Happy Thursday 👋 Lionel Messi is officially coming to Inter Miami! In another big win for Tim Cook this week, Apple TV’s MLS season pass just got a lot more attractive. Such is Messi’s stature that it looks like he’s getting a cut of the Apple <> MLS partnership revenue for himself 🐐🐐🐐

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Google rolled out Enterprise Search for its Gen App Builder. The product lets companies rapidly spin up customized internal search chatbots that are powered by generative AI 🤖

Mayo Clinic has been using the tool to reduce the load on clinicians, as language based search reduces the need to manually trawl through vast amounts of data.

Considering Google’s prowess in Search, I’d be surprised if this didn’t give Open AI a run for its money in the internal search world 🌏

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Amazon to add Affirm’s BNPL tech to Amazon Pay

• Google uplifts Bard’s logic and reasoning capabilities 

• Apple unveils a real-time nearby EV charging spots feature

• TikTok expands its paywalled content feature

• Meta rolls out verified badges in India

General and early-stage

• Contextual AI unveils its enterprise LLM platform

• Minecraft officially launches on Chromebooks

• Pornhub asks users to oppose age-verification laws

• Automattic ships an AI writing assistant for WordPress

• Luka unveils Blush, an app for improving dating skills

🔍 Other good finds

• Taste & feel. The power of customer obsession at Figma 

• The jugular. The SEC is trying to freeze Binance’s assets

• Eyeballs. Amazon explores an ad-supported Prime Video tier

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol