Eastern Europeans buy up property in the West as Putin steps up ‘war on nerves’ - Sign of the times. Folks throughout eastern Europe are buying western european properties, especially in Spain, as a backup plan in case the Ukraine war spreads to other countries. edition.cnn.com #
Monday, April 15, 2024
WhatsApp trials Meta AI chatbot in India, more markets - This will make available generative AI tech without WhatsApp chats for about 500 million people. Globally WhatsApp has 2 billion users. That's a lot of people. Meta also announced the release of its latest open source language model Llama 3. techcrunch.com #
Bluesky lifted its ban on heads of state signups - I find this mildly amuzing. How different the rollouts of social networks are compared to the early daysvof Twitter. I feel a bit bad that the heads of state missed out on Bluesky's showing-everyones-ass-phase. Hopefully they'll find another way to welcome them. theverge.com #
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