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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: the $1,999 RTX 5090, the $999 RTX 5080, the $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and the $549 RTX 5070, available from January — Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today. After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia says the RTX 5090 has 92B transistors, 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM, 4,000 AI TOPS, and support for next-gen DLSS 4, which can now generate multiple frames at once — As anticipated, Nvidia Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils Mega, an “Omniverse Blueprint” for developing, testing, and optimizing physical AI and robot fleets at scale in a digital twin before deployment — Nvidia unveils Mega Omniverse blueprint for building industrial robot fleet digital twins, as part of a CES 2025 keynote speech by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia announces the Llama Nemotron and Cosmos Nemotron family of AI models to advance agentic AI, available in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes on Hugging Face — Nvidia announced Nemotron Model Families to advance agentic AI as part of its bevy of AI announcements at CES 2025 today.
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's Cosmos models for humanoids were trained on 20M hours of real footage of “humans walking, hands moving, manipulating things” — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the new family of foundational AI models was trained on 20 million hours of “humans walking; hands moving, manipulating things.”| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia shares Cosmos World Foundation Models, a family of world models that can generate “physics-aware” videos, available from Hugging Face and Nvidia's API — Nvidia is getting into world models — AI models that take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally.
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Dell rebrands its PCs as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each with Base, Plus, and Premium tiers, killing names like XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, and Precision — The PC manufacturer's new laptops, desktops, and monitors will have a simplified naming scheme with labels like ‘Pro’ and ‘Max.’
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| Darragh Murphy / Tom's Guide: |
HDMI Forum unveils the HDMI 2.2 spec, with better audio and video sync and 96Gbps bandwidth for resolutions up to 12K at 120Hz, and the required “Ultra96” cable — Plus a sneak peek at the new Ultra96 HDMI Cable — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta elects new board directors: UFC CEO and outspoken Donald Trump supporter Dana White, former Microsoft executive Charlie Songhurst, and Exor CEO John Elkann — - White has been outspoken ally of US President-elect Trump — Investor Songhurst, Exor CEO Elkann also named as directors
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| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
After complaints from the BBC, Apple plans an Apple Intelligence update “in the coming weeks” that “will further clarify” when it is summarizing notifications — Apple has said it will update, rather than pause, a new artificial intelligence (AI) …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD unveils Ryzen AI Max+ laptop chips with an integrated memory architecture, up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, and claims 84% faster rendering than the M4 Pro MacBook — Disruption is a daily thing. — AMD announced its ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max series laptop processors here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas …
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| Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Google previews Google TV changes coming in 2025, including adding Gemini, more natural voice commands, improved content search, and deeper YouTube integration — Alphabet Inc.'s consumer team will give TV sets running its Google TV operating system an AI upgrade by adding Gemini to its Google Assistant voice-control system.
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple plans to expand Apple News in more countries and considered building locally focused news coverage in the UK; Apple News has 125M monthly users — Tech group now a force in driving revenues for publishers in US, UK, Canada and Australia — Unlock the Editor's Digest for free
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| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeted the Philippine president's office and stole sensitive data as part of a yearslong, broad espionage campaign — - Some stolen documents related to dispute over South China Sea — Most of the hacks took place from early 2023 to June 2024| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit — Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery will pay Fubo $220 million to settle antitrust suit — Disney announced a deal …
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