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 (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
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Elon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children
Regulators in Europe, India and Malaysia are scrutinizing X after exploitative images created with the Grok chatbot went viral on Elon Musk's socia...
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X faces fresh probes in Europe, India, and Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children; the UK
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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 (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
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A look at how Mercedes Benz, Nvidia collaborated on autonomous vehicles
Nvidia outlined its Alpamayo open AI models and datasets to bring reasoning to autonomous vehicles. At CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Merce...
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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
By Larry Dignan / Constellation Research. View the full context on Techmeme.
Boston Dynamics partners with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics models into Atlas robots, boosting their object-manipulation capabilities and more (Will Knight/Wired)
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Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors
Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics are teaming up to integrate Gemini into a humanoid robot called Atlas.
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Boston Dynamics partners with Google DeepMind to deploy a Gemini Robotics model on its robots, boosting their ability to navigate, manipulate objects, and more
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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 (Michael Justin Allen Sexton/PCMag)
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Intel's 'Panther Lake' Core Ultra Laptop Chips Are Ready for Prime Time: All the Details We Know So Far
At CES, Intel details its launch lineup for the new Core Ultra Series 3 processors (based on its 2nm 18A architecture) that will launch this month ...
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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
By Michael Justin Allen Sexton / PCMag. View the full context on Techmeme.
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 (Rich Woods/XDA Developers)
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Dell revives XPS, and the new ones are totally different
Only a year after the brand was killed off
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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
By Rich Woods / XDA Developers. View the full context on Techmeme.
Nvidia launches the Vera Rubin platform, saying it will offer dramatic reductions in inference and training costs compared to Blackwell, across six new chips (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
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Nvidia launches Vera Rubin AI computing platform at CES 2026
Rubin’s rolling out early.
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Nvidia launches Vera Rubin, saying the platform uses extreme codesign across six chips “to slash training time and inference token costs” compared to Blackwell
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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 (Hyonhee Shin/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-05/hyundai-unveils-new-humanoid-robot-to-work-in-its-car-factories
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Boston Dynamics unveils a new iteration of its Atlas humanoid robot designed to work in Hyundai
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A live blog of Nvidia's keynote with CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2026, where the company is showcasing AI, robotics, simulation, gaming, and more (Katie Teague/Engadget) https://www.engadget.com/computing/watch-the-nvidia-ces-2026-keynote-with-ceo-jensen-huang-live-here-ai-robotics-updates-and-more-130028170.html
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A live blog of Nvidia
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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 (Jeremy White/Wired)
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Lego’s Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain
The new sensor-packed Smart Play Brick will land this spring as part of a special Star Wars collection. The update adds interactive lights and soun...
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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
By Jeremy White / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
A viral Reddit post by a purported developer alleging that a "major food delivery app" exploits drivers is likely AI-generated; Uber, DoorDash deny the claims (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
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That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
AI slop comes for Reddit.
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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
By Elissa Welle / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.