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Today’s Tech Crunch Roundup
Another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident
23 Apr 2026, 2:00 pm by Julie Bort
TechCrunch has confirmed that Delve was the compliance company that performed the security certifications for Context AI, the AI agent training startup that last week disclosed a security incident.
Grab a ticket today: The first StrictlyVC of 2026 kicks off in just a week in San Francisco
23 Apr 2026, 2:00 pm by TechCrunch Events
StrictlyVC San Francisco is in just a week. Now’s the time to grab yourself a ticket. Join VCs and founders at Sentro Filipino Cultural Center on April 30.
Labor unrest at Samsung may worsen memory chip supply issues
23 Apr 2026, 1:59 pm by Kate Park
Tens of thousands of Samsung Electronics workers held a rally at the company’s Pyeongtaek campus in South Korea on Thursday to signal they are prepared to walk off the job for an 18-day strike next month.
Tesla drops Musk’s $29B ‘interim’ award after Delaware court restored larger pay package
23 Apr 2026, 1:40 pm by Sean O’Kane
The company is following through on its promise to not let Musk “double dip” if he won his appeal to restore Tesla’s 2018 compensation package, worth $56 billion.
WhatsApp adds prepaid phone recharges in India as its payments usage still lags
23 Apr 2026, 1:28 pm by Jagmeet Singh
WhatsApp is rolling out prepaid phone recharges to its 500 million users in India via PayU.
AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch
23 Apr 2026, 1:00 pm by Tim Fernholz
Astronomers are turning to GPUs to find needles in the galactic haystack.
Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say
23 Apr 2026, 12:01 pm by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.
Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools, including webinars and customizable paywalls
23 Apr 2026, 12:00 pm by Lauren Forristal
Beehiiv is clearly done being just a newsletter platform based on today’s launch of a new webinar feature, customizable paywalls, and more.
Meta will now allow parents to see the topics their child discussed with Meta AI
23 Apr 2026, 11:00 am by Aisha Malik
Topics can range from “School,” “Entertainment,” and “Lifestyle” to “Travel,” “Writing,” and “Health and Wellbeing,” among others, Meta says.
India’s app market is booming — but global platforms are capturing most of the gains
23 Apr 2026, 4:38 am by Jagmeet Singh
Non-gaming apps, led by streaming and AI, are driving growth, even as India’s spending per user lags global peers.
Shade lands $14M to let creative teams search their video libraries in plain English
23 Apr 2026, 4:17 am by Ivan Mehta
Shade has its own filesystem that lets you “stream” files directly to your local drive
End of today’s Tech Crunch roundup.
