Good morning! A Japanese research study showed participants images while hooked up to an fMRI. They then used Stable Diffusion to reconstruct the images based on the fMRI brain scan data - the results (bottom row below) are absolutely mindblowing....

Highlight of the day

Microsoft adds an AI-powered Copilot to its business app suite. Copilot can write email responses and create a summary of Teams meetings, while also drafting "contextual answers" to customer queries via chat or email. The Microsoft AI train marches on 🚂

Features & products hot off the press

Big tech

• Google rolls out a new UI for Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides 

• Amazon launches a dedicated Oscars hub on Fire TV 

• Tesla cuts prices by between 5-10%

• Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free to use

• Bytedance launches a new social networking app in the US

General and early-stage

• SoundCloud tests a TikTok-like feed for music discovery 

• One Medical ships a redesigned UI for its mobile app 

• Catch shuts down its health benefits offering 

• Medium paywalls its premium Mastodon instance 

• D-ID unveils a chat API for convos with an AI digital human

Other good finds

• Irish coffee. Lessons learned from scaling Stripe

• Red handed. Russian game developer bans and doxes 7k cheaters

• Damn.. Meta to cut thousands of jobs this week

Twitter nugget

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- Amol