| 11:05 PM • | Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: Chinese AI startup MiniMax's stock closed up 109% in its Hong Kong debut on January 9, after raising ~$619M in its IPO, which was priced at ~$21.17 per share |
| 10:20 PM • | The Information: Source: Lambda, which rents access to AI chips and is backed by Nvidia, is in talks to raise $350M+ led by Mubadala Capital, ahead of an IPO planned for H2 2026 |
| 9:20 PM • | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Spangle AI, which offers AI tools for online retailers to generate custom storefronts, raised a $15M Series A led by NewRoad at a $100M valuation |
| 7:55 PM • | Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots |
| 7:50 PM • | Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia has hired Google Cloud VP of Marketing Alison Wagonfeld to be Nvidia's first CMO, starting in February; source: Wagonfeld will report to CEO Jensen Huang |
| 7:05 PM • | Sophie Bates / Associated Press: Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves says xAI will spend $20B to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, xAI's third data center in the greater Memphis area |
| 6:00 PM • | Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran GOP operative and a former top DOGE lawyer, as a lobbyist, the latest indication of its cozy Trump relationship |
| 5:05 PM • | Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; in December, the acquisition was reported to be valued at ~$1B |
| 4:25 PM • | The Information: Sources: Strava, the fitness startup founded in 2009, confidentially filed for an IPO; source: Strava grew revenue 50%+ YoY in 2025 but to still less than $500M |
| 3:50 PM • | Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks with investors to raise ~$2B, after raising $1.5B+ across a pair of rounds in September and October |
| 3:45 PM • | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI launches a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to help with medical reasoning and reduce administrative work, at Cedars-Sinai and elsewhere |
| 3:25 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a disagreement over its research direction |
| 3:10 PM • | Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac: Statcounter: only ~15% of iPhone users have iOS 26 installed four months after its release; in January 2025, ~63% of users were using iOS 18, a 4x adoption rate |
| 3:00 PM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: Google, Meta, Netflix, Microsoft, and Amazon will be subject to a voluntary framework rather than binding rules under the EU's Digital Networks Act |
| 2:35 PM • | Hadas Gold / CNN: Source: weeks before Grok started “digitally undressing” people, Musk expressed frustration to xAI staff about restrictions on Grok's image and video generator |
| 2:30 PM • | Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Are people updating to iOS 26? Here's what the data reportedly shows |
| 2:15 PM • | Cody Combs / The National: NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers, as protests spread to 100+ cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic share dropped 85% |
| 2:00 PM • | Ann Gehan / The Information: Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data |
| 12:30 PM • | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: Tailwind Labs, the maker of Tailwind CSS, lays off staff after online traffic to its documentation fell ~40% from 2023 due to AI, causing an ~80% revenue drop |
| 12:20 PM • | Leo Schwartz / Fortune: ThreatModeler, which helps developers identify vulnerabilities in their applications, acquires IriusRisk, its largest competitor, a source says for $100M+ |
| 11:49 AM • | New York Times: A profile of Apple SVP of Hardware Engineering John Ternus; sources: Ternus is seen as the front-runner to succeed Tim Cook, who wants to reduce his workload |
| 11:40 AM • | Jessica Hopkins / The Athletic: FIFA says that parts of 2026 World Cup matches will be broadcast live on TikTok and select creators will get access to press conferences and training sessions |
| 11:05 AM • | Dave Sebastian / Bloomberg: Chinese AI startup MiniMax raises ~$619M in its Hong Kong IPO, at the top of its marketed range; sources: its institutional offering was oversubscribed by 70x+ |
| 10:45 AM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: CrowdStrike acquires identity management startup SGNL, in a deal valued at nearly $740M, to bolster identity security defenses on its flagship Falcon platform |
| 10:42 AM • | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Microsoft debuts Copilot Checkout in the US, enabling in-chat purchases via PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, and more; Shopify merchants will be automatically enrolled |
