Good morning! A YouTube video that plays a blank screen for 24 hours has officially hit 40 million views. Gotta love collecting ad revenue for nothing 💵

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Serve Robotics is partnering with Uber to deploy 2,000 sidewalk delivery robots on Uber Eats. A cohort of Uber Eats users in LA will receive their order via an autonomous robot, with users able to unlock the robot through location-based functionality 🌎

Just a week after Uber and Waymo announced the addition of Robotaxi’s to the Uber app, the Serve Robotics partnership reinforces Uber’s long-term goals of adding autonomy to its platform 🤖

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Uber One drops ride discounts in favor of cash back

• Twitter adds crowdsourced fact checks to images 

• Apple launches its classical music app on Android 

• Amazon tests dine-in payments in India

• Instacart lets users ‘favorite’ shoppers for future orders

General and early-stage

• MyHeritage ships an AI app for improving old photos 

• Web Roulette launches a swipeable web browser 

• UpCodes introduces an AI assistant for building regulations

• Portal launches a Mac app for improving productivity

• Wellplaece ships a dentist supply procurement marketplace 

🔍 Other good finds

• A Trap. Optimizing for payback period instead of CAC

• Roger That. The slow push of New York Times into gaming

• No Rocket. Twitter has lost ~80% of its value since acquisition

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol