Good morning! Levi's is testing AI-generated clothing models to "increase diversity". Unsurprisingly, the announcement didn't mention the convenient cost efficiencies of not having to pay humans for those shoots 💰💰

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Pinterest is testing adding shopping 🛍️ capabilities from its collage-making app. Users can now access 'Shuffles' on Pinterest and tap to see price, brand, and product metadata. It's no surprise given the CEO recently said that "integrating shopping into the core product experience" is one of Pinterest's four key strategic priorities.

 ♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Zoom ships AI features to catch up on meetings when you're late 

• Microsoft launches an overhauled Teams app

• Twitter to paywall ability for users tweets to reach the "For You" tab

• TikTok ships a branded effects platform for marketers 

• Apple adds new emojis and push notifications to iOS

• YouTube TV launches a billing partnership with Frontier internet

General and early-stage

• Neptype unveils a Python-powered spreadsheet for data science 

• Polygon launches a zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine 

• Arc announces its "web operating system" iOS app 

• Flare launches a Mac app for its sneaker & retail software

• Dune ships a "Query Explanations" data feature powered by LLMs

🔍 Other good finds

• Optimism-free. Founder sentiment plummets post SVB debacle

• Full assault. Binance CEO sued by CFTC over trading violations

• 2 Fast. What one person was able to do using AI in 30 minutes

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol