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January 5, 2026, 4:25 PM

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Katie Teague / Engadget:

A live blog of Nvidia's keynote with CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2026, where the company is showcasing AI, robotics, simulation, gaming, and more — NVIDIA is showcasing robotics, simulation, gaming and more at CES 2026. — Last year during CES 2025, NVIDIA spent most of the time during …

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Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:

Samsung co-CEO TM Roh says the company has rolled out Gemini AI features to ~400M mobile devices so far and aims to hit 800M in 2026; Samsung's stock jumps 5%+ — Samsung Electronics plans to double this year the number of its mobile devices with “Galaxy AI” features largely powered by Google's Gemini …

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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 …

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:

Samsung adds AI features to its Family Hub refrigerators, such as Bixby voice control to open and close the door and Gemini-powered AI Vision to track inventory

More: T3, Android Headlines, SamMobile, and KnowTechie

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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:

Qualcomm unveils the Dragonwing IQ10 Series, a full-stack robotics architecture integrating hardware, software, and AI for industrial and consumer humanoids

More: Benzinga, Automate, The Indian Express, RoboticsTomorrow.com, Android Headlines, eeNews Europe, Gadgets 360, GamesBeat, Telecompaper, and The Verge. X: @danielnewmanuv

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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The Information:

Sources: Nvidia has struggled to monetize its Omniverse software and the company shuttered the Omniverse Cloud service in August 2025 due to lack of demand — In the past two years, Nvidia's business of selling chips for AI has rocketed into the stratosphere, lifting the company's revenue …

Megan Morrone / Axios:

OpenAI says that 40M+ Americans use ChatGPT daily for health info, per an analysis of anonymized interactions and a survey, seeing it as a health care “ally” — More than 40 million Americans turn to ChatGPT daily for health information, according to a report OpenAI has shared exclusively with Axios

More: The Register, ZDNET, Gizmodo, Blockchain.News, The Decoder, Becker's Hospital Review, and KnowTechie

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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.

More: The Verge, XDA Developers, PCMag, TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget, Dexerto, Phandroid, T3, Mashable, and 9to5Toys. LinkedIn: Christopher Baird

Dave Sebastian / Bloomberg:

Sources: Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax plans to price its Hong Kong IPO at ~$21, the top of its range, and stop taking orders a day earlier than expected — MiniMax plans to price its Hong Kong initial public offering at the top of the marketed range, people familiar with the matter said …

More: South China Morning Post, Reuters, Tech in Asia, Proactive, eeNews Europe, and DealStreetAsia

New York Times:

A Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180K+ CT scans to help doctors detect ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its November 2024 rollout — A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine's tough problems.

More: Wall Street Journal, Becker's Hospital Review, The Decoder, and The Ankler

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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.

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Bloomberg:

How Paramount's David Ellison deployed financial backing and political lobbying, including his well-connected chief legal adviser, to beat Netflix and win WBD

CNN:

CNN employees and viewers have serious concerns about whether Ellison will uphold CNN's editorial independence amid severe political pressure

Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:

Memo: another CBS News producer leaves, after 46 years, and says, “We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum”

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Allison Johnson / The Verge:

TCL unveils the €339 70 Pro phone, with a 6.9" NXTPaper 4.0 display and a paper-like textured finish, and the $549 Note A1 NXTPaper, an 11.5" Remarkable rival

More: CNET, 9to5Google, and ZDNET

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:

Lyte, founded by ex-Apple Face ID engineers, emerges from stealth and raised ~$107M to develop tech to help robots see better and move more safely in the world

More: MacDailyNews

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:

African fintech Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open banking startup Mono, sources say in an all-stock deal valued at $25M to $40M; Mono raised ~$17.5M since 2020

More: TechCabal, Techpoint Africa, This Week in Fintech, Condia, PaymentsJournal, Pulse 2.0, UrbanGeekz, FinTech Global, Flutterwave, Nairametrics, Gulf Business, AfroTech, WeeTracker, and The Paypers

Debby Wu / Bloomberg:

Sources: Alibaba's Amap will soon launch an AI tool that lets restaurants render 3D images by uploading videos or photos, in an effort to compete with Meituan

More: Benzinga

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters:

Taiwanese prosecutors file additional indictments against Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit and three other defendants over the alleged theft of TSMC's trade secrets

More: DigiTimes, Taipei Times, and Tech in Asia

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:

CES 2026: self-driving truck company Kodiak partners with Bosch to develop a hardware and software system to turn standard semi-trucks into autonomous vehicles

More: Reuters, Implicator.ai, Pulse 2.0, and Yahoo Finance

Reuters:

Foxconn reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$82.7B, vs. ~$77B est., and record December revenue, up 32% YoY to ~$27.5B, driven by AI, cloud, and networking demand

More: The Economic Times, CNBC, Capacity, Taipei Times, Forbes Middle East, Blockonomi, Capital Brief, Sharecast, and MacDailyNews

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Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:

Chinese automotive chipmaker Black Sesame says its Huashan A2000 passed the US Commerce and Defense Departments' “relevant reviews”, enabling a global rollout

More: Tech in Asia and DigiTimes

Wall Street Journal:

A profile of Max Tegmark, the physicist pushing to halt AGI development, who was subpoenaed by OpenAI over the Future of Life Institute's past ties to Elon Musk

Satya Nadella / sn scratchpad:

Satya Nadella says the tech industry needs to move past “slop vs sophistication” arguments and view AI “as a scaffolding for human potential vs a substitute”

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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot

Yimou Lee / Reuters:

Taiwan says that China's cyberattacks on its hospitals, banks, energy, and other key infrastructure rose 6% in 2025 to an average of 2.63M attacks per day

More: CSO, Taipei Times, Tech in Asia, Capacity, and Focus Taiwan

Forums: r/China and r/taiwan

Dylan Butts / CNBC:

SpaceX says it is offering free Starlink broadband internet service in Venezuela to new and existing customers through a roaming plan through February 3, 2026

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Stephen Foley / Financial Times:

PwC US Senior Partner Paul Griggs says PwC decided to “lean in” to crypto work after years of taking a more cautious stance, following Trump's crypto embrace

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Dominic Preston / The Verge:

Plaud debuts the $179 Plaud NotePin S AI recorder, similar to the $159 NotePin but with a button, alongside a new desktop app for recording online meeting audio

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