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January 7, 2025, 8:55 AM
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Bruna Horvath / NBC News:
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …
Fox News:
Meta's Joel Kaplan says the Trump administration is “a huge supporter of free expression”, which “gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on”  —  FIRST ON FOX: Meta is ending its fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on speech to …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Meta will lift restrictions on “topics that are part of mainstream discourse”, like immigration and gender, and focus on “illegal and high-severity violations”
More: CNBC and Associated Press
Bluesky: @justnews4you and @kint
Threads: @zuck and @zuck
X: @thetranscript_ and @esaagar
New York Times:
Meta will move trust and safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas, to remove concerns “that biased employees are overly censoring content”
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia unveils RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090 and a $999 RTX 5080 coming on January 30 and a $749 RTX 5070 Ti and a $549 RTX 5070 in February  —  Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today.  After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs …
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Nvidia says the RTX 5090 has 92B transistors, 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM, 4,000 AI TOPS, and DLSS 4, which can use AI to generate up to three frames per rendered frame  —  As anticipated, Nvidia Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Nvidia unveils Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” with a new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip and says it can run models up to 200B parameters in size
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Jensen Huang predicts robotics could become “the largest technology industry the world has ever seen”; Nvidia: the humanoids market will reach $38B in 20 years  —  Jensen Huang unveils AI models for humanoids and self-driving car partnership with Toyota at CES keynote
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia debuts the Llama Nemotron and Cosmos Nemotron family of models to advance agentic AI, in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes, on Nvidia's site and Hugging Face  —  Nvidia announced Nemotron Model Families to advance agentic AI as part of its bevy of AI announcements at CES 2025 today.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Nvidia updates its Autonomous Game Characters, says the NPCs can “perceive, plan, and act like human players” in games like PUBG, with “small language models”
BBC:
After complaints from the BBC, Apple plans an Apple Intelligence update “in the coming weeks” that “will further clarify” when it is summarizing notifications  —  Apple is facing a fresh call to withdraw its controversial artificial intelligence (AI) …
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
Dell rebrands its PCs as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each with Base, Plus, and Premium tiers, killing names like XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, and Precision  —  The PC manufacturer's new laptops, desktops, and monitors will have a simplified naming scheme with labels like ‘Pro’ and ‘Max.’
Michael Flaherty / Axios:
Getty Images Holdings and Shutterstock agree to merge in a deal that creates a $3.7B company; Getty CEO Craig Peters will remain CEO of the combined business  —  - Shutterstock shareholders get one of the following: $28.84 per share in cash ($1.03 billion based on Shutterstock's outstanding shares) …
Darragh Murphy / Tom's Guide:
HDMI Forum unveils the HDMI 2.2 spec, with better audio and video sync and 96Gbps bandwidth for resolutions up to 12K at 120Hz, and the required “Ultra96” cable  —  Plus a sneak peek at the new Ultra96 HDMI Cable  —  When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
AMD unveils Ryzen AI Max+ laptop chips with an integrated memory architecture, up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, and claims 84% faster rendering than the M4 Pro MacBook  —  Disruption is a daily thing.  —  AMD announced its ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max series laptop processors here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas …
Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech:
AMD unveils the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, with up to 5.7GHz clock speeds, 144MB of cache, and up to 64% faster performance than the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit

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Rajeev Syal / The Guardian:
A UK jury convicts two Iranians of assisting Iranian intelligence in a plan to “eliminate” journalists at London-based Persian broadcaster Iran International

Bloomberg:
A look at Disney's AI push; sources: it is testing AI-powered suggestions and could add chats with characters on Disney+, and execs saw AI demos at Amazon MGM

Angela Fu / Poynter:
Q&A with fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, on how he wouldn't have done anything differently from his June questioning of CBS leadership, and more

More News

Reuters:
Satya Nadella says Microsoft will invest about $3B to expand its Azure cloud and AI capacity in India and train 10 million people in AI in the country by 2030
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Toyota says its next-gen vehicles will have automated driving powered by Nvidia's Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and safety-focused operating system, DriveOS
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Meta says it's testing an “Imagine Yourself” feature announced in September that automatically generates AI images of a user and puts them into that user's feed
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for 10AM PT on January 22 in San Jose, where Galaxy AI updates, the Galaxy S25 lineup, and more are expected

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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Meta elects new board directors: UFC CEO and outspoken Donald Trump supporter Dana White, former Microsoft executive Charlie Songhurst, and Exor CEO John Elkann
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Similarweb: US DAUs of Bluesky's mobile app grew 12% MoM in December vs. 284% MoM in November; Bluesky now has 26.44M+ total users after passing 20M in November
More: ZDNET and PR Daily
Bluesky: @mcuban, @mcuban, and @mcuban.  Threads: @sarahprz
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Bloomberg:
Tencent's stock drops 5%+ after the US DoD added it to a blacklist of companies with alleged ties to China's military, threatening to escalate US-China tensions
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Google previews Google TV changes coming in 2025, including adding Gemini, more natural voice commands, improved content search, and deeper YouTube integration
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