Good morning! Musk, Woz, and thousands others signed a letter asking all AI labs to pause training for 6 months. Interesting timing for Musk, as it's been reported that he's exploring starting an Open AI rival 👀 

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Bing tests running ads in its AI-powered chatbot. For a subset of users, certain questions result in sponsored results (as below), with an expanded hover UI to engage with the ad.

Interested to see how these ads convert. One possible future could entail delivering purchase flows in a text-based format to drive conversion.

 ♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Amazon lets T-Mobile customers make calls via Alexa-devices

• Amazon Pharmacy auto applies coupons for brand name drugs 

• Google launches an ad-transparency center tracking brands' ads

• Google ships a downloadable version of its PostgreSQL database

• Spotify tests card-style profiles focused on discovery

• Apple tests a multiview feature for watching sports on Apple TV

General and early-stage

• Twilio Segment ships portable customer records with reverse ETL 

• Simple Habit pivots meditation app to Sleep Reset as part of M&A

• Jigsio unveils an AI assistant to surface employee data 

• Gamma launches a generative-AI product to build "killer slide decks"

• Sword Health ships Predict, a surgery prevention AI tool

• NFL unveils a venture to stream games at commercial establishments

🔍 Other good finds

• The witness. Binti's lessons in immersive user research

• Rest up. Seattle's new law gives gig worked paid sick time off

• Ummm.. Target?? a16z on the future of payments in the US

🧈 Twitter nugget

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-  Amol