Good morning! Tesla released a video of its Optimus robot completing various tasks, before breaking out into yoga poses with a final ‘namaste’. Guess moving to Texas doesn’t take the NorCal out of you 🧘 

🌶 Daily highlight 🌶

Reddit announced a contributor program to pay users money for quality posts. Users have historically received ‘karma’ and ‘gold’ for upvotes on posts, but neither has translated into real fiat currency. That’s about to change 🔥

Users will receive ~$1 per gold, with minimum karma and gold requirements to qualify for the program. Reddit is also simplifying the UX for users to award gold to posts, with a “long tap” pattern on upvotes to replace the existing complex system of buying coins and translating them to gold.

With X recently launching its revenue sharing program, every major social platform now compensates top-creators for their efforts. Reddit’s late to the party, but they’ve finally recognized that creator payouts are table stakes 🪜

♨️ Latest launches

Big tech

• Open AI rolls out picture and voice prompts for ChatGPT

• Amazon paywalls its Alexa Guard security features 

• Spotify unveils AI-powered podcast language translation

• Snap integrates its chatbot ads with Microsoft’s advertising API

• X paywalls audio and video calls behind its Blue subscription

• Meta expands its verification program to businesses

General and early-stage

• Getty unveils an AI image generator trained on licensed images

• Tinder rolls out a $499 / month high-end membership

• Elicit introduces a tool to automate scientific literature review

• Storybutton launches a podcast audio player for kids

• Evernote shifts legacy users onto its pricier newer plans

🔍 Other good finds

• Hand raisers. A summary of Miro’s product-led growth tactics

• Complexity. The high-tech behind Netflix’s old DVD service

• Terminator. Security firms rely on robots to fill labor shortages

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol