Good morning! Despite not being much of a drinker, Bill Gates just waltzed over to the bar and ordered himself a ~4% stake in Heineken for a casual $1 billion 🍺🍺

Highlight of the day

Amazon Fire TV devices can now directly stream audio to Cochlear hearing implants. This type of feature is a big accessibility win for folks with hearing limitations, as it allows them to clearly hear the TV while also hearing people around them. Amazon's Fire TV range now joins select Apple and Android devices with similar capabilities.

Features & products hot off the press

Big tech

• Stripe expands tap-to-pay to Android

• Spotify beta tests an Open AI powered AI-DJ feature 

• YouTube Music lets users create their own custom radio stations 

• Microsoft to test Bing chat tones and longer chat sessions 

• Twitch lets streamers tag channels in stream titles 

• Uber overhauls the UI of its mobile app

General and early-stage

• Privy ships an embedded wallets feature for developers

• Artifact publicly launches its social news-reading app 

• Mercedes to add Google Maps and YouTube to its vehicles 

• SolanaPay launches a tap-to-pay feature for Solana

• Notion opens up public access to its AI assistant features 

Other good finds

• Making moves. How Instagram is quietly following the WeChat playbook

• That's my doc.. Amazon closes $3.9b purchase of One Medical

• Not just yet. AI-generated image in a book lose their copyright protections

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-  Amol