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On Monday, Instagram announced it’s testing a feed that only shows posts from verified accounts. This new way for “businesses and creators to get discovered” is part of a broader push across the social media industry, where the apps are rolling out the blue-checked carpet to encourage people to pay for a boost in the…

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FILE - Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor in New York City, on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. Treasury yields surged in September and sapped the energy from a strong stock market as investors came to terms with the likelihood that interest rates will remain high well into 2024. The yield on the 10-year Treasury jumped to the highest level in nearly two decades. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)
10-year Treasury yields topped 5% for the first time in 16 years Monday – and that's sparked panic on Wall Street.
  • A deepening crash in the bond market has sparked panic on Wall Street in recent weeks.
  • Treasury prices have plummeted, sending benchmark 10-year yields above 5% for the first time in 16 years.
  • Here's what the market meltdown means for stocks, the economy, and

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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Federal court, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in New York.
  • Sam Bankman-Fried will take the stand in his criminal trial, his lawyer said.
  • The FTX cofounder is facing seven charges of fraud and a potentially hefty prison sentence.
  • Experts say his testimony could be a wild card.

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A few of the biggest companies pushing AI, including the legacy Silicon Valley giants Google and Microsoft alongside new blood OpenAI and Anthropic, are coming together to push their own industry body as the main bastion of AI safety. These multi-billion dollar companies’ first boon to the fledgling AI forum is a new…

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Alexa won’t work with IFTTT anymore soon. | Image: Wes Davis / The Verge

The team behind IFTTT (short for “if this, then that”) wrote in a blog post that Amazon is cutting the service off from Alexa beginning October 31st. Once the integration is severed, users won’t be able to ask Alexa to trigger IFTTT applets. Certain automations will stick around in the IFTTT app, but