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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.
Lauren Goode / Wired:
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips are in “full production”; Nvidia says Rubin can train some LLMs using 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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
Nvidia brings its G-Sync Pulsar tech to four monitors, which reduces motion blur by using a “rolling scan” scheme that briefly pulses the monitors' backlight
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 …
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:
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
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
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) …
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.
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
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 …
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.
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 …
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

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