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1. Twitter pays out $5M to top creators to better compete with Threads
2. Court rules that Ripple's sale of cryptos via exchanges were not securities
3. FTC's attempts to block Microsoft-Activision fail; UK likely to approve deal
4. FTC Chair Khan grilled by House, as Twitter requests settlement termination
5. FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control pill, 63 years after launch
6. Stability AI launches Stable Doodle, sketch-to-image tool

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1. Twitter pays out $5M to top creators to better compete with Threads

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Twitter pays out $5M to top creators to better compete with Threads

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1. Twitter pays out $5M to top creators to better compete with Threads

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Twitter pays out $5M to top creators to better compete with Threads

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Apple’s iPhone Duo debuts as its first foldable, with 7.6” inner display, A20 Pro chip

OpenAI says internal model solved Navier-Stokes problem amid data-use concerns

Anthropic said to walk away from ~$6B Decart acquisition after due diligence

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra launches as its latest frontier model, touted as ushering in “AGI era”