Happy Monday! Microsoft quietly said that it’ll bypass default browser choice when users open links from the Windows Outlook app, instead opening all links in its Edge browser. Looks like Microsoft’s growth PMs have free reign 🏇

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Amazon rolled out Inspire, it’s TikTok-style shopping feed, to all US customers. The Inspire tab displays short-form videos from creators, brands, and other customers. The videos are tailored based on recent search queries, and users can click on a product tile to purchase with very little friction 🛍️

Amazon’s will find it difficult to get the right creators on board as well as to direct traffic to the Inspire tab, however if the feed gets traction it’s going to quickly take no.1 position in the short-form video ecommerce world 🤑

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Google tests running ads between emails on Gmail 

• Google launches garage door controls for its Home app

• Google rolls out Docs AI features to more users

• Microsoft ships new animated backgrounds for teams 

• Apple launches 20 new games on Apple Arcade

General and early-stage

• DeepFloyd unveils an AI model that integrates text into images

• Halo announces its remote-operated car share functionality

• Nova unveils a brand-safety product for generative-AI

• Pokemon to launch a Trading Card Game app

• Sotheby’s ships an on-chain secondary NFT marketplace

🔍 Other good finds

• Commandments. 10 high leverage meetings for PMs

• CDN life. How Warner Bros made HBO Max app less buggy

• Bundled. Ad-supported TVs are the next iteration of FAST

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- Amol