| 10:15 AM • | Amy Feldman / Forbes: NYC-based Pomelo Care, which offers 24/7 virtual care for women by using data to flag pregnancy risks and more, raised $92M led by Stripes at a $1.7B valuation |
| 9:15 AM • | Chainalysis: Illicit crypto addresses received a record $154B in 2025, up 162% YoY, driven by sanctions evasion; Russia's A7A5 token transacted $93.3B+ in less than one year |
| 8:30 AM • | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A |
| 8:15 AM • | Louise Breusch Rasmussen / Reuters: The European Commission orders X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual images |
| 8:11 AM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users, after previously requiring a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription |
| 8:06 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail that shows users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US “trusted testers” |
| 7:45 AM • | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Israeli data security startup Cyera raised a $400M Series F led by Blackstone Growth at a $9B valuation, up from $6B after raising $540M in June 2025 |
| 7:35 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: China is considering how to build fences around its AI know-how amid the AI race and is identifying standout companies to add to an export control list |
| 7:20 AM • | Jesse Drucker / New York Times: Sources and US tax lawyers: the IRS' planned audit of private equity and VC firms is faltering under President Trump; nearly all the project's leaders have left |
| 7:01 AM • | Tom Phillips / IGN: Lego says its Smart Brick is “here to stay” but “does not mean that we're leaving our core proposition behind”, after criticism it's abandoning non-digital play |
| 6:30 AM • | Jennifer Maas / Variety: Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood predicts “we'll see the first 100% AI-generated hit movie” within three years and discusses Roku's new $3/month Howdy service |
| 6:01 AM • | Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: Sources: wealthy Californians are quietly mobilizing on WhatsApp chats and calls in a long-shot bid to oust Representative Ro Khanna, who supports a wealth tax |
| 5:40 AM • | Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: Sources: China's Salt Typhoon accessed the emails of top US House committee staff, detected in December, and intercepted senior US officials' calls for years |
| 5:15 AM • | Bloomberg: A profile of VC firm Index Ventures, which saw billions in gains from exits in 2025, including Figma, Scale AI, and Dream Games, as it looks ahead to succession |
| 4:55 AM • | Margaux MacColl / The San Francisco Standard: A profile of Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, who a source says some investors have accused of being antisemitic for his ongoing criticism of Israel's war in Gaza |
| 4:35 AM • | CNBC: China says it will investigate Meta's Manus acquisition to assess compliance with laws on export controls, tech import and export, and overseas investment |
| 2:36 AM • | John Liu / Bloomberg: Sources: China plans to approve some of Nvidia's H200 imports as soon as Q1 2026 but bar them from the military, some agencies, and critical infrastructure |
| 2:30 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Big US hospital systems have become a proving ground for widespread AI adoption; a survey finds that 27% of health systems are paying for commercial AI licenses |
| 2:20 AM • | Rest of World: Chinese local governments have funded 40+ “robot training centers”, where humans mimic movements like folding clothes and wiping tables to teach the robots |
| 2:10 AM • | David Shepardson / Reuters: The US FCC exempts some new models of foreign-made drones and critical components from a sweeping import ban, announced in December 2025, until the end of 2026 |
| 1:35 AM • | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Samsung appears to have shelved Ballie, a robot it announced six years ago but never released, calling it an “active innovation platform” within the company |
| 1:30 AM • | Reuters: Sources: to hedge against Beijing approval risk, Nvidia is requiring Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, with no cancellations, refunds, or changes |
| 1:25 AM • | Chris Kerr / Game Developer: Ubisoft closes its mobile game-focused Halifax studio, weeks after the majority of the workers voted to unionize; CWA Canada says it is “demanding information” |
| 1:05 AM • | Financial Times: Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horvitz warns that the US' academic research funding cuts could push talent and ideas abroad and hand rivals a tech lead |
| 12:45 AM • | Wired: Grok's website and app are being used to produce extremely graphic, sometimes violent, sexual imagery of adults that is vastly more explicit than images on X |
