Month: May 2025

Backstage access: Spotify’s dev tools side-hustle is growing legs 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

Temu stops shipping products from China to the U.S. 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

Warren Buffett will step down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO 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

Week in Review: Apple won’t raise prices — yet 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

Google’s Gemini has beaten Pokémon Blue (with a little help) 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,

eBay and Etsy are relatively confident despite tariff pressures 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. 

How HappyorNot went from four buttons to over 2 billion customer feedback data points I travel frequently through Berlin Airport and almost always endure a (thankfully clothed) pat-down at security — a process I find deeply annoying, not to mention embarrassing. While I fully understand the importance of airport security,

TEKEVER to invest £400M in UK defencetech, creating 1,000+ skilled jobs Unmanned autonomous systems company TEKEVER, has announced it will invest over £400 million in research, infrastructure, and defence technology development in the UK, leading to the creation of over 1000 highly-skilled jobs over the next five years. TEKEVER delivers complete,

University of Graz, Carbon Kapture, and BioDiMoBot partner to protect marine biodiversity A new collaboration between the University of Graz, Carbon Kapture, and the BioDiMoBot project has been announced to combat climate change and biodiversity loss. By integrating kelp farming with advanced underwater robotics, the partnership aims to monitor and

British Mission Zero Technologies opens first Direct Air Capture plant in Norfolk Mission Zero Technologies, a UK-based climatetech, has opened its first Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant in Norfolk, creating new jobs in the region amidst concern about the loss of industrial jobs in the country.  The facility, developed in