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• One unlikely winner of last week’s Instagram's Threads release, is a Slack alternative also named… Threads. Established in 2019, the latter Threads saw an influx of more than 880,000 iOS downloads between July 6th and July 12th, moving up to become the 52nd most downloaded app globally, according to Data.ai.

✍️🤖 Stat of the Day: A recent study by two MIT economics graduate students, published in Science, found users of ChatGPT took 40% less time to complete their assignments. And not only were they faster than Ricky Bobby – their quality of work was rated 18% higher as well.

🤯 Did You Know?.... NBC offered James Gandolfini $4 million to play the new boss on The Office after Steve Carell, who played Michael Scott, left the show in its seventh season. HBO, which was filming a new show with Gandolfini at the time, paid the actor $3 million to not take the role.

📖 Worth a Read: Why the Bud Light boycott worked → (New York Magazine)