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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 …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
A look at Nvidia's Level 2 driving system, set to roll out to more carmakers in 2026, after a ~40-minute drive around San Francisco in a Mercedes-Benz CLA sedan  —  It's a beautiful, cloudless day in San Francisco, and I'm sitting in the passenger seat of a Mercedes-Benz CLA sedan.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia unveils DLSS 4.5 with a new 6x Multi Frame Generation for the RTX 50 series, and a second-generation Super Resolution transformer model for all RTX GPUs  —  All RTX owners will get DLSS 4.5 model and image quality improvements today. … Nvidia is announcing its next major update …
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.
Lauren Goode / Wired:
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips are in “full production”; Nvidia says Rubin can train some LLMs with roughly one-fourth the chips Blackwell needs  —  The chip giant says Vera Rubin will sharply cut the cost of training and running AI models, strengthening the appeal of its integrated computing platform.
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.
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 …
Reuters:
AMD teases its next-generation CDNA 6-based MI500 AI chips built on a 2nm node, claiming 1,000x performance gains over predecessors, launching in 2027  —  Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) CEO Lisa Su showed off a number of the company's AI chips on Monday at the CES trade show in Las Vegas …
Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware:
AMD unveils Ryzen AI 400 Series chips for AI PCs, with up to 12 Zen 5 CPU cores and 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, built with TSMC's N4X node, available in Q1 2026
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
AMD unveils the 12-core Ryzen AI Max+ 392, and the 8-core AI Max+ 388 processors, both with 40 graphics compute units and offering 60 TFLOPS of GPU performance
Michael Justin Allen Sexton / PCMag:
Intel details its 2nm 18A-process Panther Lake chips, showing major performance gains; Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3-based laptops will debut on January 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.”
Niki Tonsky / tonsky.me:
Apple's macOS Tahoe adds icons to every menu item, resulting in menus that are hard to use and go against the long-standing Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines  —  accompanied by explanation:  —  Fast forward to 2025.  Apple releases macOS Tahoe.  Main attraction?
Rich Woods / XDA Developers:
Dell revives the XPS brand with new XPS 14 and 16 laptops, offering new designs, Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips, and tandem OLED screens, but no dedicated GPUs  —  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.
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 …
Cameron Faulkner / The Verge:
Xreal partners with Asus to unveil ROG Xreal R1 gaming glasses with 1080p micro-OLED displays and a 240Hz refresh rate, launching in H1 2026  —  Doubling the standard refresh rate won't come cheap, and we don't know yet how much Xreal is going to charge. … Xreal is having a big CES.
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.
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.
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Even if AI could take over every job, humans will invent new work for themselves, because we value human effort and connection, not just output  —  Pity the paradox of the content producer in the age of AI.  On one hand, AI is one of the greatest gifts ever in terms of topics to cover.
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 …
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

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