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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms cut one major poop gag (but kept the rest)

Ira Parker, co-creator and showrunner of The Game of Thrones spin-off, explains why the series' poop jokes are important — and the one that wasn't.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B+ in 2025 (Sarah Friar/OpenAI)

Sarah Friar / OpenAI:
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B+ in 2025  —  We launched ChatGPT as a research preview to understand what would happen if we put frontier intelligence directly in people's hands.

What is the Blackfyre Rebellion and why is it important to A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?

The Game of Thrones prequel is set in the aftermath of a bloody civil war. Here's a detailed history of the Blackfyre Rebellion.

Game of Thrones interactive map of Westeros, Essos, and more

See key locations from Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and House of the Dragon in our GoT interactive map.

Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a "Claude bender" (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)

Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal:
Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a “Claude bender”  —  Developers and hobbyists are comparing the viral moment for Anthropic's Claude Code to the launch of generative AI