| 12:15 AM • | Yantoultra Ngui / Reuters: Chinese AI company Z.ai closed up 13.2% in its Hong Kong trading debut, after raising ~$558M in its IPO at a ~$6.55B valuation, amid a flurry of AI startup IPOs |
| 10:40 PM • | Sri Muppidi / The Information: Sources: OpenAI last fall set aside RSUs worth 10% of the startup, which was valued in October 2025 at $500B; OpenAI has already awarded ~$80B in vested equity |
| 8:55 PM • | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Cyera researchers detail Ni8mare, a critical RCE flaw that lets attackers access local instances of workflow automation platform n8n, impacting ~100K servers |
| 7:50 PM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Ford plans to add an AI voice assistant to its apps in 2026 before expanding it to its vehicles in 2027, and aims to debut Level 3 autonomous driving in 2028 |
| 7:30 PM • | Reuters: Arm forms a Physical AI unit focused on robotics and automotive sectors, as part of a reorganization that also includes “Cloud and AI” and “Edge” business units |
| 7:10 PM • | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung expects Q4 operating profit up 208% YoY to ~$13.8B, vs. ~$12.3B est., and revenue up 23% YoY to ~$64.2B, as AI server demand lifts memory chip prices |
| 6:50 PM • | Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: The Trump family's World Liberty Financial says World Liberty Trust applied for a US banking license, which would let it issue and safeguard its USD1 stablecoin |
| 6:10 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Larry Page bought two Miami estates in December and January for a combined $173.4M; Sergey Brin is also said to be in discussions to buy a Miami home |
| 5:15 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features: member tags that show user roles, text stickers generated from any word, and custom event reminders |
| 4:50 PM • | Barron's Online: Alphabet surpassed Apple in market cap for the first time since 2019 after its shares closed up 2.5% on January 7, valuing it at $3.89T, above Apple's $3.85T |
| 4:15 PM • | Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Lux Capital raised $1.5B for its ninth fund, the largest in its history, to back companies focusing on fields like breakthrough science and national security |
| 3:47 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Apple says JPMorgan will take over issuing the Apple Card from Goldman, which sources say will offload ~$20B in balances; the banks expect a two-year transition |
| 2:45 PM • | Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, which lets users import medical records and other data from wellness apps into ChatGPT, available to a small group via a waitlist |
| 1:55 PM • | Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Docs: Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits with families of teenagers who killed or harmed themselves after interacting with Character.AI's chatbot |
| 1:08 PM • | Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic plans to raise $10B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue at a $350B valuation before the new investment, up from $183B in September 2025 |
| 12:50 PM • | Gabriele Steinhauser / Wall Street Journal: Cambodia extradites Chen Zhi, the chair of online scam conglomerate Prince Group, to China; in October 2025, the US DOJ seized Chen's bitcoin worth nearly $12B |
| 11:45 AM • | Politico: Utah launches a pilot program with health tech startup Doctronic to let AI systems handle routine prescription renewals for patients with chronic conditions |
| 11:00 AM • | Jing Yang / The Information: Source: Ant Group's Ant International grew revenue by 20% to 25% in 2025 to an estimated $3.7B, or ~10% of Ant's total 2025 revenue, as it competes with Visa |
| 10:50 AM • | Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: Polymarket agrees to supply Dow Jones outlets like the WSJ and Barron's with prediction market trading data for online and in print, its first media partnership |
| 10:45 AM • | Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: China has told some local tech companies to temporarily halt purchase orders for Nvidia's H200 chips while officials deliberate whether to approve them |
| 10:40 AM • | Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Spotify launches Listening Activity on iOS and Android, letting users view friends' real-time listening via the sidebar alongside chats, as an opt-in feature |
| 10:30 AM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks agrees to acquire accounting platform TRES Finance, sources say for $130M in cash and equity; TRES raised $11M in 2023 |
| 10:10 AM • | Axios: London-based e-commerce logistics startup Swap raised a $100M Series C led by DST Global and Iconiq, after raising a $40M Series B in March 2025 |
