Internal memo: Hark, the new AI lab from Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, backed by $100M of his own capital, has hired 30+ engineers from Apple, Meta, and others (Rocket Drew/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/hark-hires-leadership-apple-meta
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Internal memo: Hark, the AI lab founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock and funded with $100M of his capital, has hired 30+ engineers from Apple, Meta, and others
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Google will now publish new source code to the Android Open Source Project twice a year, down from releasing source code for each quarterly Android release (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
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Breaking: Google will now only release Android source code twice a year
Instead of four times a year, Google will now only release Android source code to AOSP twice a year, once in Q2 and again in Q4.
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Google will now publish new source code to the Android Open Source Project twice per year, down from releasing source code for every quarterly Android release
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Jensen Huang says he isn't concerned about a billionaires tax under consideration in California, and plans to remain in Silicon Valley (Bloomberg)
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Nvidia CEO Says He’s ‘Perfectly Fine’ With Billionaires Tax
Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, the world’s ninth-richest person and head of the most valuable company, said he isn’t concer...
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Jensen Huang says he is “perfectly fine” with California
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xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding the $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training (xAI)
xAI Raises $20B Series E | xAI
xAI is rapidly accelerating its progress in building advanced AI.
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xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding its $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training
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Sandisk shares jump ~23% after Jensen Huang highlighted the need for memory and storage at CES; SNDK is up 40%+ in the first three trading sessions of 2026 (Felice Maranz/Bloomberg)
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Sandisk’s 1,000% Rally Is Turbocharged By Nvidia CEO’s Remarks
Sandisk Corp. shares jumped 28% Tuesday, their best performance since February, after Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang highlighted...
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Sandisk
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Nvidia brings its G-Sync Pulsar tech to four monitors, which reduces motion blur by using a "rolling scan" scheme that briefly pulses the monitors' backlight (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
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Nvidia’s new G-Sync Pulsar monitors target motion blur at the human retina level
Four new monitors promise "effective motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor."
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Nvidia brings its G-Sync Pulsar tech, which reduces motion blur by using a “rolling scan” scheme that briefly pulses the monitors
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Buyout firm Hg agrees to acquire enterprise financial software maker OneStream in an all-cash deal valued at ~$6.4B that is set to close in H1 2026 (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/buyout-firm-hg-to-take-onestream-private-in-6-4-billion-deal
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Buyout firm Hg agrees to acquire financial software maker OneStream for ~$6.4B in cash, a 31% premium on its January 5 stock price, set to close in H1 2026
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AWS implemented a 15% price hike for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML on January 3; Amazon says it "reflects the supply/demand patterns we expect this quarter" (Corey Quinn/The Register)
AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday
: An anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter
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Amazon raised AWS
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Asus redesigns the Zenbook Duo with a new "hideaway" hinge that shrinks the gap between the laptop's two 3K 144Hz Lumina Pro OLED displays to just 8.28 mm (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
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The ASUS Zenbook Duo got a fantastic redesign for CES 2026
Two years after introducing its first dual screen laptop, ASUS is giving the Zenbook Duo the major revamp it deserves.
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Asus redesigns the Zenbook Duo with a new “hideaway” hinge that shrinks the gap between the laptop
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Internal memo: Meta names CJ Mahoney, former Microsoft legal executive and deputy US Trade Representative during Trump's first term, as its chief legal officer (Sara Fischer/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2026/01/06/meta-hires-chief-legal-officer-cj-mahoney
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Meta names C.J. Mahoney, former Microsoft legal executive and deputy US Trade Representative during Trump
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