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January 6, 2026, 9:40 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 …
Reuters:
AMD says the Instinct MI500 AI chips are coming in 2027, with up to 1,000x the AI performance of the MI300X, and unveils the MI440X for enterprise deployments  —  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 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 …
Allison Smith / Modern Retail:
Brands complain Amazon's “Buy for Me” AI-powered shopping tool features their products on Amazon without permission and shows descriptions with errors  —  Angie Chua has avoided selling on Amazon since she founded her Palm Springs, California-based stationery brand Bobo Design Studio in 2016.
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 …
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Google will now publish new source code to the Android Open Source Project twice per year, down from releasing source code for every quarterly Android release  —  Google has announced that it will publish Android source code to AOSP in Q2 and Q4 of each year.  —  •
Evan Halper / Washington Post:
How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like water, electricity, and noise  —  As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide.
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Lenovo introduces Qira, a system-level, cross-device AI assistant for both its computers and Motorola smartphones, arriving later this quarter  —  Qira will arrive later this quarter.  —  If the world didn't already have one too many digital assistants, Lenovo is adding another one to the pile.
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 …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta names C.J. 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 and deputy U.S. Trade …
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.
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.
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  —  Four new monitors promise “effective motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor.”
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
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
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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Reshmi Basu / Bloomberg:
QVC Group, owner of TV shopping channels QVC and HSN, files for bankruptcy as part of a plan to cut more than $5B in debt; shares closed down 69% on Thursday

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Notus will rename itself The Star and relaunch in early June as it adds local news and sports coverage; source: Robert Allbritton will add ~$30M to its funding

Ryan Glasspiegel / Front Office Sports:
Sources: the NFL and YouTube are in advanced talks for a five-game package; deal price and duration were not immediately known

More News

Corey Quinn / The Register:
Amazon raised AWS' EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML prices by ~15% on January 3, saying the adjustment “reflects the supply/demand patterns we expect this quarter”
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
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

Earlier Picks

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:
American Airlines partners with AT&T to add free, high-speed satellite-based Wi-Fi across its entire fleet, with a target spring 2026 completion date
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