Happy Friday! Safe streets activists in SF are disabling Cruise and Waymo robotaxis by placing traffic cones on the AVs hoods. Looks like the engineers didn’t plan for this particular edge case 😂

🌶 Daily highlight 🌶

TikTok launched TikTok Music, a music streaming service in Brazil and Indonesia. The subscription-only service integrates with users TikTok accounts, and includes the catalogues of major record companies such as UMG, Warner, and Sony 🎺

The service is far from cheap, costing around US$3 per month in both Brazil and Indonesia. However, given TikTok’s burgeoning ad business, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them spin up an ad-supported tier in the near future.

TikTok Music has its work cut out to catch up to Spotify and Apple Music, but given the distribution that TikTok offers to artists, it’s possible that deeper tie-ins with TikTok’s core product can drive meaningful market share gains 📈

♨️ Latest launches

Big tech

• YouTube tests a lock screen feature for Premium users

• Open AI rolls out GPT-4 to all users

• Apple updates Testflight to support visionOS apps

• Amazon unveils discounted healthcare deals for Prime Day

• Snap to shut down it’s Gfycat GIF hub

General and early-stage

• Volkswagen tests its electric self-driving vans in Austin

• Lightning Labs unveils an AI product that can send Bitcoin 

• SparkLoop launches partner profiles for newsletter recs

• Lovense ships a sex toy that integrates with ChatGPT

• Colaboratory launches AI coding features for paid subscribers

🔍 Other good finds

• The work. Understanding yourself and being a high-agency PM

• To the moon. Instagram’s Threads app surpasses 50m installs

• Side load. Meta plans to let EU users download apps through FB

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol