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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Nvidia launches the Vera Rubin platform, saying it will offer dramatic reductions in inference and training costs compared to Blackwell, across six new chips — The Rubin GPU boasts five times more AI training compute power than Blackwell. … Nvidia is kicking off 2026 …
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| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Nvidia announces the Alpamayo family of AI models, tools, and datasets for AVs, and details a collaboration with Mercedes-Benz on its first full-stack AV effort — Nvidia outlined its Alpamayo open AI models and datasets to bring reasoning to autonomous vehicles.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
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| Hyonhee Shin / Bloomberg: |
Boston Dynamics unveils a new iteration of its Atlas humanoid robot designed to work in Hyundai's plants starting in 2028, including at a factory in Georgia — Hyundai Motor Co.'s Boston Dynamics unit unveiled the latest iteration of a humanoid robot designed to work in the carmaker's …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Boston Dynamics partners with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics models into Atlas robots, boosting their object-manipulation capabilities and more — Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics are teaming up to integrate Gemini into a humanoid robot called Atlas.
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| Rich Woods / XDA Developers: |
Dell brings back XPS branding with the new XPS 14 and 16 laptops, which address some complaints about the previous XPS design but lack dedicated GPU support — It feels like only a year ago that Dell killed all branding on its laptops, telling journalists we were wrong when we almost universally told them they were crazy.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon unveils a Fire TV UI redesign with rounded corners, 20 app slots, and Alexa+ built in, and launches a $899+ Ember Artline TV series with colorful frames — Amazon is rolling out a Fire TV redesign that puts more focus on the content, while also simplifying the navigation and layout.
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Amazon launches Alexa+ in early access for all users via a new Alexa.com web interface, after launching on Echo, and lets users upload docs, emails, and images — Anyone can sign up and chat with Amazon's new AI assistant in their browser. … Alexa Plus was already popping up online …
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| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon X2 Plus chips for PCs, available in 10-core and 6-core variants, manufactured on TSMC's N3P node using Qualcomm's Oryon architecture — A 10-core replacement and a new 6-core variant, both bringing big single-threaded improvements.
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| Katie Collins / CNET: |
| Michael Justin Allen Sexton / PCMag: |
Intel details its 2nm 18A-process Panther Lake chips, showing major performance gains; laptops with Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 chips will debut on Jan. 27 — Intel's 2-nanometer “18A” chip foundry has fired up at last, churning out the newest Core Ultra Series 3 processors for laptops and mini PCs, also known as “Panther Lake.”
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| Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
A viral Reddit post by a purported developer alleging that a “major food delivery app” exploits drivers appears AI-generated; Uber and DoorDash deny the claims — It might be AI-generated, but food delivery apps do have a track record of exploiting workers.
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Google plans to add Nano Banana and Veo support into Gemini on Google TV, letting users generate AI videos, modify family photos, and more, first on TCL TVs — You'll also be able to ask for custom ‘deep dives’ on subjects, complete with narration and interactive elements.
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| Jeremy White / Wired: |
Lego unveils the Smart Play platform, with a brick powered by a custom chip that connects to compatible minifigures and tags for interactive lights and sounds — The new sensor-packed Smart Play Brick will land this spring as part of a special Star Wars collection.| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Samsung updates its TVs to add new AI features, including a Sound Controller feature that independently adjusts the volume of dialogue, music, or sound effects — Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its 2026 home theater lineup, aiming to cement its position as the leading TV maker amid intensifying competition …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
X faces fresh probes in Europe, India, and Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children; the UK says it has requested related info from X — Elon Musk's X is being investigated by authorities in Europe, India and Malaysia after its Grok chatbot let users create …
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| Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: |
Why Claude Code is much more than a coding agent: it is a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything a user can on a computer, with impressive results — It's a general-purpose AI agent. And it's already a pretty good knowledge worker — Over the holiday break, the news spread like wildfire.
X: @rakyll, @emollick, @levelsio, @karpathy, @simonw, @davidsholz, @sergeykarayev, @inductionheads, @gregisenberg, @dabit3, @minimaxir, @beffjezos, @gregisenberg, @uttam_singhk, @alexfinn, @benjamindekr, @skirano, @danshipper, @apoorva_mehta, @somewheresy, and @rileybrown. Threads: @mitusingh. Forums: Hacker News
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