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January 6, 2026, 5:45 PM
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xAI:
xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding its $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training  —  xAI is rapidly accelerating its progress in building advanced AI.  —  xAI completed its upsized Series E funding round …
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 …
Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware:
AMD unveils its Ryzen AI 400 Series 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 late 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 up to 1,000x more performance than its Instinct MI300X, coming 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 …
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 …
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
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
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Accenture acquires UK-based AI startup Faculty, which works with the UK government, for an undisclosed sum; Faculty CEO Marc Warner will become Accenture's CTO  —  Accenture Plc agreed to buy Faculty, a British artificial intelligence startup that's worked closely with the government …
Rocket Drew / The Information:
Internal memo: Hark, the new AI lab from Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, backed by $100M of his own capital, has hired 30+ engineers from Apple, Meta, and others  —  Hark, the AI lab that Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock recently founded, has hired over 30 engineers, including Head of Design Abidur Chowdhury …
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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.
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.
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
In the first successful US prosecution of a spyware operator in 10+ years, pcTattletale founder pleads guilty to promoting surveillance apps for unlawful uses  —  The founder of a U.S.-based spyware company, whose surveillance products allowed customers to spy on the phones and computers …
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 …
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.
Dana Wollman / Bloomberg:
Chinese robot vacuum maker Roborock unveils the Saros Rover, a concept robot vacuum cleaner with two wheel-legs for climbing stairs, 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 …
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.
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

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Bloomberg:
How Paramount's David Ellison deployed financial backing and political lobbying, including his well-connected chief legal adviser, to beat Netflix and win WBD

CNN:
CNN employees and viewers have serious concerns about whether Ellison will uphold CNN's editorial independence amid severe political pressure

Henry Dyer / The Guardian:
UK minister Josh Simons resigns over allegations that a think tank he led has probed some journalists and falsely linked them to a “pro-Kremlin” network

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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 AI products like headphones with built-in cameras
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
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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 Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
X faces fresh probes in Europe, India, and Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children; the UK's Ofcom says it has requested info from X
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