Good morning! Panera Bread has officially evolved beyond wallets and phones. Thanks to a rollout of Amazon's new payment system, Panera customers can now pay by simply scanning their palm 👋

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

GitHub announced Copilot X, an update to its AI programming product. New features include chat functionality (incl. letting users ask questions about code snippets), automated descriptions for pull requests, as well as a document query tool. The Microsoft train chugs along 🚄

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Microsoft publicly launches Loop, its Notion competitor 

• Epic ships Unreal Editor for Fortnite, giving 40% of revenue to creators 

• Epic is unifying all of its asset marketplaces into a single store 

• Instagram tests ads in search results as well as new 'reminder ads'

• Apple TV paywalls its previously free offering for Friday Night Baseball 

General and early-stage

• Brex announces a travel management solution 

• Wealthfront increases its cash account APY to 4.3%

• Valve beta launches a new version of Counter-Strike 

• Ubisoft announces an AI tool to generate dialogue for NPCs 

• Checkout.com ships virtual and physical card issuing

• Opera adds ChatGPT and AI summarization features to its browser

🔍 Other good finds

• Tis The Season. Stanford's ultimate guide to OKRs

• Pay to play. Adobe's take on the ethics of AI generated images

• Fully Loaded. SEC charges Lindsay Lohan with crypto violations

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- Amol