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What happened: In the concert hall "Crocus City Hall" before the concert of the band "Picnic", armed people in camouflage opened fire. There is a fire in the building, the roof is burning.

Alexey Navalny spent a decade as a relentless critic of the Kremlin, defying authority in the face of arrests, poisonings, and threats. Imprisoned since 2021, Navalny continued to challenge Putin's regime, even as his treatment in the remote Arctic penal colony grew increasingly harsh. On February 16th, 2024, Russian prison authorities announced his death at the age of 47.

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has unveiled a new form of artificial intelligence that creates realistic video based on text prompts, prompting stunned reactions online. The text-to-video model, named Sora, has “a deep understanding of language” and can generate “compelling characters that express vibrant emotions,” OpenAI said in a blog post on Thursday.

The reliability of Generative AI (GenAI) is in question once again as Google's Gemini chatbot, previously known as Bard, erroneously reported that the 2024 Super Bowl has already taken place, complete with detailed and fictitious statistics.

Every entity that releases an AI model faces the pivotal decision of setting ethical limits on its conversations. Goody-2, however, pushes the envelope by refusing to engage in any discussion at all.

Starting in May, Microsoft 365 subscribers will have the opportunity to leverage the AI-driven Copilot feature for sifting through their OneDrive documents. As discovered by Neowin in a Microsoft 365 roadmap update, this enhancement aims to facilitate users in querying and extracting data from their stored documents without the necessity of opening each file individually.

Over the last seven years, Bitcoin has delivered an impressive average annual return of 44%, with recent data showing over $38.5 million in net inflows into Bitcoin spot ETFs within the last 15 trading sessions.

Meta's recent announcement to discontinue the Facebook Groups API has caused significant concern among businesses and social media marketers. The decision, detailed in the release of Facebook Graph API v19.0 on January 23, will see the Groups API, a tool crucial for scheduling posts to Facebook Groups, phased out within 90 days. This move threatens to impact developers and businesses reliant on automation and scheduling for social media engagement.