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Pinterest is upgrading its visual search feature with a handful of new capabilities. On Monday, the company announced it’s rolling out new functionality to improve its feature that allows users to search using an image instead of text. This includes new tools to more precisely narrow and refine searches, as well as those that make visual search more accessible across Pinterest’s website. The company believes the new additions will help Pinterest stand out as a search engine for things users may otherwise have trouble describing with words — like a vibe, style, or aesthetic. One new enhancement will help users to better understand what it is they like about a certain Pin, initially in the women’s fashion category in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. Image Credits:PinterestHere, when users tap on a Pin, they’ll see an animated glow, and Pinterest will then generate words that help people determine why they like the Pin in the first place. This feature is powered by Visual Language Models (VLMs), a form of generative AI, the company says. The addition is also similar to Google’s multimodal search, which combines text and images into a single query. Except in this case, Pinterest is helping users by generating the words that could be used to augment and narrow their search query. (The company notes it’s using “industry-leading” multimode embedding models, but didn’t specify which ones.) Another update will allow users to refine their fashion searches by seeking out alternatives to the item shown in a different color, style, or fabric. For instance, Pinterest suggests you could use this to find a similar style that had more of a “Y2K” aesthetic, or find something similar to a blazer you liked, but that works better for a formal occasion. Techcrunch event Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 BOOK NOW Image Credits:PinterestPinterest also says it will expand its visual search across more areas in its app, including by allowing users to long-press on any Pin on their Home Feed to kick off a visual search. The update comes on the heels of an announcement that Pinterest will begin to label AI-generated images and soon allow users to limit the number of AI images they’re shown, after numerous user complaints. People had begun to worry that AI would ruin Pinterest, as it would be even harder to find genuine images that could inspire their future shopping. Combined with the AI-focused update and the improved visual search, Pinterest hopes to re-establish its use as a visual shopping tool that leverages AI, as opposed to one that’s being destroyed by it.

Tesla’s new car sales in Spain fell 36% in April to just 571 vehicles year-over-year, Reuters reports. That slump comes as sales of electric cars made by other brands rose in the Iberian country. Tesla sales in Spain mirror those in Europe generally, which plunged in the first four months of the year by 37.2%, even as sales of fully-electric vehicles rose 28% on the continent. Some countries saw steeper losses than others. For example, Sweden’s Tesla sales dropped 81% to their lowest level in nearly three years. Tesla’s poor sales outcome in Europe comes as some buyers protest CEO Elon Musk’s swing into right-wing politics and closeness with President Donald Trump, whose tariffs have resulted in global economic instability. Europeans are also increasingly buying more Chinese EVs, including those from Tesla rival BYD. Tesla sales have also dropped in the U.S., resulting in soft demand for the automaker’s new Model Y, according to Electrek. Tesla has begun offering discounts on the new model that was meant to re-spark weakening demand. In a search for new markets, the automaker has recently pushed into Saudi Arabia and began testing the waters in India, despite the challenge a lack of charging infrastructure in the two countries.

Datadog is on an acquisition spree. Just a few weeks after snatching up Metaplane, an AI-powered observability startup, the cloud monitoring and security company has acquired Eppo, a feature flagging and experimentation platform. Eppo will continue supporting existing customers and bringing on new ones under the brand “Eppo by Datadog.” Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but a report last week from Ustarts Media suggested Datadog was planning to pay $220 million. Despite the demand for tools that let developers experiment with different versions of apps, the infrastructure required for product analytics remains relatively complex to build. Beyond data pipelines and statistical methods, experimentation infrastructure relies on analytics workflows often sourced from difficult-to-configure cloud environments. In an interview two years ago, Eppo co-founder and CEO Che Sharma told TechCrunch that Eppo was inspired by his experiences building experimentation software as a data scientist at Airbnb and Webflow, a website builder. Eppo offers what Sharma calls “confidence intervals” to make it easier to understand and interpret the results of a randomized app experiment. The platform supports experimentation with AI and machine learning models, leveraging techniques to perform live experiments that show whether one model is outperforming another. While plenty of startups have emerged in recent years to abstract away the app experimentation infrastructure, including Split, Statsig, and Optimizely, Eppo has managed to stand out in the crowded field. The San Francisco, California-based company raised $47.5 million from VC firms including Innovation Endeavors, Menlo Ventures, and Amplify Partners prior to its exit, according to CrunchBase. Eppo had around 15 employees as of June 2022, when the startup was valued at $80 million. Back then, Eppo’s customer base included Goldbelly, Netlify, and Kumu, among others. Techcrunch event Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 BOOK NOW “Eppo wants to bring a high velocity, experiment-first culture to companies of every size, stage, and industry,” Sharma said in a press release. “With Datadog, we are uniting product analytics, feature management, AI, and experimentation capabilities for businesses to reduce risk, learn quickly, and ship high-quality products.” For Datadog, which recently reported a better-than-expected net profit but a revenue forecast that fell below what analysts expected, the Eppo buy could bolster the company’s current product analytics solutions. The sector is a large and healthy one. According to Fortune Business Insights, the global market for product analytics was worth $9.09 billion last year and could reach $27.01 billion by 2032. “The use of multiple AI models increases the complexity of deploying applications in production,” Michael Whetten, VP of Product at Datadog, said in a statement. “Experimentation solves this correlation and measurement problem, enabling teams to compare multiple models side-by-side, determine user engagement against cost tradeoffs, and ultimately build AI products that deliver measurable value.”

After 23 years of connecting people around the world, Skype, the popular video-calling service, is shutting down on Monday. Microsoft, the parent company, confirmed that the official sunset date for the service is today, May 5, 2025. Skype users can either migrate all their contacts and chat data to Microsoft Teams, or they can choose to download their Skype data and transition to another video-calling service. To assist users in the switch, we’ve created a guide on how to migrate to Teams or download Skype data. Additionally, we’ve curated a list of alternative video-calling apps that can replace Skype. How to move from Skype to Microsoft Teams Skype users can sign in to Teams for free using their Skype credentials. Once logged in, all their chats and contacts will automatically transfer to the app. Teams offers features similar to Skype, including one-on-one and group calls, messaging, and file sharing. While Skype was primarily designed for smaller groups (up to 20 participants) and casual use, Teams is more business-focused, accommodating up to 10,000 participants in a single video call. It also comes with advanced security features and various integrations, such as Evernote, OneDrive, Office 365, Salesforce, SharePoint, Trello, and more. Teams is available on Android, iOS, Mac, PC, and the web. How to export Skype data For users who aren’t interested in making the transition to Microsoft Teams, we still recommend exporting account data. This ensures that valuable information — such as messages, files, and contact details — is backed up and can be accessed in the future. Techcrunch event Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 BOOK NOW Open Skype and log in. Click on the three horizontal dots under the account name in the top left corner. Go to Settings > Account & Profile > Your Account. After being redirected to Skype’s web portal, choose from either Export contacts (.csv), Export Caller ID numbers (.csv), or Export files and chat history. The “Export files and chat history” option lets users download Conversations and Files. Click Submit Request and Continue. When the export process is complete, click Download. Here are the best Skype alternatives Google Meet Image Credits:GoogleAn obvious benefit of using Google Meet is that it’s available for free with a Google account. Since a lot of people are already using Google and have existing accounts, transitioning to this platform would be fairly easy. Google Meet allows users to hold meetings with up to 100 participants, record meetings, share screens, and more. A drawback with the free plan is that if a meeting has more than three participants, there’s a 60-minute time limit. Large companies may want to purchase a Google Workspace plan for features like having up to 25 co-hosts, dividing participants into smaller breakout rooms during meetings, creating polls, setting up a Q&A session, livestreaming to YouTube, and more. Workspace — which has plans for $7/month, $14/month, $22/month, and up — also offers AI-powered tools through its Gemini assistant, which helps Meet users take notes and create custom background images. Zoom Zoom is another popular web-conferencing tool. It offers several helpful features, including the ability to host up to 100 participants and chat in both private and public groups, and has tools such as notes, a whiteboard, and screen-sharing capabilities. Users can also record meetings and access transcripts. However, one downside is the 40-minute time limit per meeting for users on the free plan. To avoid having meetings cut off, users will need to purchase a subscription, which ranges from $13/month to $18/month. Paid subscribers have access to Zoom’s AI Companion, which includes the ability to summarize meetings and ask questions about transcribed meetings. Webex Image Credits:WebexWebex, the Cisco-owned video conferencing tool, offers a similar plan to its competitors. For instance, it has features such as screen sharing, the ability to record sessions, a whiteboard capability, and more. The free plan includes up to 100 attendees per meeting, as well as an unfortunate 40-minute time limit. Webex also offers plans from $12/month, $22/month, and up, depending on team size. The paid tiers come with an AI assistant, live polling, Q&A, and the ability to add up to 1,000 attendees. Discord Discord was initially designed as a chat platform for gamers, but it can also serve as an alternative to Skype for personal use or for smaller teams. However, it’s not recommended for larger businesses, as it limits calls to 25 participants. On the positive side, Discord offers unlimited meeting lengths and features such as screen sharing, the ability to record meetings, and breakout rooms. The platform has a free plan in addition to two paid options priced at $5/month and $10/month, making it one of the more affordable choices available, depending on users’ needs. Slack Image Credits:SlackWhile Slack may not be ideal for formally scheduled meetings with large groups, it can be effective for spontaneous meetings within team chats. The Huddle feature in Slack enables users to easily transition from a chat thread to an informal audio or video call with colleagues. On the free plan, Huddles can accommodate only two people, whereas paid plans (priced at $7/month or $12/month) allow for up to 50. Signal Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has provided group video-calling features since 2020 and can accommodate up to 50 participants in a single call. Although it’s not a direct competitor to Skype, it allows users to share links for calls, enabling them to simply send the link to others rather than creating a group, much like Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams do. Notably, Signal is free to use. Other similar apps for mobile users looking to video call with smaller groups include WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Apple FaceTime.

A hacker has exploited a vulnerability in TeleMessage, which provides modded versions of encrypted messaging apps such as Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp, to extract archived messages and other data relating to U.S. government officials and companies who used the tool, 404 Media reported. TeleMessage came into the spotlight last week after it was reported that former U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz was using TeleMessage’s modified version of Signal. Israel-based TeleMessage, owned by Smarsh, offers its clients a way to archive messages, including voice notes, from encrypted apps. The messages of cabinet members and Waltz were not compromised, 404 Media said, but the hacked data contained contents of messages; contact information of government officials; backend login credentials for TeleMessage, and more. Data pertaining to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, crypto exchange Coinbase, and financial service providers like Scotiabank were extracted by the hacker, the report said. The hack revealed that the archived chat logs are not end-to-end encrypted between the modded version of Signal that TeleMessage offers and the ultimate location where it stores the messages, 404 Media reported. Smarsh, Signal, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Coinbase, and Scotiabank did not immediately return requests for comment.

