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| Bruna Horvath / NBC News: |
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning. — Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …
More: CNN, Meta, and Meta
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: the $1,999 RTX 5090, the $999 RTX 5080, the $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and the $549 RTX 5070, available from January — Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today. After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia says the RTX 5090 has 92B transistors, 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM, 4,000 AI TOPS, and support for next-gen DLSS 4, which can now generate multiple frames at once — As anticipated, Nvidia Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia shares Cosmos World Foundation Models, a family of world models that can generate “physics-aware” videos, available from Hugging Face and Nvidia's API — Nvidia is getting into world models — AI models that take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally.
More: Nvidia Newsroom, NVIDIA, The Decoder, Analytics India Magazine, and MarkTechPost
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Jensen Huang predicts robotics could become “the largest technology industry the world has ever seen”; Nvidia: the humanoids market to reach $38B in 20 years — Jensen Huang unveils AI models for humanoids and self-driving car partnership with Toyota at CES keynote| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia announces the Llama Nemotron and Cosmos Nemotron family of AI models to advance agentic AI, available in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes on Hugging Face — Nvidia announced Nemotron Model Families to advance agentic AI as part of its bevy of AI announcements at CES 2025 today.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils Mega, an “Omniverse Blueprint” for developing, testing, and optimizing physical AI and robot fleets at scale in a digital twin before deployment — Nvidia unveils Mega Omniverse blueprint for building industrial robot fleet digital twins, as part of a CES 2025 keynote speech by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
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| BBC: |
After complaints from the BBC, Apple plans an Apple Intelligence update “in the coming weeks” that “will further clarify” when it is summarizing notifications — Apple is facing a fresh call to withdraw its controversial artificial intelligence (AI) …
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Dell rebrands its PCs as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each with Base, Plus, and Premium tiers, killing names like XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, and Precision — The PC manufacturer's new laptops, desktops, and monitors will have a simplified naming scheme with labels like ‘Pro’ and ‘Max.’
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple plans to expand Apple News in more countries and considered building locally focused news coverage in the UK; Apple News has 125M monthly users — Tech group now a force in driving revenues for publishers in US, UK, Canada and Australia — Unlock the Editor's Digest for free
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| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
Chipmaker NXP agrees to buy Austrian automotive software developer TTTech Auto for $625M in cash to build out its products for software-defined vehicle makers — Chipmaker NXP Semiconductors NV agreed to buy Austrian automotive software developer TTTech Auto for $625 million in cash to build …
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| Darragh Murphy / Tom's Guide: |
HDMI Forum unveils the HDMI 2.2 spec, with better audio and video sync and 96Gbps bandwidth for resolutions up to 12K at 120Hz, and the required “Ultra96” cable — Plus a sneak peek at the new Ultra96 HDMI Cable — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
More: HDMI Licensing Administrator …, Ars Technica, and VideoCardz.com
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Forums: r/hardware and r/technology
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta elects new board directors: UFC CEO and outspoken Donald Trump supporter Dana White, former Microsoft executive Charlie Songhurst, and Exor CEO John Elkann — - White has been outspoken ally of US President-elect Trump — Investor Songhurst, Exor CEO Elkann also named as directors
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Meta says it's testing an “Imagine Yourself” feature announced in September that automatically generates AI images of a user and puts them into that user's feed — Meta AI put a Redditor into “an endless maze of mirrors” as part of a new AI feature it is testing.
More: The Indian Express and Android Police
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/ABoringDystopia, and r/technology
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD unveils Ryzen AI Max+ laptop chips with an integrated memory architecture, up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, and claims 84% faster rendering than the M4 Pro MacBook — Disruption is a daily thing. — AMD announced its ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max series laptop processors here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas … | Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: |
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| Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
Fubo is expected to immediately become cash flow positive after its deal with Disney closes in 12 to 18 months; Fubo's stock closed up 253.85% on January 6 — WATCH NOW — Disney will combine its Hulu+ Live TV service with Fubo, merging together two internet TV bundles, the companies announced Monday.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
More: ir.fubo.tv, Silicon Republic, Bloomberg, The Hollywood Reporter, TechCrunch, Fortune, Android Headlines, Reuters, The Desk, The Information, Sports Media Watch, Axios, Deadline, The Streamable, TVNewsCheck, and Cord Cutters News
Bluesky: @willman.online and @philthepill.online
X: @tvgrimreaper, @xpangler, @jbflint, @tvanswerman, @matthewkeyslive, @knox_vol865, @allie_canal, @michellef_davis, @mikestrawmedia, @chrisharihar, @nycmikehenry, @davidclinchnews, @frankthetank111, and @mgsiegler. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
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