Boston Dynamics partners with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics models into Atlas robots, boosting their object-manipulation capabilities and more (Will Knight/Wired)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Sources: Nvidia has struggled to monetize its Omniverse software and the company shuttered the Omniverse Cloud service in August 2025 due to lack of demand (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidias-big-ambitions-solve-manufacturing-shows-slow-returns-far
Why Claude Code is much more than a coding agent: it is a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything on a computer with impressive capabilities (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)