Happy Monday. After a week in the Great Barrier Reef, I’m back! Highlights included scuba diving and snorkelling in coral reefs surrounded by thousands of fish, as well as swimming at Whitehaven Beach 🏖️

On a separate note, the name “Alexa” has seen the single largest drop in US baby name popularity from 2012 to 2022. Thanks Amazon!

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Google will disable third-party tracking cookies for 1% of Chrome users in just over six months. The change will help developers prepare for Google’s plans to deprecate cookies for all users in H2 2024.

Google’s Privacy Sandbox will replace cookies with a privacy conscious approach to tracking, grouping users into cohorts based on similar browsing patterns.

Given how integral cookies are to product and marketing functions, shit is about to get real 🧨

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Coinbase publicly launches One, its subscription service

• YouTube unveils 30-second unskippable ads on TVs

• Meta announces a code-generating AI model 

• Google lets users open Apple podcasts directly from Search 

• Apple TV launches its multiview feature to all users 

General and early-stage

• Neeva kills its search product and pivots to enterprise AI 

• Disney to launch a standalone ESPN streaming service 

• Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio

• Step launches a 5% yield savings account 

• 1Password ships a passkey authentication service

🔍 Other good finds

• Conversion. What an awesome pricing page looks like 

• Not in Tim’s house. Apple limits internal use of AI tools

• Everything app. How Uber is trying to create stickiness

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol