what's happening, why Kenya was picked first, and what it could mean for internet access in a country that's already moving faster than most people realize.

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