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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Katie Collins / CNET:
Qualcomm unveils the Dragonwing IQ10 Series, a full-stack robotics architecture integrating hardware, software, and AI for industrial and consumer humanoids
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.
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 …
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.”
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.
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 …
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
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.
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.
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.
The Information:
Sources: Nvidia has struggled to monetize its Omniverse software and the company shuttered its Omniverse Cloud service in August 2025 due to a 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 …
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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Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Gene Shalit, a longtime film critic for NBC's Today who was with the show from 1970 until his retirement in 2010, dies at 100

Marah Eakin / Current:
Fred Rogers Productions launches a Mister Rogers' Neighborhood YouTube channel, curating content based on monthly themes and focusing on reach over monetization

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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”
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

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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
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”
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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