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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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia rolls out DLSS 4.5 with new 6x Multi Frame Generation for the RTX 50 series, and a second-generation Super Resolution transformer model for all RTX GPUs — All RTX owners will get DLSS 4.5 model and image quality improvements today. … Nvidia is announcing its next major update …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for select Linux distributions and Amazon Fire TV sticks, 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 …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips are in “full production”; Nvidia says Rubin can train some LLMs with 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.| 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 — 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: |
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| 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.
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| 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 … | 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 — Nvidia outlined its Alpamayo open AI models and datasets to bring reasoning to autonomous vehicles.
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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 …
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| 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 — The airline aims to have its entire fleet connected by spring 2026. … American Airlines announced it would be offering free … | 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.
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| Hyonhee Shin / Bloomberg: |
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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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| 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 — 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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| Madeline Ricchiuto / IGN: |
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| Rich Woods / XDA Developers: |
Dell revives the XPS brand with new XPS 14 and 16 laptops, offering new designs, Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips, and tandem OLED screens, but no dedicated GPUs — 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.| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Ring revamps its home sensors, including door, window, and break glass sensors built on the Amazon Sidewalk protocol, and expands the protocol internationally — Alongside a bunch of AI-enabled smart alerts. — Ring turned up to CES with a whole host of announcements, including a revamped range of home sensors.
More: The Verge, PCWorld, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Verge, and About Amazon
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Even if AI could take over every job, humans will invent new work for themselves, because we value human effort and connection, not just output — AI might replace all of the jobs; that's only a problem if you think that humans will care, but if they care, they will create new jobs.
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