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January 6, 2026, 10:20 AM

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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 …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia rolls out DLSS 4.5 with 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.
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 announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for select Linux distributions and Amazon Fire TV sticks, available in early 2026  —  Nvidia is also adding joystick and yoke flight control support to GeForce Now. … Nvidia's RTX 5080 rollout for its GeForce …
Lauren Goode / Wired:
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 …
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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 …
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:
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?
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.”
Madeline Ricchiuto / IGN:
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.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
HP unveils the Eliteboard G1a, a compact desktop PC in the form of a keyboard, powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series chip, set for March launch; pricing is TBC  —  The HP Eliteboard G1a packs an AMD chip into a keyboard with either an attached or detachable USB-C cable.

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