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Robinhood increases APY to 4.15%, YouTube rolls out livestream co-hosting, Daniel Ek gets into AI body health-scanning

Happy Monday! All you Love is Blind fans better get ready for an onslaught of GM vehicles next season. A green future awaits 🌱, as GM and Netflix just announced a partnership to promote GM's EV range across Netflix TV shows and movies.

Highlight of the day

Robinhood increases APY to 4.15% for Gold members. The company's aggressively increased it's savings rate following each Fed rate rise, as a way to hook users into it's higher LTV premium subscription offering. At $5 a month, it's a net positive for most consumers who aren't already taking advantage of high-interest savings accounts.

Features & products hot off the press

Big tech

  • YouTube rolls out livestream co-hosting feature on iOS and Android

  • Twitter to charge businesses $1k / month to keep gold checkmarks

  • Twitter announces creator revenue sharing for reply thread ads

  • Apple to launch Apple Pay in South Korea

  • Tesla raises Model Y prices after new EV tax credit rules

General and early-stage

  • Waverly labs unveils a translation app supporting 20 languages

  • Neko Health launches a body health-scanner product

  • Broadcast ships an AI tool for writing internal weekly-updates  

  • Beehiiv launches custom website functionality for writers

  • Wealthfront increases its cash account APY to 4.05%

Other good finds

  • Eeke Milliano. How to foster product innovation and big thinking 

  • YolkedGPT. Sports Illustrated is using AI to generate fitness advice

  • Not so fast. Decentralized social network pulled from China App Store

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