Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer
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TL;DRIranian strikes destroyed Amazon data centers, causing permanent customer data loss.
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TL;DROpenAI released Astra for Law, a GPT-6 tool for legal research and writing.

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