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Amazon Fire TV adds Alexa+ hub and smarter mobile app

Amazon is turning Fire TV into an AI-powered streaming hub as Alexa+ gains a dedicated interface and revamped mobile app with smarter search and watchlists.

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Epoch AI’s new report says the cost of “artificial thought” is dropping about 47% per quarter, outpacing Moore’s Law and DNA sequencing and reshaping AI’s business model.

Stranger Things’ fifth-season junior novelization will revisit the Netflix finale this October, expanding the story for younger readers with new detail.

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New University of Queensland research exposes how time zones are shaped by politics, not physics, with no global authority policing the world’s clocks, from Australia to China.

Cloudflare is becoming a public certificate authority to ship free hybrid TLS and Merkle Tree Certificates, pushing the web toward quantum-safe encryption.

My Hero Academia’s “final” anime arc might not be the end, as the series locks in a Jump Festa 2027 Super Stage and a huge Ultra Expo send-off in 2027.

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Chainalysis warns blockchain “dead drops” used by Iranian, North Korean and Russian-linked groups are up more than 5x, boosted by open-source AI tools.

Anthropic’s leaked IPO prospectus pairs explosive growth and staggering losses with a stark warning that its own AI models could pose existential risks.