| 9:40 AM • | Jamie Smyth / Financial Times: As Trump and Big Tech aim to build SMRs to “win” the AI race, a look at the issues they face; none of the 50+ SMRs under development have a US operating license |
| 8:30 AM • | Matthew Kish / Oregonian: Nike quietly sold its digital products subsidiary RTFKT on December 16 for an undisclosed sum, after Nike acquired it in 2021 and shuttered the NFT unit in 2024 |
| 8:10 AM • | Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal: Memo: JPMorgan's asset management unit cuts all proxy advisory firm ties and will use its AI-powered Proxy IQ platform to assist on US votes, an industry first |
| 7:45 AM • | Financial Times: London-based data center startup GTR raised $1.5B from KKR and ~$400M from Oak Hill to develop its facilities in England, Barcelona, Zurich, and Tel Aviv |
| 7:35 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Intel spinout and enterprise AI startup Articul8 raised over half of a $70M Series B at a $500M pre-money valuation and expects the round to close in Q1 2026 |
| 7:26 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox expands using Persona's tech for age estimations for chat features to all regions, after rolling it out in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands |
| 7:15 AM • | Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition offer, saying the bid still has “significant” risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer |
| 7:00 AM • | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or “nudifying” images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of all Grok images are sexualized |
| 6:45 AM • | Kyu-seok Shim / Reuters: Filing: Samsung plans to acquire ~$1.73B of its stock for employee and executive compensation, as part of a performance-linked scheme introduced in October 2025 |
| 6:25 AM • | Michael Acton / Financial Times: Jensen Huang says Nvidia has “fired up” H200 production in the expectation of resuming China sales and it is finishing the “last details” with the US government |
| 6:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Samsung says it expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products |
| 6:00 AM • | Financial Times: Polymarket is disputing that the US mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an “invasion”, refusing to pay out bets on a contract with $10.5M+ in wagers |
| 5:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Chinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax are set to go public in Hong Kong on January 8 and 9, respectively; Zhipu has 8,000+ clients and MiniMax has 210M+ users |
| 4:00 AM • | Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: GWI: LinkedIn's revenue rose from $7B in 2020 to $17B in 2025 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once daily in 2025, vs. 3.9% in 2020 |
| 2:50 AM • | Bloomberg: A look at Kalshi's and Polymarket's lucrative shift toward sports, as bets on real-world events raise questions about access, integrity, and US CFTC regulation |
| 2:30 AM • | Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: As data center development jeopardizes the power grid, US officials propose requiring data centers to power down or switch to a backup when blackout risks rise |
| 2:20 AM • | Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: Q&A with Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu on his new role as Google's chief AI architect, Gemini 3, agents, the progress toward the goal of AGI, and more |
| 2:10 AM • | Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: How Google's more ambitious approach to training Gemini on text, code, audio, images, and video helped it stage a comeback, triggering a Code Red inside OpenAI |
| 2:05 AM • | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: PitchBook-NVCA: global VC investments hit $512B in 2025 and AI accounted for 50%+; fundraising fell to $118.6B, a 10-year low and nearly $100B less than in 2024 |
| 1:20 AM • | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Dutch fintech Bunq applies to become a US bank; Klaros: more than 30 companies have applied to become US banks under the second Trump administration |
| 1:05 AM • | Puyaan Singh / Reuters: The US FDA says it will limit regulation of non-medical wellness wearables and AI software, provided they don't make claims about disease diagnosis or treatment |
| 12:50 AM • | Bloomberg: China unveils rules banning major platforms like Alibaba from coercing merchants into discounts or practices seen as disrupting market order, effective February |
| 11:20 PM • | Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Filings: Larry Page moved his assets out of California ahead of its proposed wealth tax, meeting an end-of-2025 deadline; a source says he had left the state |
