Good morning! After 25 years, Netflix will shut down its original DVD business in September. Am I the only one who's shocked to hear that Netflix still sells DVDs 😲

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Instagram rolled out a new feature for adding links to user profiles. Users can now add up to five links to their profile bios to direct followers to external content. Given the feature has been a "top request among creators", it's wild how long its taken Instagram to add this type of feature.

Competition wise, it's a direct shot at the business models of Linktree and other "link-in-bio" solution providers. Let's see how TikTok responds 🔥

 ♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Reddit to start charging for access to its API 

• Samsung launches a news aggregator app

• Amazon adds a Dialogue Boost feature to Prime Video 

• YouTube to ban videos showing "imitable" eating disorder content 

• Adobe adds AI-powered functionality to Lightroom

• Niantic unveils a real-world 'Monster Hunter' game

General and early-stage

• Sonos launches Pro, a music-streaming product for businesses 

• Marvel announces a mobile fitness app featuring superheroes 

• Ada unveils a generative-AI driven customer service suite 

• Slim AI ships a security product for managing software containers

• Cosmonic launches its WebAssembly Kubernetes tool in beta

• Beehiiv ships a collaborative editing feature

🔍 Other good finds

• Butterflies. How fear kills company goal-setting processes

• Tim Apple. How ATT made product-market fit a moving target

• Freedom. Coinbase explores leaving US due to regulatory pressure

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol