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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Meta unveils teleprompter and EMG handwriting features for Meta Ray-Ban Display and expands Pedestrian Navigation for the glasses to four new US cities — Ray-Ban Display users will soon be able to reply to texts with hand gestures. … The new EMG handwriting feature … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Meta says it is pausing the release of its Ray-Ban Display glasses to the UK, France, Italy, and Canada due to “unprecedented demand and limited inventory” — The reason is ‘unprecedented demand and limited inventory,’ the company said. … There's no new date for the expansion that was originally set for early 2026.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta and Garmin demo using the Meta Ray-Ban Display's neural band inside a car to control its infotainment system, as part of Garmin's Unified Cabin concept — The company showed off a concept with Garmin that brings the wrist-based controller inside cars. — Meta has been experimenting with EMG technology for years.
More: CNET, Automotive World, and Garmin International, Inc.
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia rolls out DLSS 4.5 with a second-generation Super Resolution transformer model for RTX GPUs and a 6x Multi Frame Generation mode for its RTX 50 series — All RTX owners will get DLSS 4.5 model and image quality improvements today. … Nvidia is announcing its next major update …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for select Linux distributions and Amazon Fire TV devices, 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 …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Nvidia launches Vera Rubin, saying the platform uses extreme codesign across six chips “to slash training time and inference token costs” compared to Blackwell — The Rubin GPU boasts five times more AI training compute power than Blackwell.
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
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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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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Internal memo: Meta names CJ Mahoney, former Microsoft legal executive and deputy US Trade Representative during Trump's first term, as its chief legal officer — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced that C.J. Mahoney, formerly a senior legal executive at Microsoft … | 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 — Still Zen 5, still Ryzen AI - Gorgon Point is a clock speed bump … AMD's upcoming Ryzen AI 400 series of laptop APUs … | Reuters: |
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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: |
| Zachary Skidmore / DatacenterDynamics: |
Commonwealth Fusion Systems teams up with Nvidia and Siemens to build an AI digital twin of its Sparc fusion reactor, accelerating its push to commercial fusion — Claims will aid in accelerating the path to commercial fusion energy — US fusion firm Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) … | The Information: |
LMArena, which runs leaderboards that rank AI models based on their performance, raised a $150M Series A led by Felicis and UC Investments at a $1.7B valuation — LMArena, a startup that operates a widely cited ranking of AI models based on their performance, has raised $150 million …
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| Madeline Ricchiuto / IGN: |
Intel unveils the Arc B390 integrated GPU, offering improved gaming performance, and says it will power gaming handhelds built by MSI, Acer, Microsoft, and more — Look out, AMD — Last year, Intel had the best iGPU on the market. This year, it's broken that record by over 70% with Panther Lake and it's a huge win for handhelds.
More: PCWorld, PC Guide, Silicon UK, and VideoCardz.com
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Forums: r/intel, r/Handhelds, r/SteamDeck, and r/hardware
| Michael Justin Allen Sexton / PCMag: |
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| Corey Quinn / The Register: |
AWS implemented a 15% price hike for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML on January 3; Amazon says it “reflects the supply/demand patterns we expect this quarter” — An anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter — I've been tracking AWS for a long time, with a specific emphasis on pricing.
More: DatacenterDynamics, Amazon Web Services, ITPro, and Network World
| Dan Rys / Billboard: |
UMG announces a partnership with Nvidia “to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation, and engagement”, centered on Nvidia's Music Flamingo model — The collaboration will allow fans and artists to go in-depth on the music they love and create an artist incubator to explore AI in human creation.
More: Mercury News, Variety, Nairametrics, Pitchfork, Music Week, Universal Music Group, and Music Business Worldwide. Forums: r/SunoAI
| Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: |
Chinese robot vacuum maker Roborock unveils the Saros Rover, a concept robot vacuum with two wheel-legs to let it climb steps, as robotics dominates CES — Roborock, a Chinese robotic vacuum cleaner brand, unveiled a concept device with two legs that can climb stairs in people's homes …
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| Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: |
Razer plans to invest $600M in AI over “the next couple of years”, as the gaming peripherals maker unveils new AI products like headphones with built-in cameras — The company's new AI offerings span hardware and software, and are aimed at a mix of consumers and coders.
More: Gizmodo, The Verge, CNET, Business Insider, XDA Developers, T3, Windows Central, The Verge, The Verge, Engadget, GameSpot, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, Financial Post, and PC Gamer
X: @razer, @tenstorrent, @razer, and @razer. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com. Threads: @chriswelch. Forums: Slashdot
| Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
Marvell says it will acquire networking equipment provider XConn Technologies in a deal worth about $540M; the deal is expected to close in early 2026 — Marvell Technology said on Tuesday it will buy networking equipment provider XConn Technologies in a deal worth about $540 million …
More: DatacenterDynamics, Forbes Middle East, Benzinga, and Barron's Online
| 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 — AI might replace all of the jobs; that's only a problem if you think that humans will care, but if they care, they will create new jobs.| 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.
More: Forbes, Digit, and Korea Joongang Daily
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| Hyonhee Shin / Bloomberg: |
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