Happy Monday! The founder of Sonic the Hedgehog has been handed a suspended prison sentence for insider trading while working on Final Fantasy VII. Guess he wasn’t quite fast enough… 🏃‍♀️

🌶 Daily highlight 🌶

YouTube tests AI-generated quizzes on educational videos. A small subset of mobile users who’ve interacted with educational videos will see AI-generated quizzes appear on YouTube’s homepage 🏠

The quizzes will test users understanding of a subject covered in a video they’ve recently watched, and users will be guided to re-watch the video if they want to dig in deeper.

While YouTube’s historically been a fairly lean-back experience, the advent of generative-AI can help YouTube address countless use cases that are adjacent to it’s core business 🤖

♨️ Latest launches

Big tech

• Meta launches Threads in beta on Android

• Meta ships upgraded performance on its newest Quest

• Alexa adds local weather news videos on Echo Shows

• Google Calendar ships intra-day working locations  

• Twitch to add Stories and a streamer discovery feed

General and early-stage

• Shazam lets users identify songs from TikTok and IG

• MIT unveils a task-planning tool for home robots

• SpeedyBrand ships a generative-AI product for SEO

• Weflow unveils a Salesforce data hygiene AI tool

• Retro launches a personal photo journaling app

🔍 Other good finds

• Democratic. Threads avoiding a follower graph boosted its launch

• Not so fast. More authors sue Open AI for copyright infringement

• Headed south. Twitter traffic sees sharp drop over course of 2023

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol