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Happy Friday! Today's good news does not disappoint. Perfect for weekend chatter.

• Amazon launched humanoid robots. “Digit” is too cute. And also terrifying.
• Open AI made a ChatGPT guide for Teachers. Teachers get everything but 💰.
• Air taxis are coming to LA & NYC via Delta... But for premium customers first.
• WhatsApp will let you log into two accounts at once. Hooray for those managing work accounts!

Today’s product highlight is a fun one, but first, here’s some good news.

• Canva now natively supports Lottie. We love to see it!
• YouTube launched a hub for authoritative news. A blow to the rabbit hole?
• ChatGPT can officially browse the internet (again). Bad news for those sneaking past gated content. 😉

Apple’s new launch is our top read for today, but to be real, it’s more mixed news than “good news.”

• Apple announced a new Apple Pencil. Good: Affordability. Bad: The rest.
• You can embed Snapchat content now. Ephemeral content had its moment.
• AI funding reached $17.9 billion. 🚧 The way everyone’s working “AI” into their products right now.
• Skip to Stripe's news.

Our eyes are bleeding from all the heady reading this morning, but in a good way.

• Marc Andreessen posted a "Techno-Optimist Manifesto." TechTwitter is split 🍿
• The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups is here. 🚧 We 👀 beehiiv!
• Spotify launched a merch hub. K, but I want a shirt with my Year In Review persona (i.e. “Genre Fluid”).

Apparently, it's national Boss’s Day in the U.S. Good news: If the 1.541 million people employed by Amazon each pitch in $324, they can buy Jeff Bezos a yacht as nice as his current one. 🤭

• Ferrari is accepting crypto. Fashionably late and brazenly bullish.
• AI read an ancient scroll. Sign up for our AI newsletter to see what AI does next.
• Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for real. Gamers in the EEA get a free license to stream via "any cloud game streaming service of their choice.”

Reminder not to take any fortune cookies or glowing amulets from a stranger today — it’s Friday the 13th. In other news...

• Teslas are getting third-party apps. Can’t wait to see what will launch next!
• PlayStation’s accessibility controller is coming. Pre-orders are open.
• Netflix House to open in 2025. Netflix will have permanent retail sites with rotating installations. If you see this: 〇△☐, run.

Well, hello there. Below, we’re talking about cool stuff that came out of Adobe MAX 2023, but here’s what else is open in our tabs this morning.

• Atlassian is acquiring Loom for $975 million. Props to this community for being early adopters.
• BMW is working on hands-free driving. We like this idea SO much more than a heated seat subscription.
• Birkenstock had its IPO. We don’t comment on financials here, but we do support founder vibes.

Gm, all. In this morning's news, we’re reading less about robots and more about AI’s impact on everything it touches.

• Visualize how transformers work. A slick site to understand LLMs.
• ChatGPT hit 15.6 million downloads. How many are from our own readers? 🙋‍♀️
• Tesla’s building a home for its supercomputer. I think of it as a big brain for all those self-driving Teslas.

We’re trying something new and have rounded up even more tech news – only the best from our own #tech-news Slack channel at Product Hunt.

• Disney made a real WALL-E: Hello, new fren. 🥺
• Google Japan made a giant keycap: It’s open-source. DIY Halloween costume sorted.
• Personal flight is here: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a “jet ski in the sky.”
• OpenAI has chip ambitions: Your yearbook photos are putting a strain on GPU.
• Amazon Prime Day is now: Reading Wirecutter’s round up and asking myself, once again, if I want to remain in Apple’s walled garden.

Spacesuits are cool. We all know that. But they can always get cooler. 

Prada has partnered with NASA to build spacesuits for the next moon mission in 2025. Don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to the Paris Fashion Week reveal.