💬 Quoted…​​ “[C]omically short sighted and un-Googley…”

Google’s parent company Alphabet saw a 9% drop in stock value following the tech giant’s announcement of Bard, an AI-powered search engine, last week. Employees weren’t happy either, according to a new CNBC report referencing posts made via Google’s internal forum, Memegen.

• “Rushing Bard to market in a panic validated the market’s fear about us,” said one employee referencing Google’s decision to stay in lockstep with Microsoft, which unveiled its own AI-enhanced Bing with ChatGPT integration earlier in the week.

👩‍❤️‍👨 Stat of the Day: 30% of adults have ever used a dating app or site, according to a Pew Research study on online dating released earlier this month. And the youths are on the apps way more than the olds (surprise!): 53% of adults between the ages of 18-29 have ever used a dating app or site, while that number drops to 13% for those ages 65 and over.

🤯 Did You Know?... Most “Close Door” buttons on US elevators don’t actually work. And it's not because they’re broken – they were designed that way. The 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act requires elevator doors to remain open for at least three seconds before closing, and in light of this many manufacturers don’t bother making the button functional.

📖 Worth a Read: I Took the SAT Again in My 50s. Turns Out I Had Learned Nothing → (TIME)