| 11:15 PM • | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Motorola unveils the Razr Fold, its first book-style foldable phone, with a 6.6" outer display and an 8.1" 2K LTPO inner screen, expected to launch this summer |
| 9:20 PM • | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Lenovo introduces Qira, a system-level, cross-device AI assistant for both its computers and Motorola smartphones, set to arrive later in Q1 2026 |
| 8:55 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: Chinese officials are reviewing Meta's $2B Manus acquisition for possible tech export control violations, including Manus' relocation to Singapore |
| 8:15 PM • | Evan Halper / Washington Post: How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like local water supplies and electricity prices |
| 6:55 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Discord files confidentially for a US IPO, working with Goldman and JPMorgan; Discord was valued at ~$15B in 2021, and rejected a $12B Microsoft offer |
| 6:20 PM • | Allison Smith / Modern Retail: Brands complain Amazon's “Buy for Me” AI-powered shopping tool features their products on Amazon without permission, listing titles and descriptions with errors |
| 5:15 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: In the first successful US prosecution of a spyware operator in 10+ years, pcTattletale's founder pleads guilty to promoting surveillance apps for unlawful uses |
| 4:20 PM • | Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Mobileye acquires Israel-based humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $900M; Mentee was founded in 2022 and has raised $50M |
| 3:55 PM • | Rocket Drew / The Information: Internal memo: Hark, the AI lab founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock and funded with $100M of his capital, has hired 30+ engineers from Apple, Meta, and others |
| 3:30 PM • | Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: Google will now publish new source code to the Android Open Source Project twice per year, down from releasing source code for every quarterly Android release |
| 3:10 PM • | Bloomberg: Jensen Huang says he is “perfectly fine” with California's proposed tax on billionaires and plans to remain in the state; Nvidia is based in Santa Clara |
| 3:05 PM • | xAI: xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding its $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training |
| 2:10 PM • | Felice Maranz / Bloomberg: Sandisk's stock jumped 25%+ after Jensen Huang highlighted the need for memory and storage at CES; SNDK is up 40%+ in the first three trading sessions of 2026 |
| 1:40 PM • | Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: Nvidia brings its G-Sync Pulsar tech, which reduces motion blur by using a “rolling scan” scheme that briefly pulses the monitors' backlight, to four monitors |
| 1:20 PM • | Bloomberg: Buyout firm Hg agrees to acquire financial software maker OneStream for ~$6.4B in cash, a 31% premium on its January 5 stock price, set to close in H1 2026 |
| 1:10 PM • | Corey Quinn / The Register: Amazon raised AWS' EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML prices by ~15% on January 3, saying the adjustment “reflects the supply/demand patterns we expect this quarter” |
| 12:55 PM • | Sam Rutherford / Engadget: Asus redesigns the Zenbook Duo with a new “hideaway” hinge that shrinks the gap between the laptop's two 3K 144Hz Lumina Pro OLED displays to just 8.28 mm |
| 12:30 PM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Meta names C.J. Mahoney, former Microsoft legal executive and deputy US Trade Representative during Trump's first term, as its chief legal officer |
| 12:20 PM • | Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: Chinese robot vacuum maker Roborock unveils the Saros Rover, a concept robot vacuum cleaner with two wheel-legs for climbing stairs, as robotics dominates CES |
| 11:50 AM • | Zachary Skidmore / DatacenterDynamics: Commonwealth Fusion Systems teams up with Nvidia and Siemens to build an AI digital twin of its SPARC fusion reactor, accelerating its push to commercial fusion |
| 11:30 AM • | Dan Rys / Billboard: UMG announces a partnership with Nvidia “to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation, and engagement”, centered on Nvidia's Music Flamingo model |
| 11:15 AM • | Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: Marvell says it will acquire networking equipment provider XConn for ~$540M to expand its networking portfolio; the deal is expected to close in early 2026 |
| 10:55 AM • | Madison McLauchlan / BetaKit: Vancouver-based quantum computing startup Photonic raised CA$180M led by Planet First Partners, bringing its total funding to CA$375M |
