Nvidia unveils DLSS 4.5 with a new 6x Multi Frame Generation for the RTX 50 series, and a second-generation Super Resolution transformer model for all RTX GPUs (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Analysts expect Samsung's Q4 operating profit to jump 160% YoY to ~$11.7B, driven by a severe global shortage of memory chips amid booming AI demand (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/samsung-likely-flag-160-jump-q4-profit-ai-boom-stokes-chip-prices-2026-01-06/
Telegram bonds worth $500M are frozen in Russia under western sanctions; filings: its H1 2025 revenue rose 65% YoY to $870M, driven by $300M from Toncoin deals (Financial Times)
AMD unveils two Ryzen AI Max+ chips, the 392 with 12 cores and the 388 with 8 cores, both offering 40 graphics compute units and 60 teraflops of performance (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
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 (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
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 (Lauren Goode/Wired)
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 (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
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 (Nikkei Asia)
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 (Niki Tonsky/tonsky.me)
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 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)