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Top 4 stories today: 🌎 1. Worldcoin, Sam Altman's cryptocurrency, launches ❌ 2. Twitter rebrands to X, to introduce personal finance features ❤️‍🩹 3. Longevity VC increases 23% to $282M in Q2; much below Q1 2022's $4.5B 👧 4. Barbenheimer brings in $235.5 in first weekend

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Top 3 stories to start your day: 🧠 1. Llama 2 released by Meta: available for commercial use, similar to GPT-3.5 💻 2. Microsoft 365 Copilot to cost $30/user/month, stock +4% 📈 3. Bullishness among individual investors reaches November 21 high

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Top 7 stories to start your day: 1. Threads reaches 100M users in 5 days, a record 2. New class actions filed against OpenAI, Meta 3. U.S. suggests it wants to deescalate trade war with China 4. CPI is expected to drop and core CPI to remain high (Wed)

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Most important points from the FOMC minutes, suggesting markets are wrong on pricing in cuts. *FED MINUTES SHOW OFFICIALS SPLIT ON SUPPORT FOR MORE HIKES *FED OFFICIALS STRESS DATA-DEPENDENT APPROACH, CUTS UNLIKELY *FED: OFFICIALS SAW TIMELY DEBT LIMIT INCREASE AS ESSENTIAL

Fresh news from Yellen: YELLEN REITERATES TREASURY MAY RUN OUT OF CASH SOON AS JUNE 1 YELLEN: TREASURY AND BIDEN WILL FACE TOUGH CHOICES IF CONGRESS DOESN'T ACT TO RAISE DEBT CEILING YELLEN: THERE WILL BE SOME OBLIGATIONS WE WILL BE UNABLE TO PAY

BREAKING: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will announce his 2024 presidential campaign in a Twitter Spaces livestream with Elon Musk on Wednesday evening, according to people familiar with his plans: Bloomberg. Thoughts?

*MCCARTHY SAYS REPUBLICANS WILL RESUME DEBT NEGOTIATIONS TONIGHT *MCCARTHY: 14TH AMENDMENT WOULDN'T SOLVE ANY PROBLEMS *MCCARTHY VOWS TO BLOCK BIDEN PUSH TO INCREASE SPENDING Was the GOP bluffing when it withdrew from negotiations this afternoon?

Claude is 2.5x faster than ChatGPT, according to a recent study. More specifically, Anthropic's claude-instant model, of similar quality as GPT-3.5-turbo, can output 47 tokens per second, vs. 19 for GPT-3.5-turbo.

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BREAKING: The U.S. and allies will supply F-16s to Ukraine. Slowly but surely, Western military support for Ukraine increases, as the war goes on. The best-case scenario is Ukraine has some advances and achieves a peace deal by the end of the year.

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