| 10:40 AM • | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Meta unveils teleprompter and EMG handwriting features for Meta Ray-Ban Display and expands Pedestrian Navigation for the glasses to four new US cities |
| 10:30 AM • | The Information: LMArena, which runs leaderboards that rank AI models based on their performance, raised a $150M Series A led by Felicis and UC Investments at a $1.7B valuation |
| 9:35 AM • | Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: Razer plans to invest $600M+ in AI over “the next couple of years”, as the gaming peripherals maker unveils AI products like headphones with built-in cameras |
| 9:25 AM • | Daniel Cooper / Engadget: Ring revamps its home sensors, including door, window, and break glass sensors, using the Amazon Sidewalk protocol, and expands the protocol outside of the US |
| 9:15 AM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: American Airlines partners with AT&T to add free, high-speed satellite-based Wi-Fi across its entire fleet, with a target spring 2026 completion date |
| 8:30 AM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Accenture acquires UK-based AI startup Faculty, which works with the UK government, for an undisclosed sum; Faculty CEO Marc Warner will become Accenture's CTO |
| 7:15 AM • | Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta and Garmin demo using the Meta Ray-Ban Display's neural band inside a car to control its infotainment system, as part of Garmin's Unified Cabin concept |
| 7:11 AM • | Steve Dent / Engadget: Meta says it is pausing the release of its Ray-Ban Display glasses to the UK, France, Italy, and Canada due to “unprecedented demand and limited inventory” |
| 6:40 AM • | Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal: German car parts supplier Bosch plans to invest €2.5B+ in AI by the end of 2027 and unveils AI-based driver-assist systems with features like automatic parking |
| 6:15 AM • | Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: HP unveils the Eliteboard G1a, a mini desktop PC in the form of a keyboard, powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series chip, set to launch in March; pricing is TBC |
| 6:00 AM • | Madeline Ricchiuto / IGN: Intel unveils the Arc B390 integrated GPU, offering improved gaming performance, and says it will power gaming handhelds built by MSI, Acer, Microsoft, and more |
| 5:40 AM • | Reuters: Singapore-based data center operator DayOne raised a $2B+ Series C led by Coatue to build hyperscale campuses in Lahti and Kouvola, Finland, and elsewhere |
| 3:50 AM • | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Even if AI could take over every job, humans will invent new work for themselves, because we value human effort and connection, not just output |
| 2:05 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for select Linux distributions and Amazon Fire TV devices, available in early 2026 |
| 1:50 AM • | Reuters: AMD says the Instinct MI500 AI chips are coming in 2027, with up to 1,000x the AI performance of the MI300X, and unveils the MI440X for enterprise deployments |
| 1:20 AM • | Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: AMD unveils its Ryzen AI 400 Series for AI PCs, with up to 12 Zen 5 CPU cores and 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, built with TSMC's N4X node, available in late Q1 2026 |
| 1:10 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia rolls out DLSS 4.5 with a second-generation Super Resolution transformer model for RTX GPUs and a 6x Multi Frame Generation mode for its RTX 50 series |
| 12:50 AM • | Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: Analysts expect Samsung's Q4 operating profit to jump 160% YoY to ~$11.7B, driven by a severe global memory chip shortage boosting prices amid booming AI demand |
| 12:40 AM • | Financial Times: 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 |
| 11:15 PM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: 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 |
| 11:00 PM • | Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: AMD unveils new AI PC processors for general use and gaming at CES |
| 10:45 PM • | Lauren Goode / Wired: Jensen Huang says Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips are in “full production”; Nvidia says Rubin can train some LLMs using roughly one-fourth the chips Blackwell needs |
| 9:40 PM • | Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: 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 |
| 9:20 PM • | Nikkei Asia: 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 |
| 9:05 PM • | Niki Tonsky: Apple's macOS Tahoe adds icons to every menu item, resulting in menus that are hard to use and go against the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 |
