Good morning! "Sean K" from Starbucks learned a costly lesson yesterday - verify your test notification isn't going out on production to all iOS users everywhere... 

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Amazon opened up its Sidewalk network as a platform for connected gadgets. Sidewalk lets devices get a small amount of internet bandwidth from nearby home networks that have devices with Sidewalk enabled (e.g. Alexa, Ring).

Developers can now integrate consumer IoT devices (e.g. pet trackers, smart locks) with the network, which lets those devices stay connected to the internet even if they're far away from a router. 

Given the network now covers 90% of the US population, expect to see a deluge of "Sidewalk-enabled" products from consumer hardware companies.

 ♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Google to display a new 'perspectives' carousel in search results 

• Google and Replit integrate to take on GitHub's Copilot

• Google rolls out education features on Chrome and Classroom

• Apple launches a buy now pay later (BNPL) product 

• Microsoft ships a GPT-4 assistant for cybersecurity 

• Spotify launches a 'Niche Mixes' feature for personalized mixes

General and early-stage

• Asana ships a suite of work intellignece tools 

• Lockheed Martin announces a moon infrastructure subsidiary 

• Krisp launches on-device transcription of calls and meetings 

• OverDrive kills its library e-book app 

• Behance ships a Freelance Services profile feature

• Saildrone unveils its autonomous research vessel

🔍 Other good finds

• The holy grail. How to acquire users at a near-zero CAC

• "An accident". How Open AI became a consumer tech company

• Two trick pony. ByteDance's IG rival hits Top 10 in the US App Store

🧈 Twitter nugget

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-  Amol