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#AI-In-The-Wild - So Agatha Christie is back from the dead, kinda. The BBC's Maestro series has brought her back to life through AI and an actress to teach a writing course. Is this cool or creepy?

Zomato Removes Quick Delivery Tab After Just 4 Months
Zomato Quick was allowing users to get ordered food delivered to their doorsteps in approximately 15 minutes. It was also available as part of Zomato Everyday, which was heavily promoted on the landing page of the main app. But it's now been removed from the main app in several cities, possibly for repositioning, with a possibility of a later release.

Epic Wins Major Victory Over Apple In Ongoing Lawsuit
Epic Games is a video game developer, and Apple is a tech giant that owns the App Store. Today, a judge ruled that Apple can no longer collect fees on purchases made outside of apps and can't restrict how developers point users to external purchase options. This is a big win for Epic, which has been fighting Apple's 30% commission on in-app purchases.

Wikipedia - Introduces AI-assisted editing tools to aid human editors with background research, translation, and onboarding tasks.

Zoho Creator - Introduces CoCreator, a new AI-powered tool that enables users to build applications using voice or written prompts, process diagrams, or business requirement documents, with features like Idea-to-App Generation, AI-powered data cleansing, and AI Skills for natural language input and task automation.

Duolingo - Added 148 new language courses, doubling its total offerings and expanding access to its most popular non-English languages in all 28 supported user interface languages.

JetBrains - Releases open AI model "Mellum" for code generation, a 4 billion-parameter model trained on 4 trillion tokens for code completion and integration into developer tooling.

Legend List | A high-performance list component for React Native

Zev | A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands

Pdf Craft | PDF craft can convert PDF files into various other formats.

Avoiding Skill Atrophy In The Age of AI
The rise of AI assistants in coding has sparked concerns of skill atrophy, as developers rely on external tools to handle mental tasks, potentially eroding critical thinking and problem-solving skills, especially for routine tasks, with research suggesting a decline in independent problem-solving and a loss of deep comprehension in coding.