Accenture agrees to acquire UK AI startup Faculty, which works with the UK government, for an undisclosed sum; Faculty CEO Marc Warner will become Accenture CTO (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/accenture-plans-to-buy-uk-palantir-rival-faculty-in-consultancy-s-ai-push
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Accenture acquires UK-based AI startup Faculty, which works with the UK government, for an undisclosed sum; Faculty CEO Marc Warner will become Accenture
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Meta and Garmin show an early demo of using Meta's wrist-based neural band inside of a car to control an infotainment system, as part of Garmin's Unified Cabin (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
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Meta's EMG wristband is moving beyond its AR glasses
At CES 2026, Meta is offering its first look at how its neural band could be used to control devices outside of its smart glasses lineup.
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Meta and Garmin demo using the Meta Ray-Ban Display
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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" (Steve Dent/Engadget)
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Meta has delayed the international rollout of its display glasses
Meta is pausing release of its Ray-Ban Display smart glasses to the UK, France, Italy and Canada due to "unprecedented demand and limited inventory."
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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”
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German car parts supplier Bosch plans to invest €2.5B+ in AI by the end of 2027 and unveils AI-based driver-assist systems with features like automatic parking (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/bosch-to-invest-2-9-billion-in-ai-over-next-couple-of-years-83d6b4f8?st=DEZBfs&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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German car parts supplier Bosch plans to invest €2.5B+ in AI by the end of 2027 and unveils AI-based driver-assist systems with features like automatic parking
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HP unveils the Eliteboard G1a, a compact desktop PC in the form of a keyboard, powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series chip, set for March launch; pricing is TBC (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
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HP crammed an entire desktop computer into this keyboard
It’s a keyputer!
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HP unveils the Eliteboard G1a, a mini desktop PC in the form of a keyboard, powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series chip, set to launch in March; pricing is TBC
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Intel unveils the Arc B390 integrated GPU, offering improved gaming performance, and says it will power gaming handhelds built by MSI, Acer, Microsoft, and more (Madeline Ricchiuto/IGN) https://www.ign.com/articles/exclusive-intel-is-making-its-own-handheld-gaming-pc-chips-at-ces-2026
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Intel unveils the Arc B390 integrated GPU, offering improved gaming performance, and says it will power gaming handhelds built by MSI, Acer, Microsoft, and more
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Singapore-based data center operator DayOne raised a $2B Series C led by Coatue to build hyperscale campuses in Lahti and Kouvola, Finland, and elsewhere (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/dayone-data-centers-raises-over-2-billion-fund-europe-asia-expansion-2026-01-06/
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Singapore-based data center operator DayOne raised a $2B+ Series C led by Coatue to build hyperscale campuses in Lahti and Kouvola, Finland, and elsewhere
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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 (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
AI and the Human Condition – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
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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
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Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for select Linux distributions and Amazon Fire TV sticks, available in early 2026 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting native Linux and Fire TV apps
GeForce Now is also getting flight controls support
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Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for select Linux distributions and Amazon Fire TV devices, available in early 2026
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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 (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/amd-unveils-new-chips-ces-event-las-vegas-2026-01-06/
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AMD says the Instinct MI500 AI chips are coming in 2027, with up to 1,000x the AI performance of the MI300X, and unveils the MI440X for enterprise deployments
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