Amazon blames piracy apps with malware for killing new Fire Stick sideloading
New Fire Stick OS helps Amazon block third-party homepage launchers, ad blockers.
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How Big Is the AI Economy?
AI is now running at a $175 billion annualized revenue rate, with token demand, compute, and power growth reshaping the economy around it. NLW breaks down new research from Exponential View on why the AI boom may be more revenue-validated than the bubble discourse suggests. In the headlines: Fable relaunch rumors, agent regulation, California’s Claude deal, Amazon-Anthropic pricing, Meta’s distillation worries, GPU price hikes, and “Ramageddon.”Brought to you by:KPMG – Research from KPMG and the
NASA may send a backup, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon
"That would be an awesome capability."
Google kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and more
Tenor still connects to Google apps, but other platforms must look elsewhere for GIFs.
Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM
With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall
Apple takes Epic fight over app store fees to the Supreme Court
Supreme Court will weigh if Apple contempt finding in Epic case is “erroneous.”
Changing AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show
SEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings
New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea
Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.
Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools
29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are
Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet
They may not look as good, but Nano Banana 2 Lite images only take a few seconds to create.
RFK Jr. stacks FDA panel with peptide peddlers as FDA scientists oppose access
Peptide drugs are popular, but FDA scientists warn they're untested, may be harmful.
Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors
A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.