Happy Friday! A Utah resident mistook her AirPod as a vitamin, and ended up gulping it down while going for a walk. Apparently she’s not the first to do so, and turns out swallowed AirPods can still record the sound of one’s stomach 🤨

🌶 Daily highlight 🌶

Roam launched a platform for purchasing homes with an assumable low-rate mortgage included. All homes listed on Roam are “mortgage assumable”, meaning that buyers can take over existing mortgage terms from sellers 🏡

All government-backed loans (e.g. FHA and VA loans) are legally eligible for assumption, meaning Roam can address ~1/3 of all mortgages in the U.S. The product is currently live in GA, AZ, CO, TX and FL.

It’s a great time for Roam to launch. Buyers can access mortgage rates at a ~50% discount to market, while sellers see their homes become substantially more attractive to buyers given the added benefit of lower rates 🎉 

So… When will this launch in the Bay Area??

♨️ Latest launches

Big tech

• TikTok tests adding Wikipedia snippets in search results

• Tesla unveils a new Powerwall with a built-in solar inverter

• Amazon ships improved visual search with new AR features

• Adobe rolls out automatic quality-editing in Premier Pro

• Pinterest adds collage creation functionality

General and early-stage

• Hulu adds a top 15 row to surface trending content

• Citizens Bank unveils a new startup-focused private bank

• WordPress launches support for ActivityPub / Mastodon 

• Replit ships a desktop app for its AI dev tool

• FirstHR launches a HR platform for early-stage startups

🔍 Other good finds

• K-Factor. Product frameworks to increase sharing and virality

• Diversification. How Instacart became an advertising juggernaut

• Unpleased. Unity closes offices after death threats due to fee change

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- Amol