Top of the Hour — 2:00 PM · Tue Aug 25, 2026
Tuesday, August 25: Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 with a 3× price cut on its fast mode; Amazon completes the Alexa+ rollout to all US Fire TV devices at no cost; the DeepSeek-V5 leak surfaces but remains unconfirmed; Sequoia's AI ROI gap analysis resurfaces as a live pressure point; and the OpenAI IPO S-1 filing is reported as imminent. In this hour: Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 — Fast Mode Gets 3× Cheaper · Amazon Completes Alexa+ Rollout to All US Fire TV Devices — Free, No Prime Required · DeepSeek V5 Leak Surfaces — Trackers Say No Evidence Yet · Sequoia's $2.9T AI Revenue Gap…
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