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Truecaller slashes 70 jobs amid declining ad sales

TechCrunch · May 8, 2026

Truecaller's ad revenue declined by 44%, leading to the layoffs.

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Ethos raises $22.75M from a16z for its expert network with voice onboarding

TechCrunch · May 6, 2026

Ethos says it is onboarding 35,000 experts per week

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US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

TechCrunch · May 4, 2026

Virginia and Washington D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg's investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users' information with advertisers.

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Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack

TechCrunch · May 1, 2026

A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the Linux-based operating system.

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Apple loses bid to pause App Store fee changes as case heads to Supreme Court

TechCrunch · Apr 29, 2026

Apple lost its bid to pause court-ordered App Store payment changes, keeping external purchase links in place as its case with Epic heads toward the Supreme Court.

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What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch US software in favor of sovereign tech

TechCrunch · Apr 27, 2026

Governments across Europe are looking to rely less on American tech providers.

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Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android snooping apps

TechCrunch · Apr 24, 2026

Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a target’s phone. The company that allegedly developed the spyware was not previously known to sell this type of software.

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Cathie Woods’ ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI

TechCrunch · Apr 22, 2026

Lucra offers corporate loyalty programs reimagined as interactive eSports. But winning ARK as a lead wasn't easy.

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Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

TechCrunch · Apr 20, 2026

Deezer says consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, between 1-3% of the total streams, and that 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and are demonetized.

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Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

TechCrunch · Apr 17, 2026

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sharp pivot away from consumer moonshots toward enterprise AI.

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