I'm back :) Surgery went well - thanks for everyone who sent kind messages over the past week!

Open AI just released a research paper assessing the automation impacts of LLMs on the labor market. TLDR - higher income jobs face greater exposure, and 20% of jobs are likely to get the majority of their work automated using current LLMs 🤔

Highlight of the day

Magic Eden launched a Bitcoin marketplace for Ordinals, an NFT-like project that's been all the rage since launching on the Bitcoin blockchain in December. Ordinals have had fairly limited trading tools and products, and as such the launch, which integrates two non-custodial crypto wallets, will be a major step forward in Ordinals adoption 🌐

Features & products hot off the press

Big tech

• Google Cloud and Nvidia to launch AI hardware instances 

• Google opens early access to it's Bard AI chatbot

• DoorDash adds cash payment functionality

• Spotify expands audiobooks to Canada

• Amazon kills DPReview, its camera review site

• WhatsApp ships new group management admin permissions

General and early-stage

• Rescale ships a benchmarking tool to control R&D cloud costs

• Adobe unveils an analytics tool for product teams

• Adobe ships an enterprise tier with generative AI tools

• Duolingo is working on a music learning app 

• Two unveils a consumer-like experience for B2B payments

Other good finds

• A glimpse. Design review recording from the Basecamp founder

• Genie's out. Alpaca releases a version of Meta's leaked LLaMA model

• Slow start. Google's Bard lags behind GPT-4 and Claude

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- Amol