Apple is planning to split the launch of its iPhone 18 range, expected in 2026, by about half a year, The Information reported, citing supply chain sources. The company is planning to release the Pro versions of the iPhone 18 in fall 2026, and push the release of the less expensive iPhone 18, along with a new version of the iPhone 16e, to spring 2027, the report said. A new foldable ‌iPhone‌ may also be released in fall 2026, the report said. Apple is reportedly planning to launch a slimmer version of the smartphone, ‌rumoured to be named “iPhone‌ 17 Air” this year, per Bloomberg. The company is expected to launch a successor to that model in 2026 as well, The Information reported. The Information noted that Apple would also test making the cheaper iPhone 18 models in India to reduce its reliance on China for manufacturing, as Trump’s tariffs impact its margins.

Startups providing AI-powered coding tools are striking a positive chord with investors. Cursor, one of the most popular tools in the segment, has attracted $900 million in a fresh round of funding led by Thrive Capital, as per a report from the Financial Times. The FT noted that other top venture firms such as Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Accel are participating in the round that would value Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, at $9 billion. Earlier this year, Cursor raised $105 million from Thrive and a16z at a $2.5 billion valuation, as previously reported by TechCrunch. Other AI-powered coding startups are also attracting investor interest. In February, TechCrunch reported that Windsurf was in discussions about raising a round at a $3 billion valuation. Last month, reports of OpenAI trying to acquire the startup at the same value also emerged.

While most African digital lenders depend on working capital to fuel growth, MoneyFellows has quietly done what few others have: lend billions of Egyptian pounds with almost no debt or balance sheet exposure. Now, after raising $13 million in a pre-Series C round led by Casablanca-based Al Mada Ventures and DPI’s Nclude Fund, the Cairo-based fintech says it’s ready to shift from steady growth to regional expansion. The round, which also drew participation from Partech Africa and CommerzVentures, brings the company’s total funding to just over $60 million. Founder and CEO Ahmed Wadi notes that, unlike fintechs burning through cash to scale, the startup has kept operations lean while digitizing one of the world’s oldest financial systems: the rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA). “We have managed to crack this model and reach profitability,” said Wadi. “Doing this while lending out billions without relying on working capital at all is quite disruptive in itself.” ROSCAs are informal savings groups where a fixed number of participants contribute regularly to a shared pool, which pays out to one member per cycle. Common across emerging markets, they go by different names: esusu or ajo in Nigeria, kameti or chit fund in India, and gam’eya in Egypt. Here’s how it works: Say ten people each contribute $1,000 a month. Every month, one person receives the full $10,000. The cycle repeats until everyone gets a payout. While these groups work best within trusted circles, their offline nature limits access and scalability. Techcrunch event Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 BOOK NOW MoneyFellows, launched in 2016, digitizes this model by opening access to a broader pool of users across the country. Through its app, anyone can form or join ROSCA groups or “circles.” Similar models exist globally with Pakistan’s Oraan and the U.K.’s StepLadder. Rather than act as a lender, MoneyFellows matches savers (usually last in line) and borrowers (typically first in line) using behavioural data, credit scores, and income tiers. This approach allows it to scale without lending from its balance sheet; the company only steps in when a ROSCA group has an unfilled slot, according to Wadi. “If we run circles of 10 people each and only find nine members for some, we step in to fund the missing one,” explains Wadi, who tested the ROSCA model in Germany and the U.K. before launching in Egypt. “Instead of canceling the group, we finance one slot, which activates and monetizes the remaining nine.” Money Fellows, an Egyptian fintech digitizing money circles, raises $31M funding In a typical lending business, a company has to borrow money from banks or other financial institutions to lend it out, most of the time incurring interest costs and default risk. However, in MoneyFellows’ case, the risk and funding are spread across its users, keeping the proportion of unfilled Rosca slots under 10%. In comparison, buy now, pay later (BNPL) providers and digital lenders often have full working capital exposure on their loan books. “Today, only 7-8% of slots in active Roscas require us to step in with working capital,” Wadi notes. Such exposure may be low in percentage terms, but as MoneyFellows scales, it adds up. Hence why the company, which raised this funding as a bridge to a much larger Series C round planned for next year, is also in advanced discussions with local banks to secure working capital in its bid to grow its “circles” much faster. Operating profitably and expanding outside Egypt MoneyFellows says it has reached profitability in Egypt, placing it among a small group of African fintech startups operating in the black. Since launching in 2018, the platform has grown to over 8.5 million users, up from 4.5 million at its last funding milestone. The average payout per user has nearly doubled in the past two and a half years, from 23,000 EGP ($453) to 45,000 EGP ($906), with strong adoption among higher-income segments. “This model is naturally viral,” Wadi said of the startup’s growth. “If you digitize the experience for two members of an offline ROSCA, they often bring the other eight with them. That kind of organic growth is hard to beat.” Competitive borrowing rates, he adds, have also helped accelerate adoption. Earlier this year, MoneyFellows launched a card product that allows users to receive payouts, repay instalments, and spend across a merchant network. The eight-year-old fintech also plans to introduce investment, payroll, insurance and remittance products down the line, moves that put MoneyFellows in competition with other Egyptian digital banks like Lucky, Khazna, and Telda. Its next test will be replicating its success beyond Egypt, an ambition Wadi first voiced in 2022. He admits that expansion took longer than expected due to the model’s complexity, which the company chose to refine before going regional. Digitizing ROSCAs isn’t as straightforward as launching a savings or loan product. According to him, the process involves building recommendation engines to match users to the right slots, balancing thousands of circles in real time, and minimizing default and dropout risk, all while maintaining user trust. “Cracking the model took longer than we thought,” Wadi remarked. “But it was worth the time. Most attempts to scale Roscas digitally, even by banks and telcos globally, have failed because they underestimated how complex the underlying behavior is.” After nearly a decade refining its model in one of Africa’s largest fintech markets, partnering with over 350 local and regional entities and facilitating more than $50 million in investments, MoneyFellows plans to launch in Morocco by year-end, having secured key partnerships and regulatory approvals. Morocco offers familiar ground: a large unbanked population, a strong informal savings culture (known locally as daret), and a regulator-friendly environment. MoneyFellows is also betting that events like the 2030 FIFA World Cup will accelerate digital adoption in the country. The company is also eyeing other African and South Asian markets with similar dynamics. However, entering more diverse markets will test the model’s adaptability in regions where informal finance is less culturally relevant or formal banking is more entrenched. “ROSCA’s (Rotating Savings and Credit Association) are very old financial arrangements, with roots going back hundreds, if not thousands of years,” said Omar Laalej, Managing Director at Al Mada Ventures. “AMV was impressed by the modernized version of this business that Money Fellows was able to build, positively impacting thousands of families in Egypt.”

