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Amazon Taps Anthropic's Claude AI to Revitalize Alexa: Report

Amazon will use Anthropic's Claude AI to help power the next generation of Alexa—internally dubbed "Remarkable Alexa or Projet Banyan"—according to information shared with Reuters by sources familiar with the matter. The revelation comes after Amazon's proprietary large language model reportedly fell short of expectations, with prototype versions of the new Alexa struggling to process queries efficiently. Reuters reports that during internal testing, the in-house AI-powered Alexa exhibited delay...

Can TON Even Handle the 'Hamster Kombat' Telegram Game Airdrop?

Telegram tap-to-earn game players got exciting news this week, as the developers of viral crypto game Hamster Kombat announced that the HMSTR token launch is now set for September 26 on The Open Network (TON), following a delay from the original target of July. But that announcement was couched by plenty of less appealing news around the network. Last weekend, Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France, prompting a price plunge for TON plus uncertainty around the Telegram-lin...