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January 7, 2025, 7:30 AM

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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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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 …
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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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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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.’
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.
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
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  —  Meta AI put a Redditor into “an endless maze of mirrors” as part of a new AI feature it is testing.
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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