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Starlink becomes a phone data provider, Instacart ships AI search, IG tests new user controls

Good morning! Range Rover is equipping new models with a “Body and Soul” car seat that vibrates in tune with the music drivers are playing. Get ready to feel the beat 🎼

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

SpaceX launched Starlink Mobility, a new satellite internet product. Mobility offers users global coverage from even the most remote locations, and allows for internet to be accessed on-the-go.

The service is tailored towards mobile operations in remote areas, such as emergency services, trucking, and buses. Starlink is slowly morphing into a phone data provider 📱

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

  • Instagram tests new user controls for recommended posts 

  • Google Nest ends third-party integrations with notes apps

  • Google rolls out image responses for its Bard AI chatbot

  • Snap launches a ‘My AI Snaps’ feature for paid subscribers

  • Instacart ships an AI search tool powered by ChatGPT

General and early-stage

  • Blink unveils a generative-AI tool for security ops 

  • DistroKid launches a music distribution iPhone app

  • Antimatter ships a meme-based education platform 

  • Atly launches a real-world social mapping platform 

  • Superflow adds reactions to its design feedback tool

🔍 Other good finds

  • Beginner’s luck. On doing user research before writing any code

  • Fender free. US to require auto emergency brakes for new vehicles

  • See thru. Instagram explains its recommendation algorithm

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- Amol