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Duolingo announced plans this week to replace contractors with AI and become an “AI-first” company — a move that journalist Brian Merchant pointed to as a sign that the AI jobs crisis “is here, now.” In fact, Merchant spoke to a former Duolingo contractor who said this isn’t even a new policy. The company cut around 10% of its contractor workforce at the end of 2023, and Merchant said there was another round of cuts in October 2024. In both cases, contractors (first translators, then writers) were replaced with AI. Merchant also noted reporting in The Atlantic around the unusually high unemployment rate for recent college graduates. One explanation? Companies might be replacing entry-level white collar jobs with AI, or their spending on AI is simply “crowding out” the spending for new hires. This crisis, Merchant wrote, is really “a series of management decisions being made by executives seeking to cut labor costs and consolidate control in their organizations,” and it’s manifesting as “attrition in creative industries, the declining income of freelance artists, writers, and illustrators, and in corporations’ inclination to simply hire fewer human workers.” “The AI jobs crisis is not any sort of SkyNet-esque robot jobs apocalypse — it’s DOGE firing tens of thousands of federal employees while waving the banner of ‘an AI-first strategy,’” he added.

President Donald Trump has already delayed a TikTok ban twice, and he said Sunday that he’s willing to do it again. Axios reports that during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump said that if a deal isn’t made to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations to American owners before the current June 19 deadline, he would grant the company another extension. “Perhaps I shouldn’t say this, but I have a little warm spot in my heart for TikTok,” he said. Congress passed a law last year banning TikTok if its parent company ByteDance did not sell the short-form video app, and TikTok briefly disappeared when the ban took effect in January. Trump then declared that he would delay the ban for 90 days and suggested that he’d like to see a joint venture with U.S. ownership. When the next deadline rolled around in April, Trump gave the company another 75-day extension, noting that the Chinese government (which must approve the deal) was “not very happy about our Reciprocal Tariffs.”

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is getting its own official company town. Residents of an area around SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in southern Texas voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to incorporate as a city — also named Starbase. According to results posted online by the Cameron County Elections Department, there were 212 votes in favor and only six against. In a post on his social media site X, Musk wrote that Starbase, Texas “Is now a real city!” The new city’s residents are believed to mostly be SpaceX employees. On Saturday, they also voted to elect three current and former Starbase employees — Bobby Peden, Jordan Buss, and Jenna Petrzelka — who ran unopposed to serve, respectively, as Starbase’s mayor and two commissioners. The Associated Press reports that SpaceX hasn’t shared many specifics about why it wanted to incorporate the area. The company said it already manages the area’s roads, utilities, and “the provisions of schooling and medical care,” and it’s also looking to shift authority from the county to the new city government to close the nearby Boca Chica beach and state park for launches. Musk — who recently said he would be reducing his role with the Trump administration’s controversial Department of Government Efficiency to a “day or two” per week — announced last year that he was moving SpaceX’s headquarters from El Segundo, California to the Starbase facility in Texas. At the time, Musk said he’d “had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building” and that the “final straw” was a California bill that prohibits schools from disclosing students’ sexuality or gender identity without consent. Techcrunch event Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 BOOK NOW After last night’s election, a new X account representing the town posted, “Becoming a city will help us continue building the best community possible for the men and women building the future of humanity’s place in space.”

While many tech companies are mandating that their employees return to their offices, and putting an emphasis on building in-person teams, they are also turning in droves to Latin America to find developer talent — especially for post-training AI models. Revelo, a full-stack platform of vetted developers in Latin America, is seeing a new surge in demand for engineers that can help with LLM training, Revelo co-founder and CEO Lucas Mendes, told TechCrunch. Revelo has more than 400,000 developers on its platform and facilitates the hiring and payment process for its U.S. customers. Mendes said this recent surge of demand for Revelo’s talent is driven by the next phase of the AI revolution: post-training LLMs. “There’s a race for data, and especially expert human data, that can actually help LLMs be better at very specific high-value tasks,” Mendes said. “Coding is one of those tasks. And what happened last year is that we saw a surge in demand from [companies] building foundational models that are looking for engineers that can be effective experts and that can provide that human data to help their LLM code better.” LLM training hires accounted for 22% of Revelo’s revenue in 2024. Mendes added that often this demand looks like companies coming to them to find experts in specific coding languages to help fill gaps in the post-training they are already doing. Revelo is supplying workers to U.S. enterprises Intuit, Oracle, and Dell, among others, including “nearly every major hyperscale AI provider.” Techcrunch event Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 BOOK NOW Revelo is not the only company looking to connect U.S. companies to programmers in Latin America; other companies like Terminal, Tecla and Near are just a few with the same goal. This demand for developers skilled in post-training is just the latest hiring trend that Revelo has been able to ride since it was founded in late 2014. Mendes said he launched Revelo alongside co-founder Lachlan de Crespigny because the war for talent was tight at the time, and they thought if they created a network of vetted talent in Brazil, companies would be able to find the talent they needed. The demand was there and Revelo went on to raise more than $48 million in venture funding from firms including Social Capital, FJ Labs and Valor Capital Group. The company also expanded out of Brazil and into broader LatAm. The Covid-19 pandemic expanded Revelo’s potential reach “massively,” Mendes added. “All of a sudden we started getting inbound from U.S. companies who suddenly realized that you can actually have really high-quality distributed teams and have some of those engineers are in Latin America,” Mendes said. “So what would happen usually is that they would hire one or two and really like the quality and especially the quality cost tradeoff and say, ‘Hey, I want more of these, where do I find them?’” While the rise of distributed and remote work has largely started to fade as companies return to in-person work, Revelo has still managed to keep growing. Mendes joked that he hates to be the guy that goes against the buzz, but the demand for their LatAm talent has not diminished despite tech’s movement back to the office. Mendes said he thinks that the demand from U.S. companies for these developers in Latin America has remained because these developers fall more into the “nearshoring” category of workers outside the U.S. as opposed to “offshoring.” He believes the fact that Revelo’s talent is located in the same time zones as their client companies makes these hires a lot more attractive. Revelo is seeing enough demand that it has acquired five other competitors focused on LatAm talent in the last 30 months including Alto and Paretisa, which were announced in March. “We’re building that global talent backbone for the age of AI and there will be more acquisitions in the future,” he said.

Spotify generates the vast bulk of its income from ads and subscriptions, but for the past few years the music-streaming giant has also been quietly building out a developer tooling business. Backstage, a project it open-sourced in 2020, has been adopted by more than 2 million developers across 3,400 organizations, including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Twilio, and American Airlines. Backstage helps companies build customized “internal developer portals” (IDPs), bringing order to their infrastructure chaos by combining all their tooling, apps, data, services, APIs, and documents in a single interface. Want to monitor Kubernetes, view cloud costs, or check your CI/CD status? Enter Backstage. Backstage in actionImage Credits:SpotifyThe Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which accepted Backstage as an incubating project in 2022, reports that Backstage was one of its top 5 projects last year in terms of velocity and activity. And it’s this momentum that is leading Spotify to double down, with various premium tools and services on the horizon. Oven-baked Companies can already use the core Backstage product for free, including an array of open source plugins that extend its functionality. But Spotify started selling premium plugins in 2022, such as Backstage Insights, which displays data related to active Backstage usage within an organization. And last year, Spotify got serious about its dev tools business play, announcing Spotify Portal for Backstage in beta: a premium, oven-baked incarnation for those lacking the resources (or inclination) to set everything up themselves. “Backstage in a box,” is the general idea. The fully managed SaaS product is now edging toward general availability in the coming months, with design partners and customers including the Linux Foundation and Pager Duty already on board. “We discovered that there were a lot of different customer profiles,” Tyson Singer (pictured above), Spotify’s head of technology and platforms, explained to TechCrunch in an interview at KubeCon last month. “Our original theory was that Backstage was going to be bigger for mid-size to large enterprises dealing with a lot of complexity, but we found that small companies also see these same problems. And so having a hosted version makes everything so much easier.” Techcrunch event Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 BOOK NOW Spotify also teased a couple of new premium Portal plugins at KubeCon, including AiKA (“AI knowledge assistant”), which is basically a chatbot initially developed internally for its own employees. AiKA from SpotifyImage Credits:SpotifyThe result of a 2023 hackathon, Spotify says that AiKA is now used by 25% of its workforce weekly to query the company’s collective knowledge base. So rather than bombarding support channels in Slack, employees can just ask AiKA, which is trained on its own internal documents and data. Singer also says that AiKA’s utility — providing instant answers to questions — motivates employees to make sure all their documents are up-to-date because it makes AiKA smarter. If someone doesn’t get a good response to a question, they can see what source was used in the response, and provide feedback to ensure the source document is improved. “It [AiKA] kind of sounds simple, but it’s powerful, and we got super-high adoption very quickly internally,” Singer said. “[I think why is because] it’s not just developers that are using it — everybody in the R&D organization has gotten into it, which also brings more people into the Backstage ecosystem. But also it creates this very positive fly-wheel between quality and discovery.” Spotify has confirmed that an alpha version of AiKA is set to launch for third parties imminently. And while it won’t be at feature parity with its own internal version initially, it should go some way toward bolstering Backstage’s stickiness as a premium product in the long run. AiKA from SpotifyImage Credits:SpotifyGrowing confidence Backstage isn’t the only home-grown developer product Spotify is looking to monetize. Some 20 months ago the company announced Confidence, an A/B experimentation platform that has remained in stealth ever since. “We have a few customers who are paying [for Confidence], but we are really focused on Portal right now,” Singer said. “We’re being very selective about the customers that we let in the door.” According to Singer, Spotify will have more to say about Confidence later this year, though he did hint at potential synergies between Confidence and Portal in the form of a plugin that brings some simple feature-flagging functionality into Portal. When all is said and done, creating a developer tooling side-hustle on top of its day job as an online music emporium has surely been a major undertaking. But there has been good reason for all of this. More than a decade ago, Spotify created its own container orchestration platform called Helios to support its transition to a microservices architecture. While Spotify eventually open sourced Helios to spur wider uptake, it ultimately lost out to Google’s Kubernetes, which went on to conquer the world. Spotify ditched Helios and joined the throngs on Kubernetes — a “painful” decision at the time. And what we’re seeing now with Backstage is a response to that: an effort to ensure that Backstage is the industry standard IDP, and that its own developers aren’t forced to transition to something else that comes along. “When you have a product that gets replaced by an external product, particularly an open source one, that migration cost is just tremendous,” Singer said. “And so we decided that we don’t want that to happen to a product that is literally the foundation of how we do development at Spotify.” While Spotify went some way toward heading off that problem when it open-sourced Backstage in 2020, the premium stuff that’s now following is really to ensure that it sticks. “We’re a business — and we also want to build a healthy business on top of all this,” Singer said. “We’re not just trying to cover costs. At the end of the day, we have a lot of value trapped inside Spotify right now.”

Chinese retailer Temu has shifted strategy in the face of U.S. tariffs. Through executive order, President Donald Trump has ended the so-called de minimis rule, which allowed goods worth $800 or less to enter the country without tariffs. He’s also increasing tariffs on Chinese goods by more than 100%, forcing both Chinese companies like Shein and American giants like Amazon to adjust plans and hike prices. CNBC reports that Temu was affected as well, with U.S. shoppers seeing “import charges” between 130% and 150% added to their bills. Now, however, the company is no longer shipping goods directly from China to the United States. Instead, it only displays listings for products available in U.S. warehouses, while goods shipped from China are listed as out of stock. “Temu has been actively recruiting U.S. sellers to join the platform,” a Temu spokesperson said. “The move is designed to help local merchants reach more customers and grow their businesses.”

Legendary investor Warren Buffett announced today that he will ask the Berkshire Hathaway board to have Greg Abel replace him as CEO at the end of 2025. “I think the time has arrived where Greg should become the chief executive officer of the company at year end,” Buffett said at the end of the company’s annual shareholder meeting, ahead of its board meeting Sunday. At the same time, Buffett, who is 94 years old, said that he would “hang around” in some capacity. He and Abel told CNBC that they would use Sunday’s board meeting to discuss what Buffett’s formal role will be after he steps down. Buffett had previously identified Abel — currently Berkshire Hathaway’s vice chairman for non-insurance operations — as his successor, but he hadn’t said when Abel would take over. While technology is just one of many areas where Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway invest, it’s made big bets on the industry. Even after selling half its Apple stock last year, the company represents more than 20% of its portfolio.

Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got lots of news for you today: Amazon earnings, Apple earnings, ChatGPT sycophancy, Alibaba’s AI models, and much more. Let’s get to it! Well? During Apple’s earnings call yesterday, Tim Cook revealed that the company paid $900 million in tariffs last quarter. But despite this, the CEO didn’t announce any price increases — yet. Big bucks: Defense tech startup Mach Industries, which was founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, is about to close a fresh $100 million in financing, sources told TechCrunch. This new funding should bring the startup’s total funding to about $185 million to date. More models: Alibaba announced this week that it’s releasing a family of AI models, called Qwen3, that it claims can outperform OpenAI and Google. According to Alibaba, the Qwen3 models are “hybrid” models, and they’re not yet available for download. This is TechCrunch’s Week in Review, where we recap the week’s biggest news. Want this delivered as a newsletter to your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. News Image Credits:AmazonShoot for the stars: Amazon’s effort to create a space-based internet network began in earnest this week: The company fired off its first 27 internet satellites on Tuesday. The first half of the network needs to be deployed by mid-2026 to meet the FCC deadline. AI in your pocket: Meta is rolling out a stand-alone AI app, which it unveiled at the company’s first LlamaCon event on Tuesday. The app allows users to access Meta AI in an app, similar to the ChatGPT app and other AI assistant apps. Techcrunch event Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 BOOK NOW Blocked: A judge in India blocked the encrypted email provider Proton Mail across the country. This was in response to a legal complaint filed by New Delhi-based M Moser Design Associates, which alleged that its employees had received emails containing obscene and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail. Cheaters never win: Cluely went viral recently for its bold claim of helping people cheat on everything. But some startups are claiming they can catch Cluely’s users. Alexa+: Amazon’s new digital assistant aims to let users talk with it in a more natural style and eventually have agentic abilities that allow it to use third-party apps on a user’s behalf. During Amazon’s earnings call this week, CEO Andy Jassy says that 100,000 users now have Alexa+. AI where it matters: Airbnb seems to be taking a more measured approach with AI. It started rolling out an AI-powered customer service bot in the U.S. last month. CEO Brian Chesky said in February that the company would use AI for customer service before it started implementing it for other uses like travel planning or booking tickets. Epic ruling: Epic Games has notched a win in an ongoing legal dispute with Apple. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a ruling that Apple was in “willful violation” of a 2021 injunction that prohibited the company from imposing anticompetitive pricing. As a result, Fortnite could be back on iPhones as soon as next week. LOL: Following the Epic Games ruling, Stripe shared documentation that shows iOS developers how to avoid the Apple commission. Check your settings: Meta emailed Ray-Ban Meta owners on Tuesday with a notice that AI features will now be enabled on the glasses by default. This means Meta’s AI will analyze photos and videos taken with the glasses while certain AI features are switched on. Yikes! OpenAI said it was “rolling back” the latest update to the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o, after complaints about strange behavior, in particular it being overly agreeable and validating. According to OpenAI, the update, which was intended to make the model’s default personality “feel more intuitive and effective,” was informed too much by “short-term feedback.” Now the company pledges to make changes that would prevent this from happening in the future. Before you go Image Credits:Bryce Durbin / TechCrunchOh the drama: We read through the 80-page Epic v. Apple decision to pull out the judge’s juiciest, fieriest comments. Here’s one to get you started: “Apple engaged in tactics to delay the proceedings. The Court later concluded that delay equaled profits.”

Google’s most expensive AI model seems to have crossed a major milestone: Beating a 29-year-old video game. Last night, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted triumphantly on X, “What a finish! Gemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue!” To be clear, the Gemini Plays Pokemon livestream was created by (in his own words) “a 30 year old software engineer unaffiliated with Google” who goes by Joel Z. But Google executives have been cheering the effort on. For example, Logan Kilpatrick, the product lead for Google AI Studio, posted last month that Gemini was “making great progress at completing Pokémon” and had “earned its 5th badge (next best model only has 3 so far, though with a different agent harness),” leading Pichai to joke, “We are working on API, Artificial Pokémon Intelligence:)” Why Pokémon? Back in February, Anthropic highlighted progress that its Claude AI models were making in “Pokémon Red,” writing that Claude’s “extended thinking and agent training” gives it “a major boost” on “more unexpected” tasks, like playing a classic game. (“Pokémon Red” and “Blue” are different versions of a GameBoy title first released in 1996 and tied to the long-running Pokémon franchise). There’s even a Claude Plays Pokemon Twitch channel that Joel Z cited as an inspiration. Despite its progress, Claude does not appear to have beaten “Pokémon Red” yet. Does that mean Gemini is objectively better at the game? On his Twitch page, Joel Z urged viewers, “Please don’t consider this a benchmark for how well an LLM can play Pokemon. You can’t really make direct comparisons — Gemini and Claude have different tools and receive different information.” And both AI models need help to play the game — that’s where the aforementioned agent harnesses come in, providing the models with game screenshots overlaid with additional information, allowing the model to decide how to respond (which may involve calling specialized agents), and then pressing the button that corresponds with the AI’s instruction. Techcrunch event Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 BOOK NOW Joel Z acknowledged that there were other “dev interventions” to help Gemini complete the game, but insisted that it’s not cheating. “My interventions improve Gemini’s overall decision-making and reasoning abilities,” he says. “I don’t give specific hints — there are no walkthroughs or direct instructions for particular challenges like Mt. Moon. The only thing that comes even close is letting Gemini know that it needs to talk to a Rocket Grunt twice to obtain the Lift Key, which was a bug that was later fixed in Pokemon Yellow.” Plus, he said, “Gemini Plays Pokémon is still actively being developed, and the framework continues to evolve.”

Like virtually every sector in the business world, the secondhand industry is grappling with the ramifications of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. However, based on the comments made by eBay and Etsy earlier this week, both don’t appear to be overly concerned. The companies recently reported Q1 2025 earnings results, both addressing the pressing topic of tariffs. eBay and Etsy are resilient to an extent, largely due to their sellers’ approaches to sourcing products. In contrast to import-reliant rivals like Temu and Shein, which recently raised prices in response to tariffs, many eBay and Etsy sellers in the U.S. mainly source their products locally, often selling used, vintage, or handmade items. The companies provided data during their earnings calls to demonstrate the minimal exposure to tariffs. eBay’s CEO Jamie Iannone said, “Our greater China to U.S. quarter makes up about 5% of total [gross merchandise value] for us. And China overall is a little less than 10%.” Similarly, Etsy’s CFO, Lanny Baker, said, “At present, Etsy’s direct tariff exposure appears to be relatively low given that just over 1% of [gross merchandise sales] comes from U.S. imports of items purchased from sellers in China.” Etsy’s CEO, Josh Silverman, added, “Most are solo entrepreneurs working from their home with 90% sourcing their supplies domestically.” Techcrunch event Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 BOOK NOW Having sellers with local sourcing strategies can provide a significant advantage over competitors like Temu, Shein, and Amazon. However, secondhand companies still have to deal with the challenges that come with the ongoing economic uncertainty and consumer spending habits. Etsy appears to be slightly more vulnerable when it comes to this. Etsy’s core business model focuses on handcrafted and vintage goods, which tend to be priced higher. So, while Etsy sellers may not feel the effects of tariffs, customers are still hesitant to spend, leading to a 3.4% year-over-year decline in active buyers, bringing the total to 88.5 million. The number of habitual buyers was down 11%, totaling 6.2 million. Additionally, Etsy reported an 8.9% decline in gross merchandise sales (GMS) for the marketplace to $2.3 billion. On a positive note, Etsy continues to benefit from its ownership of Depop, a secondhand fashion platform that remains popular amid the looming recession. Since acquiring Depop in 2021, the platform has achieved record-high GMS. The company didn’t disclose specific figures. “Etsy has a strong track record of navigating turbulent macroeconomic conditions, and we’re confident in our ability to keep adapting,” Silverman said. In contrast, eBay is in a stronger position because more price-conscious shoppers are choosing used and refurbished goods, which the company said accounts for over 40% of its inventory. The company reported that customers eager to avoid tariffs have increased their spending, giving eBay a solid start to the quarter. “We have observed healthy volume trends due to strength in our focus categories and what could be a modest pull forward of demand from consumers worried about increased costs and complexity at U.S. customs in the near future,” said eBay’s CFO, Steve Priest. The company’s gross merchandise volume (GMV) grew to $18.8 billion, while revenue increased over 1% to $2.58 billion.

If you’re someone who likes to bookmark a bunch of things that you find interesting or want to come back to later, it can be hard to manage everything you have saved. There are a number of great bookmark apps on the market that can help you organize all these sorts of links, articles, and whatever else you come across on your mobile phone and browser. We’ve compiled a list of some of the best to help you find one that’s right for you. Raindrop.io Image Credits:Raindrop.ioRaindrop is an easy-to-use bookmark app that lets you clip things like articles, photos, videos, songs, books, and pages from the web and apps. You can organize your bookmarks into collections with tags and filters and personalize these collections with icons and photos to find them easily. Raindrop saves the entire web page of what you’re saving, which means you don’t have to revisit the link. Raindrop also lets you share your collections with friends, family members, or the entire web. Raindrop is available as a Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge extension. Or, you can download the Raindop.io apps for web, Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, and Android. The free version of the service gives you unlimited bookmarks and collections, the ability to upload 100MB of files per month, access to more than 2,600 integrations, and more. The Pro version of the app costs $28 per year and comes with AI suggestions, the ability to upload 10GB of files per month, daily backups, and more. Pocket Image Credits:PocketPocket may be one of the best-known bookmark apps on the market, and that’s because it’s simple and gets the job done. You can use the app to bookmark the latest news, magazine articles, videos, recipes, how-tos, and basically anything else you come across online from any publisher. Techcrunch event Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 BOOK NOW You can use the app to curate a space for topics that you’re interested in to get recommendations for other similar articles you may enjoy. Pocket is available on iOS, Android, the web, and through browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. The app’s basic functionality is available for free. You can upgrade to Premium for $45 per year to unlock an ad-free experience with additional features, such as suggested tags, advanced search, permanent backup, and more. GoodLinks Image Credits:GoodLinksGoodLinks is a bookmarking app that lets you save articles without web advertisements and other distractions so you can read them later in an easy-to-read format. You can also highlight text in articles to find important passages at a later time. You can use tags to organize articles by topic and search your bookmarks based on their title, description, and content. GoodLinks is available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices. The app also offers browser extensions to save links directly from Safari, Chrome, Edge, or Firefox. You can download GoodLinks via a one-time purchase of $9.99. You can choose to pay $4.99 for an annual feature upgrade, which gives you access to new features that were introduced within one year of your initial purchase. Matter Image Credits:MatterMatter is an aesthetically pleasing app that lets you save articles, social media threads, and PDFs so you can come back to them later. You can also save YouTube videos and podcast episodes, after which Matter will transcribe them to time-synced text. Plus, you can get all of your newsletters sent straight to Matter if you’re on the paid version of the service. As with the other apps on this list, you can organize your bookmarks with tags and share links directly with others. The app is available on iOS and macOS and through a web app. It’s also available through a Safari extension. The free version of Matter includes an un-capped read-later library, unlimited tags, and the ability to save all types of content. The paid version, which costs $7.99 per month or $59.99 per year, comes with HD text-to-speech for all your articles, the ability to sync your newsletters and send content to your Kindle, and more. MyMind Image Credits:MyMindIf you don’t want to manually save and organize things, MyMind could be a good fit for you. The app uses AI to organize your bookmarks and automatically tags them so you can find them later. It will also give you a brief summary of what you have saved. MyMind then groups related content into “Spaces,” which gets rid of the need to manually sort your bookmarks. You can search for what you’re looking for using keywords, brand, date, or even color. The app is available on iOS, Android, and the web, as well as through extensions for Safari, Chrome, and Edge. MyMind offers two different subscription tiers. The “Student Life” tier costs $6.99 per month and comes with unlimited cards, spaces, intelligent bookmarks, and more. The “Mastermind” tier costs $12.99 per month and unlocks advanced AI, video support, AI summaries, a reading mode, and more.