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  • Amazon Alexa event live blog: all the news from the keynote
  • Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
  • An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational "LLM Siri" won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027
  • Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products
  • 'I want him to be prepared': why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI
  • Skype is shutting down after two decades
  • Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
  • House Democrats take aim at $TRUMP crypto meme coin
  • Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking
  • Apple to build iCloud backdoor
  • Biden Justice Department downplayed U.K. demand for Apple 'back door'
  • "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cybercommand to "stand down" on Russia
  • Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram With Violent Content
  • YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content
  • 'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash
  • Netflix is building an anti-Disneyland
  • An small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station
  • All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation

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