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Since 2024, HiAnime.to has been a primary destination for millions of anime viewers. Today, this reign appears to come to an end as a message shown across its official domain names says that it's "time to say goodbye". However, not everyone is convinced that this is indeed a final farewell.

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Milan prosecutors are pushing for a trial against Amazon's European arm and four executives. This follows allegations of tax evasion amounting to 1.2 billion euros. Amazon had previously settled a tax dispute with Italy for 527 million euros. Prosecutors are proceeding with the criminal case despite the settlement. The investigation focuses on VAT evasion by non-EU sellers using Amazon's platform.

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What exactly is AMI building? The short answer is world models, a category of AI system that LeCun has been arguing for, and working on, for years. The longer answer requires understanding why he thinks the industry has taken a wrong turn.

Large language models learn by predicting which word comes next in a sequence. They have been trained on vast quantities of human-generated text, and the results have been remarkable, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have demonstrated an ability to generate fluent, plausible language across an enormous range of subjects. But LeCun has spent years arguing, loudly and repeatedly, that this approach has fundamental limits.

His alternative is JEPA: the Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture, a framework he first proposed in 2022. Rather than predicting the future state of the world in pixel-perfect or word-by-word detail, the approach that makes generative AI both powerful and prone to hallucination, JEPA learns abstract representations of how the world works, ignoring unpredictable surface detail. The idea is to build systems that understand physical reality the way humans and animals do: not through language, but through embodied experience."

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The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rocket parts from orbit within 25 years of launch.

Police body camera and weapons juggernaut Axon is reporting blockbuster earnings amid the Trump administration’s explosive spending on immigration policing. The company is resisting efforts to make it disclose its political spending strategy.

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According to tipster Ice Universe, Samsung has disabled Odin, a proprietary firmware flashing tool typically used to install stock firmware, install custom ROMs, and restore devices. It also appears that Samsung has removed “Download Mode,” which acts as a gateway for Odin. This change appears to have been made in the latest One UI 8.5 firmware and currently affects the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and recently launched Galaxy S26 series.