🍎 Apple layoffs: Apple is conducting layoffs that affect around 100 people. Most of the cuts were to people on the Apple Books app team and people on other service teams like Apple News. Read more
🚗 Tesla takes its time: It's been more than a year since Tesla said it would open its Supercharger network to non-Tesla vehicles, but that has yet to happen. There are many potential reasons for the delay, from lower EV demand to Elon Musk axing most of the Supercharger team. Read more
🧷 Another AI wearable: Today Plaud.ai started taking preorders for its NotePin, an AI-powered wearable that takes notes for you. Brian Heater notes that we've seen quite a few companies trying to make AI wearables with little adoption; we'll see if NotePin fares differently. Read more
📲 Back to Snapchat: Snapchat is launching an initiative to help educators better understand the social media platform their students are using. This launch includes a website to help educators learn how students are using it and resources to help educators protect teens on it. Read more
👯 People pleaser: After a six-month hiatus, Google is bringing back Gemini's ability to generate images of people. To start, the feature will be available only to select paying users, as Google looks to get feedback and iterate before rolling the feature out to the public. Read more
💻 Are Google's monopoly cases too late? Today on Equity, we sat down with Neil Chilson, formerly with the FTC and currently at the Abundance Institute, to discuss Google's antitrust cases in online search and ad tech, and to speculate on the outcomes, competition, and the future of AI search. Listen here
