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🐦 1. Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, which gets 30M sign-ups
🧠 2. OpenAI launches GPT-4 (8K) and other APIs to all developers
🚀 3. SpaceX handled 21 flights for outside customers in 1H, 64% market share
🇺🇸 4. U.S. employers are hiring but not making more positions available
🚗 5. Electric vehicles: 557K sold in 1H in the U.S., +50% YoY
☁️ 6. Cloud global revenue was $546B in 2022, +23% YoY

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1. Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, which gets 30M sign-ups in first day

Letter from Alex Spiro, Elon Musk's lawyer, to Meta.

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, which gets 30M sign-ups in first day

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1. Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, which gets 30M sign-ups in first day

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Grok 4.6 debuts as SpaceXAI takes on OpenAI, Anthropic

CoreWeave +18% as Q2 revenue +112% YoY to $2.6B, backlog reaches $104B

GPT-5.6-Cyber debuts for select partners as OpenAI expands Daybreak

Apple said to test China’s CXMT RAM as U.S. rules block technical sharing

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, which gets 30M sign-ups in first day

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1. Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, which gets 30M sign-ups in first day

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Grok 4.6 debuts as SpaceXAI takes on OpenAI, Anthropic

CoreWeave +18% as Q2 revenue +112% YoY to $2.6B, backlog reaches $104B

GPT-5.6-Cyber debuts for select partners as OpenAI expands Daybreak

Apple said to test China’s CXMT RAM as U.S. rules block technical sharing