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Hello, Daily Digest readers. It’s the day before Friday. Care to show us your streak number? Oh, and are you one of Facebook’s 3 billion monthly active users? 🤯 Just curious.
In today’s newsletter:
- Mobile app gamification campaigns made easy
- Get your blue birdie back on Twitter
- Build an app, CMS, or portal from a prompt
Happy Hump Day. The Twitter X saga continues. As it turns out, many companies have a copyright on ‘X’, most notably Meta, which owns the trademark for social networking. Could there be a summer of lawsuits?
In today’s Digest:
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Speak your apps into existence.
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Can’t remember something? Ask AI.
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Go from rose bud to rose bush through journaling.
Good morning. Experts at Forrester predict that Twitter... sorry, I mean X, will either shut down or be acquired within the next 12 months. What do you think?
In today’s Digest:
- Beauty: In the eye of the orb holder?
- How to stalk your competitors on autopilot
- Borrow from only the best LinkedIn posts
The Twitter bird we love and adore is no more. Elon has decided to ax the iconic brand in favor of “X.” A callback to his PayPal days. The logo has already changed, and there are likely more updates on the way, but what isn’t known is what tweets are going to be called.
Today’s the day, after months of anticipation, Barbenheimer is here. If you don’t know what Barbenheimer is (how?), it’s the combined release date of Oppenheimer and The Barbie Movie, two drastically different films which have both captivated the internet.
In Today’s Digest:
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Bored with social media? Give your friends the keys.
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No need to code with this Figma plugin.
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First-time founder? Calculate your salary.
According to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is racing to catch up with OpenAI and Google. Internally, their new chatbot is apparently being called ‘Apple GPT.' As Danny Lev pointed out, “Apple's focus on privacy could be a big advantage in the AI race.” What do you think?
Good morning. There's a new player on the LLM scene. Meta just dropped Llama 2, and it comes with better language generation, more layers of safety, a broad set of partners – and a commercial license. According to Meta’s announcement, Llama 2 was pretrained on “publicly available online data sources,” 2 trillion tokens, and has double the context length of Llama 1.
In today’s Digest:
- Knowledge management software with principles
- AI email generation that sounds like you
- Post-breakup consolation from GPT
Bad news: After a last-hour attempt to avoid the worst, a judge at the Amsterdam District Court has officially declared the e-bike company VanMoof bankrupt. Good news: Not Impossible Labs has developed a haptic suit that allows deaf and hard-of-hearing people to feel vibrations and textures of music. How cool?
In today’s Digest:
- A simple productivity system
- A free Calendly alternative
- A team of virtual hackers
Welcome to Monday. Threads is continuing on its journey to gather as many users as possible and it doesn’t look to be slowing down anytime soon. The Twitter rival now has one-fifth of Twitter’s weekly active users. Do you think Threads will take the crown, or is it a hype train?
