🍪 Google's sleeping again at night

Happy Thursday, friends. This is Bite Sized Beta. We’re like Olive Garden's fettuccine alfredo. Classic, consistent, and always saucy.

But for real, are these bowls burned into anyone else’s childhood memory??

Let us know, and hit reply to this email with your favorite Olive Garden order. We may or may not have saved all the leaked Olive Garden recipes... 👀

Alright, enough of the shenanigans, let’s get to the good stuff.

In the oven this week:

• 🤖 Google’s back

• 🗳️ Poll of the week: Bard vs. ChatGPT

• 🍪 Cookie crumbs: 5 bite-sized headlines + a cool gig

• 🐤 Tweet of the week

• 🍫 Chocolate chips: our 3 favorite finds

• 😂 Snickerdoodles: memes galore

FRESHLY BAKED

GOOGLE'S BACK

It’s Thursday. Aka: that day of the week when everyone’s just trying to haul their lifeless body over to Friday.

The only people not in need of a stiff drink this week?

Google employees.

These guys are walkin’ around with a new spring in their step, cause their company stock shot up almost 15% this week.

Suddenly, they're lords amongst peasants.

What happened?

AI. And lots of it.

Google hosted Google I/O, their big annual conference where they announced a ton of new products. And let’s just say, investors ate it up.

We trekked all the way down to Mountain View for the event and took a real time photo of what went down:

They launched over 100 features, but here’s the top 5 most useful and interesting ones:

1. Bard is getting more visual - it can now show you photos in its responses and take photo inputs too. It's also getting plugins, just like ChatGPT.

2. Google is introducing Search Labs, where you can sign up to see AI summaries shown directly above the results in Google search.

3. AI is getting integrated everywhere: it's now embedded into classic Google products like Search, Docs, and Gmail. You can export Bard generated emails to Gmail, or in Slides, generate an image and plop it directly into your presentation:

4. A new Immersive View in Google Maps lets you visualize every segment of your journey before you go. The anxious drivers in LA just need some reassurance sometimes.

5. AI can now make complex photo edits, with a new tool called Magic Editor in Google Photos. Cause grey skies aren't photogenic enough for IG:

The whole event was just what the doctor ordered after their initial dumpster fire Bard launch.

Sundar is sleepin' good this week 💆🏻‍♂️.

POLL OF THE WEEK

BARD vs CHATGPT 🥊

After I/O, everyone's chirping about Bard. And in our last AI poll, 64% of y'all said you use these AI chatbots. So now, we gotta know: with these latest Bard updates, which chatbot are you using more?

COOKIE CRUMBS

BITE SIZED HEADLINES

FROM THE COOKIE JAR

TWEET OF THE WEEK

A pretty awesome idea - someone figured out that because PPP loans are for 2.5 months of payroll, they could use the loan amounts to estimate revenue and find potential businesses to buy.

CHOCOLATE CHIPS

OUR FAVORITE FINDS

• What happens when you give 50k to ChatGPT to invest

• A marketplace for buying and selling startups. They've got businesses with 2K in revenue to those going for millions. Pretty sweet to see how much everyone’s side hustles are going for these days.

• You know when your parents used to say, “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all?” Well here’s the opposite philosophy, and it's become our new favorite piece of advice.

SNICKERDOODLES

THURSDAY MEMES

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What'd you think about this email?

• 🍪🍪🍪 Top notch!

• 🍪🍪 Meh... could use more milk

• 🍪 Undercooked, do better