Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Hope you were able to rest, spend time with friends and family, and enjoy the weekend!

In other news, Open AI’s had to pause the ChatGPT <> Bing integration, as users were able to access paywalled content by asking ChatGPT to provide a URLs full text 📝

🌶 Daily highlight 🌶

Twitter rolled out multiple features to limit access to its platform. Blue Subscribers are now limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, while non-subscribers can only read 600. Unregistered users can no longer access Twitter, and must create an account to view tweets 🧨

While Musk says its because AI companies were scraping its data, the moves are clearly designed to increase new signups and paid conversion. Both features are short-sighted, but in particular limiting free users to 600 views per day seems like a phenomenal way to kill power user engagement.

At a time when countless competitors are propping up, Twitter’s taking on major strategic risk in the name of short-term revenue 🤔

♨️ Latest launches

Big tech

• Spotify tests group listening on desktop

• WhatsApp ships QR code data transfers across devices

• Meta to let EU users download apps through Facebook

• ByteDance launches a music creation app in beta

• GitHub rolls out an updated feed-like UI

General and early-stage

• AudioPen launches a voice-to-text conversion app

• Tidal increases prices for across its subscription tiers

• Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia

• Vowel kills its video-conferencing software

• 1Password launches in-app family account management

🔍 Other good finds

• Data driven. Partnering with analytics as a product team

• Bottleneck. Apple cuts Vision Pro production and pushes back v2

• Gold feet. Goldman Sachs explores cutting ties with Apple Card

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol