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#WhatsApp - WhatsApp is working on a feature that will group replies to specific messages into a thread. Instead of scrolling through chats to see scattered individual replies, the feature will create a dedicated view showing every quoted message connecting back to the original message that started the thread. 🧵

#NarayanMurthy - Infosys founder Narayan Murthy has expressed his reservations about the growing AI hype in India. Murthy said that many so-called AI solutions are just silly, old programs. 🔮

#Meta - This “whistleblower” is 40, and her tell-all book about Facebook is causing drama. Meta's trying to shut it down, but the publisher is fighting back. The book's got tea on Mark Zuckerberg's China plans and some cringeworthy encounters with world leaders. 📕

Xiaomi To Preinstall Phonepe's Indus Appstore On Android Smartphones In India
Xiaomi, a big Chinese smartphone maker, just announced a deal with PhonePe, an Indian fintech company, to preinstall PhonePe's app store, called Indus Appstore, on their Android smartphones in India, alongside Google's Play Store, in a bid to take on Google's dominance in the Indian app market.

Swiggy Introduces Festive Handling Charge Amid Holi Celebrations
Swiggy is a popular Indian food delivery and quick commerce platform. They just introduced a 'festive handling charge' ahead of Holi, adding an extra fee for orders placed during the festival week, which is similar to surge charges imposed by other platforms, varying by location between Rs 8.90 and Rs 20.

Russian Crypto Exchange Co-founder Arrested In India
Garantex is a Russian crypto exchange that has been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for aiding darknet markets and cybercrime actors. Its co-founder, Aleksej Besciokov, was arrested in India on Tuesday, charged with facilitating money laundering and violating US sanctions, with a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

Google Brings Android Games To Windows
Google is a multinational tech giant, and Stadia was its now-defunct cloud gaming platform. Google is expanding its gaming efforts, bringing thousands of Android games to Windows via Google Play Games on PC, with improved custom controls and a playability badge system.

Google Play Store - Introduces a "Pause Play Protect" feature, allowing users to temporarily disable Play Protect to install third-party apps, with automatic reactivation after a day.

Google AI Studio - Added support for summarizing YouTube videos by passing video links through the API, allowing for automatic understanding and parsing of video content.

Gemini - Introduces Deep Research for in-depth information, improved reasoning model with personalized search history integration, and enhanced Flash Thinking Experimental model with larger context window, file uploads, and faster output.

Anon Kode | coding with any LLMs

Letta | Letta (formerly MemGPT) is the stateful agents framework with memory, reasoning, and context management.

Codetracer | CodeTracer is a user-friendly time-traveling debugger designed to support a wide range of programming languages.

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