Good morning! Grimes has given the all clear for fans to create AI generated songs using her voice. There's a monetary cherry on top for trying, as Grimes will split royalties 50% with creators on any successful AI generated song. Let the floodgates open 🌊

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Shopify launched a bill payments tool to let businesses manage expenses and vendors on its platform. Courtesy of a partnership with Melio, Shopify customers can now go into the Admin portal and pay bills via their preferred method, while separately selecting how vendors receive payments (check, bank, or wire transfer) 🏹

It's yet another move by Shopify to slowly inch over from e-commerce to fintech.

 ♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Google Cloud announced an AI security platform and LLM

• Google updates Authenticator to sync with Google accounts 

• Twitter ships its creator monetization feature in the EU and UK

• Microsoft to stop bundling Teams with Office due to antitrust issues

• Microsoft ships updates to math equation formatting in Bing Chat

General and early-stage

• GitLab launches an AI security feature for explaining vulnerabilities 

• Petey ships a ChatGPT generated Apple Music playlists app 

• Apigee rolls out a suite of API security features 

• Runway launches a mobile app for video styling using AI

• BeReal tests letting users post photos up to three times a day

🔍 Other good finds

• Why not what. Common mistakes PMs make in product reviews

• Streamlining. The 'great flattening' of middle managers in tech

• A first. First NFT insider trading trial kicks off against ex-Opensea PM

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol