Good morning! Mark Zuckerberg just won gold medal at a local Bay Area Ju Jitsu competition. Given Meta’s stock price is up ~90% this year, it looks like the mat isn’t the only place Zuck’s been practicing his Ju Jitsu skills 💸

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Uber shipped a flight booking tool for its UK customers in partnership with Hopper. Uber users will be able to book a flight as they would on other platforms, and for major airlines users can also select seats from within the Uber app 🪑

The move is the latest step towards Uber’s aims of becoming a one-stop shop for all travel booking needs. Counting down the days till Uber space becomes a thing 🚀

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• IBM introduces a host of new AI services and models

• Meta open sources a multisensory AI model 

• OpenAI announces a tool to explain its LLM behaviors

• Amazon launches a service for buying physical items in games

• Meta test performance-based payouts for Reels creators

• TikTok launches a hub to help brands connect with audiences

General and early-stage

• Charlie unveils a banking app for retirement 

• GitHub expands sensitive info auto-blocking to all public repos 

• Eventbrite adds a ChatGPT-enabled event planning tool

• Runway expands public access to its image-to-video model

• 8fig ships a cashflow tool for e-commerce companies

🔍 Other good finds

• Efficiency. How Amazon Prime reduced infra costs by 90%

• Middle Road. APA issues health advisory for teen social media use

• Lemon publishers. TikTok eyes a book publishing move

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol