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)
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Telegram bonds worth $500M are frozen in Russia under Western sanctions; filings: its H1 2025 revenue rose 66% YoY to $870M, driven by $300M from Toncoin deals
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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)
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AMD heard you like powerful gaming portables — so here are new Strix Halo chips
The Ryzen AI Max Plus 388 and 392.
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AMD unveils the 12-core Ryzen AI Max+ 392 and the 8-core AI Max+ 388 processors, both with 40 graphics compute units and offering 60 TFLOPS of GPU performance
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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)
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AMD unveils new AI PC processors for general use and gaming at CES | TechCrunch
AMD announced the latest version of its AI-powered PC chips designed for a variety of tasks, from gaming to content creation and multitasking.
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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
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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)
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Jensen Huang Says Nvidia’s New Vera Rubin Chips Are in ‘Full Production’
The chip giant says Vera Rubin will sharply cut the cost of training and running AI models, strengthening the appeal of its integrated computing pl...
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia
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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)
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Asus ROG’s next ally is Xreal, with 240Hz AR glasses coming in 2026
The ROG Control Dock includes HDMI and DisplayPort.
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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; the price is TBA
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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)
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Nvidia sees 'strong' H200 AI chip demand in China, awaiting governments' approval
Washington is working on export licenses while Beijing yet to give clear signal
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Nvidia says it is seeing “strong” demand from China for its H200 chips but is still awaiting approvals from both Washington and Beijing before sales can begin
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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)
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
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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)
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I tested Nvidia’s Tesla Full Self-Driving competitor — Tesla should be worried
Can Nvidia outpace Tesla?
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A look at Nvidia
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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
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