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Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-27 India Google Apple

Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locations (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-25 5G

LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140 (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-25 LinkedIn

Series, founded by two seniors at Yale to build an AI-powered social network on iMessage, raised a $5.1M pre-seed from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-25 AI Reddit

ComfyUI, which gives creators granular control over image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models, raised $30M at a $500M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-25

Manila-based Salmon, a consumer finance app targeting underbanked Filipinos, raised $60M in equity and $40M in debt; it raised $310M to date, $160M in equity (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-24 Equity

Vercel says some customer accounts were compromised prior to its early-April breach, potentially through social engineering, malware, or other methods (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-24

WhatsApp partners with PayU to roll out prepaid mobile recharges in India; it remains a marginal payments player in India despite launching payments in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-24 India Mobile WhatsApp

Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools, including metered paywalls, letting creators host webinars for up to 10,000 people, AI analytics, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-23 AI

Apple fixes a bug that stored notifications for deleted messages on iPhone and iPad, following a report that police used it to extract deleted Signal messages (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-23 iPhone Apple iPad

Sensor Tower: India's mobile app IAP revenue crossed $300M in Q1, up 33% YoY, with non-gaming apps generating $200M+, much of it captured by global platforms (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-23 India Mobile Sensor

Meta unveils Live Chats on Threads for real-time conversations during cultural events, launching first within the NBA Threads community during the playoffs (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-23

Source: Mira Murati's TML signed a deal with Google Cloud, valued in single-digit billions, to access Google's latest AI systems built on Nvidia's GB300 chips (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-22 Google AI Nvidia

The US DOJ says a former ransomware negotiator pleaded guilty to helping cybercriminals extort companies in cyberattacks in five different incidents (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-22

NeoCognition, which wants to build AI agents that self-learn like humans, emerges from stealth with a $40M seed co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-22 AI

OpenAI says that ChatGPT Images 2.0 has a stronger understanding of non-Latin text rendering in languages like Japanese, Korean, Hindi, and Bengali (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-22 Japan Korea

WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp Plus, which includes features like expanded pinned chats, custom lists, and new chat themes (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-21 WhatsApp

Deezer says AI-generated tracks now account for 44% of daily uploads, totaling ~75K tracks per day and 2M+ per month, but account for just 1-3% of consumption (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-21 AI

Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, advocating for hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, and denouncing pluralism, and “regressive” cultures (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-20 AI

Tesla expands its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston after launching in Austin last year and starting to offer rides without safety drivers in January 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-19 Tesla

Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-19 Google AI

Bill Peebles, the researcher behind Sora, is leaving OpenAI as the company consolidates around enterprise AI and its forthcoming “superapp” (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-18 AI

Netflix plans to launch a vertical video feed, to help with content discovery, this month, and plans to use AI for content creation and recommendations (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-18 AI Netflix

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-18

Bluesky says a sophisticated DDoS attack is to blame for continued app outages but it has not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private data (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-18

Loop, which uses AI to predict supply chain disruptions, raised a $95M Series C co-led by Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17 AI Equity

Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an “early sign” of generalization, surprising researchers (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17 Robot Intelligence

Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; users can search across multiple tabs on desktop and mobile (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17 Google Mobile AI Chrome

DeepL, best known for its text translation tools, launches DeepL Voice-to-Voice, which enables real-time spoken translation, with add-ons for services like Zoom (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17

Google's 2025 Ads Safety Report: Google blocked a record 8.3B ads, up 63% YoY, but suspended 36% fewer advertisers, attributing the disparity to its use of AI (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17 Google AI

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