Good morning! A newly declassified government report confirms for the first time that US intelligence agencies buy American’s personal data. This ‘vast amount’ of commercially available data covers web browsing, smartphones, and connected devices. Bye bye, civil liberties 👋

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Amazon tests using AI to summarize customer reviews. The A/B test is live for a subset of US customers, and provides an AI-generated summary of what shoppers liked and disliked about a product 👍 👎

For smaller purchases, this type of summary has real potential to speed up the consideration phase by skipping the need to dig into individual reviews. For larger purchases, I’m not as confident that AI summaries meets the user desire to see what other humans have said 👀

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Instagram ships music sharing and translations for Notes

• YouTube lowers requirements for creator monetization

• Open AI ships new models and cuts prices for GPT3.5

• Google Photos launches new editing tools for paid users

• Google rolls out topics suggestions on desktop Search 

General and early-stage

• Kodem unveils an application security software product 

• Itoka launches an AI-generated music licensing tool 

• Pollen ships a private membership network for freelancers

• Match tests a 72 hour timeboxed dating matches feature

• Beehiiv ships private newsletter functionality

🔍 Other good finds

• Biz case. Evaluating product investments like a finance team 

• Take a shot. Netflix is working on its first live sports event

• A surprise. What the data says on when to schedule meetings

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol