Happy Monday! Wall Street is officially going all-in on AI. Not only has AI driven the majority of gains in the S&P 500 this year, but AI now makes up as much as 40% of open job reqs for some large banks! Wild…

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Wordpress launched paid newsletter functionality. In December, Wordpress first launched its newsletter product which let writers run newsletters using the Wordpress platform. The new functionality lets writers add paid subscriptions and paywalled content, and can be used by all Wordpress blogs ✍️

While Wordpress’ newsletter won’t have the bells and whistles of Substack, it offers creators more flexibility to operate a newsletter as part of a broader platform (such as including web content and running a store) 🕸️

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Gmail launches overhauled search functionality on mobile 

• YouTube to stop removing false election fraud claims

• Shopify launches a Shop cash rewards program 

• Amazon discontinues Alexa’s celebrity voices

General and early-stage

• Fetch launches its remote driven car delivery service 

• Dumme ships an AI video editor to create Shorts

• Shadow Drive cuts prices for its cloud storage service

• Artifact now uses AI to rewrite clickbait-ey headlines

• Lumari launches a social sandbox adventure game

• Sigma unveils a contextual AI assistant for its browser

🔍 Other good finds

• In the weeds. Moving fast and navigating uncertainty as a PM

• Call me maybe. Amazon explores mobile phone service for Prime

• Self written. A GPT-4 bot becomes an expert Minecraft player

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol