Happy Friday! Celebrating it’s 50th anniversary, the Van Gogh Museum is partnering with Pokemon to introduce young artists to Van Gogh. If you’re in Amsterdam, you can go pick up a limited edition “Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat” card in the style of Van Gogh 👨‍🎨

🌶 Daily highlight 🌶

Google added a switch for publishers to opt-out of becoming AI training data. Similar to Open AI letting websites block its crawler, Google’s taking the safe route given the lack of clarity around IP / copyright laws with respect to AI.

In many ways Google’s move is more important, as while companies could have simply blocked Open AI’s crawler, doing the same for Google would have resulted in a website not getting indexed by Search 🔍

The launch comes the same day that Medium announced it’ll block AI crawlers, with a nascent ‘anti AI-crawler’ media coalition in the works.

Where this topic lands will have major implications for product builders in the AI space. Generative-AI products based on real-time information will be much less powerful with limited access to the web🦼

♨️ Latest launches

Big tech

• Apple Wallet integrates with UK banks via the Open Banking API

• Reddit to no longer let users opt out of personalized ads

• Meta unveils an AI assistant, personality chatbots, and an AI studio

• Microsoft tests a DALL-E powered image generator in Paint

• Adobe launches a web-version of Photoshop

General and early-stage

• Disney announces a password sharing crackdown in Canada

• Senser launches its AI-enhanced observability platform

• Post ships support for newsletter creation

• Valve launches Counter Strike 2

• Blend unveils generative-AI personalized clothing guides

🔍 Other good finds

• Goin’ global. Stripe’s internal data on the creator economy

• Pay up. Court upholds $18 hourly rate for NYC delivery workers

• Surveillance state. Food delivery robot gets subpoenaed by LAPD

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- Amol