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LinkedIn expands its generative AI and Sling TV's latest features.

But first, Substack announced today it's bringing its chat feature to the web

after launching it on mobile last November. Chat allows writers to communicate directly with

their loyal readers right on Substack.

With chat, Substack is not only taking on Twitter, where many back and forth threat discussions

between writers and readers already take place, but also other online communities where writers have been

building out networks of their own, like Discord, Slack, and Telegram.

The announcement comes a few weeks after Substack introduced private Substocks, which are publications that you can host alone or readers can request to subscribe to read your posts.

The launch

into further into Twitter's territory by offering private sub-stacks

considering that Twitter has offered the ability to make your

account private for many years now and also offers Twitter Circle which allows you to

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