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Kigali fintech Kayko has closed a $1.2 million seed round to scale a micro-ERP product that turns informal merchants’ daily activity into the kind of digital evidence banks need to lend.

The United States is overhauling its H-1B visa system, ending the traditional random lottery and introducing a weighted selection process that favors higher-paid, highly skilled foreign workers.

Gold climbed above $4,500 an ounce for the first time in history on Wednesday, driven by escalating geopolitical tensions in Venezuela and expectations of further U.S. interest rate cuts.

While Mayer is not yet sharing specifics about Dazzle’s functionality, she has revealed that the new company has raised an $8 million seed round at a $35 million valuation.

The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday.

Groq said in a blog post on Wednesday that it's "entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia for Groq's inference technology," without disclosing a price.

France's President Emmanuel Macron has previously acknowledged the colonisation of Algeria was a "crime against humanity" but has not offered an apology.

Deeptech startup Naxatra Labs has raised $3 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by Rainmatter, with participation from a group of founders, operators, and angel investors.