Happy Friday! Meta refreshed its design system, with the company updating its logo with a “more confident” blue that’s “bolder, electric, and everlasting”. Wonder how much money and effort went into that visionary change 🧙💵

🌶 Daily highlight 🌶

WhatsApp unveiled Flows, creating a richer in-app shopping experience. Without leaving the app, users will be able to book appointments, pick seats on a flight, fill out forms, and sign up for events 🪇

Meta won’t charge businesses an incremental fee for using Flows, instead tying Flows to its existing model which charges businesses for interactions related to “marketing, utility, authentication, and service”.

With over 2 billion MAU’s, WhatsApp still feels like a sleeping giant that’s nowhere near it’s potential in terms of monetization and delivering utility. Launches Flows is a big step this direction, edging the product closer towards something resembling a WeChat-style “super app” 🚢

♨️ Latest launches

Big tech

• YouTube unveils a standalone app for creating & editing videos

• YouTube Shorts gets a generative-AI video creation feature

• WhatsApp launches in-chat business payments in India

• Uber Eats to accept food stamps from 2024

• Facebook rolls out a multiple personal profiles feature

General and early-stage

• Mercury unveils a fundraising platform for startups

• GitHub launches passkey support to all users

• Max to offer a live sports tier from October

• Sizzle launches an AI-powered learning app

• New Forethought unveils a natural-language workflow tool

• Proton ships its own CAPTCHA service

🔍 Other good finds

• Deel Speed. Growing Deel to $300m ARR in four years 

• Recurring monies. Snap hits 5m subscribers for Snap+

• It’s on. Prominent authors sue OpenAI on copyright grounds

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol