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Bruna Horvath / NBC News:
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …
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Fox News:
Meta's Joel Kaplan says the Trump administration is “a huge supporter of free expression”, which “gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on”  —  FIRST ON FOX: Meta is ending its fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on speech to …
New York Times:
Meta will move trust and safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas, to remove concerns “that biased employees are overly censoring content”  —  The move will end a third-party fact-checking system and rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts.
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Nvidia says the RTX 5090 has 92B transistors, 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM, 4,000 AI TOPS, and DLSS 4, which can use AI to generate up to three frames per rendered frame  —  As anticipated, Nvidia Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia unveils RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090 and a $999 RTX 5080 coming on January 30 and a $749 RTX 5070 Ti and a $549 RTX 5070 in February  —  Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today.  After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Nvidia unveils Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” with a new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip and says it can run models up to 200B parameters in size
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Jensen Huang predicts robotics could become “the largest technology industry the world has ever seen”; Nvidia: the humanoids market will reach $38B in 20 years  —  Jensen Huang unveils AI models for humanoids and self-driving car partnership with Toyota at CES keynote
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia debuts the Llama Nemotron and Cosmos Nemotron family of models to advance agentic AI, in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes, on Nvidia's site and Hugging Face
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Screenshots: several employees' posts critical of Meta's new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta's ICC, which aims to “minimize disruption” internally  —  “Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE.”
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Meta will lift restrictions on “topics that are part of mainstream discourse”, like immigration and gender, and focus on “illegal and high-severity violations”  —  Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul …
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 is facing a fresh call to withdraw its controversial artificial intelligence (AI) …
Michael Flaherty / Axios:
Getty Images Holdings and Shutterstock agree to merge in a deal that creates a $3.7B company; Getty CEO Craig Peters will remain CEO of the combined business  —  - Shutterstock shareholders get one of the following: $28.84 per share in cash ($1.03 billion based on Shutterstock's outstanding shares) …
Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
Lenovo announces the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable AI PC, a laptop featuring a 14-inch screen that can extend vertically to 16.7 inches, coming in Q1 for $3,499  —  With a notebook PC with a screen that rolls, a monitor with directional audio, and the first third-party SteamOS gaming handheld, Lenovo is hitting CES 2025 hard.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Lenovo unveils the $499 Legion Go S, the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld, weighing 1.6 pounds and ditching the previous gen's detachable gamepads  —  Lenovo is trying an experiment.  In May, it will officially become the very first company outside of Valve to ship a handheld gaming PC …
Reuters:
The US NHTSA says it has opened a probe into ~2.6M Tesla vehicles over reports of four reported crashes involving its “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature  —  The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it had opened a probe into about 2.6 million Tesla …
Reuters:
Satya Nadella says Microsoft will invest ~$3B to expand Azure cloud and AI capacity in India and train 10M people in AI by 2030, after upskilling 2.4M in 2024  —  Microsoft (MSFT.O) will invest about $3 billion to expand capacity for artificial intelligence and its Azure cloud-computing services in India …

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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Meta says it's testing an “Imagine Yourself” feature announced in September that automatically generates AI images of a user and puts them into that user's feed
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for 10AM PT on January 22 in San Jose, where Galaxy AI updates, the Galaxy S25 lineup, and more are expected

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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
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
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
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
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
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