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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Nvidia launches the Vera Rubin platform, saying it will offer dramatic reductions in inference and training costs compared to Blackwell, across six new chips — The Rubin GPU boasts five times more AI training compute power than Blackwell. … Nvidia is kicking off 2026 …
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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: |
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.
More: NVIDIA, Gizmodo, Electrek, CNBC, Reuters, MotorTrend, SlashGear, InsideEVs, and CNBC Television on YouTube. Forums: r/teslainvestorsclub
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
More: Agence France-Presse, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Reuters, The Economic Times, Implicator.ai, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Business Insider, NVIDIA, Nikkei Asia, CRN, DigiTimes, Bloomberg Law, Engadget, The Register, Yahoo Finance, TechRadar, Constellation Research, ServeTheHome, and Wccftech. Forums: r/nvidia
| 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 — Hyundai Motor Co.'s Boston Dynamics unit unveiled the latest iteration of a humanoid robot designed to work in the carmaker's …
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| 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: Boston Dynamics. X: @zoubinghahrama1, @demishassabis, @parada_car88104, and @thehumanoidhub. LinkedIn: Joshua Berglund
Forums: Hacker News and r/accelerate
| Rich Woods / XDA Developers: |
Dell brings back XPS branding with the new XPS 14 and 16 laptops, which address some complaints about the previous XPS design but lack dedicated GPU support — It feels like only a year ago that Dell killed all branding on its laptops, telling journalists we were wrong when we almost universally told them they were crazy.
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| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon X2 Plus chips for PCs, available in 10-core and 6-core variants, manufactured on TSMC's N3P node using Qualcomm's Oryon architecture — A 10-core replacement and a new 6-core variant, both bringing big single-threaded improvements.
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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 long-standing Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines — accompanied by explanation: — Fast forward to 2025. Apple releases macOS Tahoe. Main attraction?
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon unveils a Fire TV UI redesign with rounded corners, 20 app slots, and Alexa+ built in, and launches a $899+ Ember Artline TV series with colorful frames — Amazon is rolling out a Fire TV redesign that puts more focus on the content, while also simplifying the navigation and layout.
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
| Michael Justin Allen Sexton / PCMag: |
Intel details its 2nm 18A-process Panther Lake chips, showing major performance gains; laptops with Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 chips will debut on Jan. 27 — Intel's 2-nanometer “18A” chip foundry has fired up at last, churning out the newest Core Ultra Series 3 processors for laptops and mini PCs, also known as “Panther Lake.”
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Xreal partners with Asus to unveil ROG Xreal R1 gaming glasses with 1080p micro-OLED displays and a 240Hz refresh rate, launching in H1 2026 — Doubling the standard refresh rate won't come cheap, and we don't know yet how much Xreal is going to charge. … Xreal is having a big CES.
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| Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
A viral Reddit post by a purported developer alleging that a “major food delivery app” exploits drivers appears AI-generated; Uber and DoorDash deny the claims — It might be AI-generated, but food delivery apps do have a track record of exploiting workers.
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| Jeremy White / Wired: |
Lego unveils the Smart Play platform, with a brick powered by a custom chip that connects to compatible minifigures and tags for interactive lights and sounds — The new sensor-packed Smart Play Brick will land this spring as part of a special Star Wars collection.
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| 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 …
More: BBC, Social Media Today, Al Jazeera, Mashable, Reuters, and Bloomberg
| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
AMD unveils Ryzen AI 400 Series AI PC chips with 12 CPU cores, claiming 1.3x faster multitasking and 1.7x faster content creation than rivals — AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su kicked off her keynote at CES 2026 with a message about what compute could deliver: AI for everyone.
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Google plans to add Nano Banana and Veo support into Gemini on Google TV, letting users generate AI videos, modify family photos, and more, first on TCL TVs — You'll also be able to ask for custom ‘deep dives’ on subjects, complete with narration and interactive elements.
More: The Keyword, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, The Economic Times, Pocket-lint, Android Police, PCMag, Computerworld, and FlatpanelsHD. Forums: r/Android
| Nikkei Asia: |
Nvidia says it's seeing “strong” demand from China for its H200 chips but is awaiting approvals from both Washington and Beijing before sales could begin — LAS VEGAS — Nvidia says it has seen strong demand from China for its H200 chips, but the company is still waiting …
More: Bloomberg
| Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: |
Why Claude Code is much more than a coding agent: it is a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything a user can on a computer, with impressive results — It's a general-purpose AI agent. And it's already a pretty good knowledge worker — Over the holiday break, the news spread like wildfire.
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