Happy Monday! After 25 glorious years, Netflix sent out it’s final DVDs on Friday. As a farewell, all customers who have a DVD rental get to permanently keep their discs. My question – who on earth are these people!?

🌶 Daily highlight 🌶

TipTop launched a marketplace to turn your junk into cash.

Started by the Postmates founder, TipTop integrates with a users Gmail and Amazon accounts to scan for past purchases. TipTop then makes instant cash offers on those items, while also handling pickup / delivery logistics 🚚

It’s also building a second product for e-commerce sellers, allowing them to offer ‘guaranteed buybacks’ at pre-determined prices. If the economics work out for TipTop, it’d be compelling to e-commerce companies from the lens of increasing checkout conversion 💰

Overall this feels like a very tough execution challenge, but if TipTop cracks it, it’s going to unlock a giant pile of money.

♨️ Latest launches

Big tech

• Google launches its generative-AI search experience to teens

• Spotify adds auto-generated transcripts to podcasts

• Amazon ships an enterprise tier for CodeWhisperer

• Apple revamps iCloud with drive and mail features

• Intel unveils its Meteor Lake next-generation chip

General and early-stage

• Zapier ships an AI-powered flowchart tool

• Pilot unveils a social travel hub product

• AMC Plus launches an ad-supported tier

• MoneyGram ships a non-custodial wallet

• Mistral AI makes its LLM free for all users

🔍 Other good finds

• Breakthroughs. The interplay of AI, hardware, and VR

• Free speech. Supreme Court to hear social media moderation cases

• Stepping in. How states are filling Congress’ AI regulation void

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol