| Apple is indie chic at heart: Apple’s list of the Design Awards finalists is out, and the tech giant is celebrating indie apps and startups over bigger tech firms this time around. Not a ChatGPT in sight, actually. Instead, Apple is tipping its hat to recipe app Crouton, creative app Procreate Dreams and reimagined web browser, Arc Search. Read More How to build an HR search engine: On this week’s episode of Found, TechCrunch dug into enterprise software company Glean with its co-founder Arvind Jain. You’ve probably used Glean (we use it!) to search for answers like how much PTO you have left or upcoming company holidays. Jain talked about going after the gap in the marketplace and the challenge of convincing investors to back such an underdeveloped industry. Read More pcTattletale breach shuts down business: Spyware app pcTattletale is “out of business” after a data breach over the weekend. This wasn’t just some breach: A hacker defaced pcTattletale’s website and published links with large amounts of data from the company’s servers, including databases of customer information and victims’ stolen data. Read More Venture funding isn’t a necessity: Solutions by Text, which gives people a way to pay bills and apply for loans via text messaging, has been around for a decade, processes about 150 to 200 million messages a month, and is even EBITDA positive — and it managed that all on its own. Now, it’s secured $110 million to grow more, showing that bootstrapping is still a viable strategy. Read More SMBs need cash flow clarity, too: It’s hard to get funded as a small business — banks might turn you away, saying you’re too risky, and not every kind of business can get venture funding. That’s why Relay just raised $32 million to offer banking and money management services to small- and medium-sized businesses. Read More More deets on the EU’s new AI Office: As part of the bloc’s AI Act, the EU has revealed more about the structure of its new AI Office, an ecosystem-building and oversight body that will start operations from June 16. The EU hopes its office will exert a wider influence on the global stage of AI governance. TC’s Natasha Lomas breaks it down for us.Read More Spotify passes tax charges on to customers in France: Unsurprisingly, in response to a 1.2% levy that France imposed on music-streaming companies, Spotify has hiked its subscription plan prices by the same amount. Read More | 