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Valve unveils the Steam Frame, a VR headset that can stream games from a PC or run Windows and Android games locally, expected to launch in 2026 for under $999 — Valve is about to launch a new virtual reality headset, and with it, a comprehensive new approach to what a VR device should be.
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Valve's Steam Frame features a replaceable battery strap, dual 2160×2160 LCD panels, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, 16GB of RAM, a microSD slot, and weighs 440g — Valve just officially announced Steam Frame, a “streaming-first” standalone VR headset launching in “early 2026”.
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Valve's Steam Frame hands-on: the back-mounted battery and 185g visor make it very comfortable and game streaming is stable, but the display has poor contrast — UploadVR's Ian Hamilton and David Heaney went hands-on with Steam Frame at Valve HQ. — If you missed it, Valve … | Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Valve unveils a new Steam Machine, a cube-shaped gaming PC with SteamOS, a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 CPU and AMD RDNA 3 GPU, and 16GB of RAM, expected in early 2026 — Valve is promising 4K gaming at 60 FPS with FSR — Valve rattled the gaming industry in 2022 with the launch of the Steam Deck …
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Satya Nadella says Microsoft has access to “all” of OpenAI's custom AI chip work and plans to use it to help develop its own in-house chip — Microsoft Corp. plans to use access to OpenAI's development of custom AI semiconductors to help its own chip effort.
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| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft unveils an AI “super factory”, a new class of hubs built for AI training, in Atlanta as part of its Fairwater network of data centers — Tech giant is building out huge data centers among most advanced in the world as it rushes to meet demand for AI computing power
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.1 Instant, which is “warmer” and “more conversational”, and GPT-5.1 Thinking, “easier to understand and faster”, starting with paid users — We're upgrading GPT‑5 while making it easier to customize ChatGPT.
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Google says it will allow “experienced users” to install Android apps from unverified developers, following backlash against new sideloading restrictions — Google will allow ‘experienced users’ to install Android apps made by unverified developers. — • — TL;DR
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches Digital ID in Apple Wallet, letting iPhone and Apple Watch owners in the US carry a copy of their passport, which can be used at TSA checkpoints — iPhone and Apple Watch owners in the United States will now be able to carry a copy of their U.S. passport on their device …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
OpenAI asks a US federal judge to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20M anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in the NYT's copyright suit, citing privacy — OpenAI asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT chat logs amid …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google launches Cameyo by Google, after acquiring the software virtualization company in June 2024, to help organizations run legacy Windows apps on ChromeOS — Cameyo by Google makes it easier to run Windows-based apps on Chromebooks. … After acquiring software virtualization company Cameyo last year …
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| Zoe Thomas / Bloomberg: |
Waymo becomes the first robotaxi provider to offer driverless rides on freeways, available 24/7 in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles for users who opt in — Waymo will become the first robotaxi provider in the US to offer driverless rides on highways, a milestone that positions …
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| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
FanDuel and CME Group plan to launch FanDuel Predicts, a prediction market app, in December, bypassing restrictions in US states where gambling is illegal — Partnership with CME Group will allow betting group to offer contracts structured as peer-to-peer trades| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
An Apple-funded study on the EU DMA: developers didn't pass on App Store fee savings to EU users, keeping prices the same or increasing them on 91% of products — A study backed by Apple claims to show that the Digital Markets Act is not lowering prices for App Store users, even when the company is forced to lower its fees.
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
A Dubai court orders a worldwide freeze on $456M in reserves linked to Justin Sun's bailout of Techteryx's TrueUSD, saying there's evidence of a breach of trust — Dubai's Digital Economy Court said there was compelling evidence of a breach of trust and ordered a worldwide freeze to protect the assets.| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Anthropic plans to spend $50B on a US AI infrastructure buildout, starting with Texas and New York data centers in partnership with Fluidstack, opening in 2026 — Anthropic announced plans Wednesday to spend $50 billion on U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout, starting with custom data centers in Texas and New York.
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| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
Baidu unveils two AI chips: the M100 for efficient MoE inference, launching in 2026, and the M300 for training super-large multimodal models, coming in 2027 — The M100 and M300 provide ‘powerful, low-cost and controllable AI computing power’ to support the nation's self-reliance push, the firm says| Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post: |
US Attorney Jeanine Pirro launches a federal investigative task force to crack down on overseas crime organizations behind crypto scams targeting Americans — U.S. victims were defrauded of $9.3 billion in cryptocurrency scams last year, many of them operated by crime networks in Southeast Asia, officials said.
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| Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0: |
Attentive.ai, maker of Beam AI for automating preconstruction workflows using AI, raised $30.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing total raised to $48M — Attentive.ai, the San Francisco-based company behind Beam AI, has raised $30.5 million in Series B funding to expand …
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| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
Visa announces a pilot allowing businesses to send stablecoins payouts directly to users' or workers' crypto wallets — Visa Inc. is testing the ability for businesses to send stablecoins directly to consumers' cryptocurrency wallets for global payouts, targeting growing demand …
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| Denitsa Tsekova / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, first with select users, and says the exchange is fully functional with some users betting on real contracts — Polymarket has begun live testing its US exchange by quietly opening up to some users and matching trades ahead of its planned relaunch in the American betting market.
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| Fernando Silva / 9to5Mac: |
Even Realities' G2 glasses hands-on: lighter than the G1, subtle notifications on the lens that cross the eye line, and a “passive wearable” akin to Apple Watch — During the chaos of CES 2025, I came across one product that gave me the “I need to have that” feeling.
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| Steve Crowe / The Robot Report: |
Foxglove, which is building a data and observability platform for robotics companies, raised a $40M Series B led by Bessemer, bringing its total funding to $58M — Foxglove, a San Francisco-based startup building a data and observability platform for robotics companies, today said it has raised $40 million in Series B funding.
More: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire, and The Information
| Sara Merken / Reuters: |
GC AI, which provides in-house corporate legal teams with AI tools for common tasks, raised a $60M Series B led by Scale and Northzone at a $555M valuation — Investors in recent weeks have injected more than $750 million in new cash into startups that make artificial intelligence products for lawyers …
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| Oliver Whang / New York Times: |
A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces — Owen Collumb was paralyzed in 1993, when he was 21 years old. A tire on his motorbike blew out and he fell into a ravine, breaking a single bone in his spine.
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Alibaba is renaming its AI app Tongyi to “Qwen”, aiming to make it more like ChatGPT, and adding agentic-AI shopping features for platforms like Taobao — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is preparing an overhaul of its main mobile AI app in coming months to help … Sponsor Posts
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