Happy Monday! That is, unless you’re a Swiftie who resold your Taylor Swift tickets for a profit.. Ticketmaster just turned over all resale data to the IRS, who naturally are demanding their cut of the spoils 👮

🌶 Daily highlight 🌶

Roblox rolled out the ability to create and sell in-experience subscriptions. Having amassed a user base of 50+ million DAUs, Roblox is increasingly focusing on monetizing its most highly engaged users 💰

Just a few months after launching it’s own version of NFTs, Roblox’s latest move continues down the path of leveraging developer creativity to unlock new revenue – both for creators as well as Roblox itself.

With subscriptions, Roblox has made a fun choice to pay developers in ‘Robux’, its virtual currency, despite charging users in local currency. Given Roblox takes a spread on conversions, it’s effectively charging an added fee when developers cash out.

With its stock price down ~50% in the past few months, it’s no surprise that Roblox is being aggressive in this way 🧨

♨️ Latest launches

Big tech

• Microsoft adds DALLE-3 support to Bing

• Amazon announces Prime Video ads, as well as an ad-free tier

• Meta ships simplified switching between Threads accounts

• TikTok tests adding Google results into its Search feature

• Amazon adds generative-AI voice search to Fire TV

General and early-stage

• JusticeText launches an AI evidence transcription product

• Unity unveils a new pricing model after community backlash 

• 1Password rolls out passkey support for apps and extensions

• Carrots&Cake ships a kids screen time monitoring tool

• FinanceGPT unveils its AI financial analyst product

🔍 Other good finds

• Harnessing Messi. Inside Apple’s plan to change sports streaming

• Beyond human. Confessions of a viral AI writer

• Open road. Newsom vetos bill requiring safety drivers for robotrucks

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol