Happy Monday! Elon's war against Substack continues to ramp up. When users now search Twitter for "Substack", the query instead returns generic results for "Newsletter". The 2023 definition of free speech evolves ❌

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

PhonePe, India's largest mobile payments app, launched a hyperlocal commerce app. The Pincode app will initially focus on food, grocery, medicines, and electronics, and is powered by ONDC - an Indian government interoperable"network" initiative that lets buyers and sellers do business regardless of the service they use ⚖️

Given PhonePe commands over 50% of value across the government UPI payment network, the e-commerce foray is a significant move against Amazon and Flipkart.

 ♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Google blocks photo & contact access for personal loan apps

• Microsoft rolls out its AI image generator tool to all Edge users 

• Meta releases its Segment Anything AI model 

• Disney+ launches its ad-supported plan on Roku devices 

• Twitter starts marking Substack links as unsafe

General and early-stage

• June AI launches a generative-AI powered SQL tool

• Dedrone unveils a drone detection offering for major US cities

• Vowel ships a raft of new AI meeting summary features 

• Linear launches project milestones for its roadmap software

• Introspect ships a ChatGPT powered journalling tool

🔍 Other good finds

• Live it. How Uber's CEO and exec team dogfooded their product

• Opaque. Substack refrains from sharing 2022 numbers for crowdfunding

• 💩💩💩 The history of the poop emoji in US law

🧈 Twitter nugget

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