Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. \nSeen on TechCrunch\nHow Shopify bungled its latest layoffs and made employees feel like NPCs\nRapidAPI headcount down 82% from fresh layoffs less than two weeks after cutting 50% of staff\nThink of the monetized children and other TC news\nWith DeepFloyd, generative AI art gets a text upgrade\nCrypto, influencers targeted in Kenya\u2019s new tax bid\nSeen on TechCrunch+\nThe ice-breaking IPO we\u2019ve waited for might not come from the US after all\nAI is just someone else\u2019s computer\nAsk Sophie: Will I be allowed into the US if my passport expires in 5 months\nTake care of yourself,\nN\n\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOpenAI may be synonymous with machine learning now and Google is doing its best to pick itself up off the floor, but both may soon face a new threat: rapidly multiplying open source projects that push the state of the art and leave the deep-pocketed but unwieldy corporations in their dust. The company said the mobile app had been the number one request from DistroKid members