Good morning! Despite all the calls arguing that remote work is dying, the digital nomad trend continues to boom. The downside? Locals in the likes of Medellin now complain of having to pay ‘Gringo Prices’ 😬

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Google shipped Product Studio, a tool that lets businesses create product imagery using generative-AI. The core value prop is to easily get more value from existing images by being able to edit without needing new photoshoots - e.g. highlighting a seasonal version of a product 🌲

While this tool’s aimed at physical products that are displayed within Google’s ecosystem, this class of product is going to be a huge uplift for UX design and images within tech applications 🐱‍💻

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Google to test ads that appear in its AI chatbot in Search 

• Google expands its Play Games beta to Europe and NZ

• Microsoft adds AI-generated app review summaries to its Store

• Twitter lets Blue subscribers upload two-hour videos

• Sony unveils a handheld PlayStation device 

General and early-stage

• Arc launches HireAI, a remote developer recruiting platform 

• Comcast announces a streaming bundle for Xfinity customers 

• Beehiiv ships audience segmentation tools 

• Opera launches an integrated AI sidebar powered by ChatGPT

• Opentrons unveils a low-cost science lab robot

🔍 Other good finds

• Beyond virality. Understanding TikTok’s new growth patterns 

• The simulation. Parallels between how humans and AI learn

• Breached. Microsoft warns of key infrastructure hacks by China

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol