Happy Friday! Although not if you're Silicon Valley Bank. SVB was forced into a fire sale of its securities, losing $2b in the process. A bank run is now underway as VCs tell startups to pull funds from SVB. If things so south, this will have serious implications for the startup scene...

Highlight of the day

Brex launched a ChatGPT-powered AI tool. The feature lets users ask wide ranging questions related to budgets and spend, with industry comps built-in. This sort of data analysis is a killer use case for ChatGPT - can't wait till Amplitude and Looker ship something like this!

Features & products hot off the press

Big tech

• Apple launches its new classical music streaming app 

• Meta stops bonus payouts for Reels creators 

• Reddit kills Reddit Talk, it's Clubhouse clone 

• Microsoft 365 starts rolling out an accessibility assistant

• Discord tests Clyde, a ChatGPT-powered chatbot

• Amazon's Ring launches a higher-res battery doorbell 

General and early-stage

• Epic to let developers self-publish to the Epic Games store

• Verizon's +Play offers free Netflix if other purchases are made

• Loft ships a virtual cluster solution for Kubernetes

• Github to require 2FA for all contributors 

• Telegram ships power-saving mode for battery preservation

• Stationhead launches a new live commerce tool 

Other good finds

• Amplitude's Growth. A/B testing mistakes and career frameworks

• Buyer beware. Judge gives police access to defendants Ring footage

• Sharing is caring. Meta shares a voice & facial recognition AI dataset

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- Amol