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Top stories today:
1. Threads, Meta’s Twitter, gets 10M downloads on its first day
2. OpenAI announces Superalignment, focused on saving humanity from AI
3. U.S. VC funding is -13% QoQ and -48% YoY, to $39.8B in Q2
4. Tesla, Chinese automakers sign pledge to avoid “abnormal pricing”
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