Happy Thursday! The FTC has sued Amazon for using dark patterns to juice Prime signups. The lawsuit claims that Amazon knowingly deceived customers into subscribing to Prime, and subsequently made it difficult to cancel Prime. Growth PMs, beware 🫢 

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Discord announced new monetization features for creators. Servers will be able to create Media Channels, which are paywalled channels that focus on exclusive videos and photos. Creators can also sell digital items such as e-books or wallpapers as one-time downloadables 🖥️

All of these additional monetization angles are tied together by Server Shop, a new product that acts as a Shopify of sorts for servers.

As Discord explores new ways to make money for itself and it’s creators, the e-commerce hub is going to be an interesting one to watch 🔥

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Apple ships visionOS SDK for building Vision Pro apps

• Netflix updates ‘Top 10’ rankings to focus on views

• Dropbox unveils AI search and generative AI summaries 

• YouTube to launch its first official shopping channel

• Apple auto assigns Apple ID passkeys for iOS 17 users

• Deepmind unveils an AI model trained for robotic arms

General and early-stage

• Codenotary unveils a tamper-proof cloud database service 

• Patreon adds e-commerce tools and free fan memberships 

• Harness ships a generative-AI assistant for developers

• Danti unveils a search engine for satellite data

• Notarize ships a digital identity verification product

🔍 Other good finds

• Causality. How and when to use A/B tests for product experiments

• Paradigm 2. Microsoft to build quantum supercomputer in 10 years

• The next phase. How Spotify’s podcast plans went off the rails

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol