Happy Friday! Musk and Zuckerberg have been trading barbs on social for a while, and the latest escalation has seen Zuck accept Musk’s challenge to fight IRL in Las Vegas’ Octagon. Praying this one comes through 🍿

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Figma expanded free access to its design tools for all US school students who have Chromebooks. While Figma already has a free tier, students and educators will get all the features of its Enterprise Plan spanning Figma and Figjam without paying a cent.

It’s a great strategy by Figma to broaden its network effects by entrenching itself in the next generation of users. Colleges and universities are next 🏫

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Google Cloud launches an anti-money-laundering tool for banks

• Microsoft to increase the monthly price of Xbox Game Pass 

• Instagram ships a feature letting users download public Reels 

• Twitch lets users pay to pin messages to top of streamers feed 

• Instacart increases the size of its physical Smart Carts

General and early-stage

• DuckDuckGo ships its Windows browser in public beta

• Inflection debuts a suite of foundational AI models

• Bumble tests a standalone BFF app for finding friends

• Opera launches an updated browser with an AI sidebar 

• Stability AI unveils new text-to-image models

🔍 Other good finds

• Key actions. How to measure success for early-stage products

• Interchange. Robinhood gets into credit cards through acquisition

• Good life. Robots are learning to do chores by watching YouTube

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol