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#LlamaAI - Mark Zuckerberg's got a secret: Meta's making money from Llama AI models, despite saying it's not their business model. They're getting a cut of revenue from host partners like AWS and Google Cloud. Guess that's one way to fund their $60 billion AI spending spree! 🤭

#BotManagement - Cloudflare has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots. The free, opt-in tool lures crawlers down a path of links to AI-generated decoy pages. The company says this makes it easier to fingerprint malicious bots for Cloudflare’s list of bad actors. 🕷️

Tata Group Companies Partner With Tesla, Supply $2 Billion Worth Of Components
Tata Group companies have entered into partnerships with EV maker Tesla. Companies like Tata AutoComp, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Technologies, and Tata Electronics have contributed to the $2 billion worth of Indian supplies sent to Tesla in FY24.

TechCrunch Sold Again: Yahoo Offloads Tech News Site To Regent
TechCrunch is a popular tech news site founded in 2005, known for its startup and tech industry coverage. Yahoo, its current owner, has sold it to private equity firm Regent, which also acquired Foundry, the company behind PCWorld and Macworld, just a day earlier. This marks another change in ownership for TechCrunch, which has been part of AOL, Verizon, and Apollo Global Management in the past.

Discord - Introduces Video Quests on Mobile, a new ad format featuring video trailers and announcements on mobile apps.

Reddit - Introduces a redesigned messaging system, consolidating private messages into the Reddit Chat element with new features such as pinned chats, unread filter, and spam folder.

Threads - Introduced new features including personalized profiles with up to 10 topics, suggested trending topics for posts, customizable feeds, response limiting, and an improved video player with a pinned progress bar.

Figma Slides - Adds PowerPoint import/export, video controls, slide numbers, reusable components, and object animation features.

ReactOS - Introduces LiveUSB support, improved performance and stability, native ZIP support, enhanced audio capabilities, and security updates.

Aiopandas | Lightweight Pandas monkey-patch that adds async support to map, apply, applymap, aggregate, and transform, enabling seamless handling of async functions with controlled max_parallel execution.

Cmdk | Fast, unstyled command menu React component.

Lerobot | LeRobot: Making AI for Robotics more accessible with end-to-end learning

Efficient SQL And JSON Handling
Learn how to leverage Oracle's JSON-relational duality views, async queries, and views to improve your database interactions. Discover how to create JSON responses, perform atomic updates, and manage versioning with flashback queries and validity periods.

Meta Reverts Messenger Logo
Meta's decision to revert its Messenger logo to the original blue design has sparked confusion and backlash, raising questions about the company's strategic direction and commitment to its visual identity, amidst criticism of Mark Zuckerberg's leadership and branding decisions.

Amazon's Document-based Meetings
Amazon's unique meeting culture relies on reading documents before discussions, eliminating the need for presentations and fostering more efficient, bias-free conversations. Sr. Developer Advocate shares benefits and limitations of this approach, including reduced nervousness for presenters and increased accessibility.