| 8:40 PM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: 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 |
| 8:30 PM • | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: X faces fresh probes in Europe, India, and Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children; the UK's Ofcom says it has requested info from X |
| 7:45 PM • | Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: 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 |
| 7:00 PM • | Will Knight / Wired: Boston Dynamics partners with Google DeepMind to deploy a Gemini Robotics model on its robots, boosting their ability to navigate, manipulate objects, and more |
| 6:50 PM • | Michael Justin Allen Sexton / PCMag: Intel details its 2nm 18A-process Panther Lake chips, showing major performance gains; Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3-based laptops will debut on January 27 |
| 6:30 PM • | Rich Woods / XDA Developers: Dell revives the XPS brand with new XPS 14 and 16 laptops, offering new designs, Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips, and tandem OLED screens, but no dedicated GPUs |
| 6:15 PM • | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Nvidia launches Vera Rubin, saying the platform uses extreme codesign across six chips “to slash training time and inference token costs” compared to Blackwell |
| 5:25 PM • | Hyonhee Shin / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 4:00 PM • | Katie Teague / Engadget: 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 |
| 3:25 PM • | Jeremy White / Wired: 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 |
| 2:25 PM • | Elissa Welle / The Verge: A viral Reddit post by a purported developer alleging that a “major food delivery app” exploits drivers appears AI-generated; Uber and DoorDash deny the claims |
| 2:00 PM • | The Information: Sources: Nvidia has struggled to monetize its Omniverse software and the company shuttered its Omniverse Cloud service in August 2025 due to a lack of demand |
| 1:30 PM • | Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: Why Claude Code is much more than a coding agent: it is a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything a user can on a computer, with impressive results |
| 12:15 PM • | Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon X2 Plus chips for PCs, available in 10-core and 6-core variants, manufactured on TSMC's N3P node using Qualcomm's Oryon architecture |
| 10:20 AM • | Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Amazon launches Alexa+ in early access for all users via a new Alexa.com web interface, after launching on Echo, and lets users upload docs, emails, and images |
| 10:10 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon unveils a Fire TV UI redesign with rounded corners, 20 app slots, and Alexa+ built in, and launches a $899+ Ember Artline TV series with colorful frames |
| 9:40 AM • | Allison Johnson / The Verge: TCL unveils the €339 70 Pro phone, with a 6.9" NXTPaper 4.0 display and a paper-like textured finish, and the $549 Note A1 NXTPaper, an 11.5" Remarkable rival |
| 9:25 AM • | Katie Collins / CNET: Qualcomm unveils the Dragonwing IQ10 Series, a full-stack robotics architecture integrating hardware, software, and AI for industrial and consumer humanoids |
| 9:15 AM • | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Lyte, founded by ex-Apple Face ID engineers, emerges from stealth and raised ~$107M to develop tech to help robots see better and move more safely in the world |
| 9:05 AM • | Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Google plans to add Nano Banana and Veo support into Gemini on Google TV, letting users generate AI videos, modify family photos, and more, first on TCL TVs |
| 7:20 AM • | Megan Morrone / Axios: OpenAI says that 40M+ Americans use ChatGPT daily for health info, per an analysis of anonymized interactions and a survey, seeing it as a health care “ally” |
| 7:00 AM • | Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: African fintech Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open banking startup Mono, sources say in an all-stock deal valued at $25M to $40M; Mono raised ~$17.5M since 2020 |
| 6:45 AM • | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Sources: Alibaba's Amap will soon launch an AI tool that lets restaurants render 3D images by uploading videos or photos, in an effort to compete with Meituan |
| 6:30 AM • | Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: Taiwanese prosecutors file additional indictments against Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit and three other defendants over the alleged theft of TSMC's trade secrets |
| 6:15 AM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: CES 2026: self-driving truck company Kodiak partners with Bosch to develop a hardware and software system to turn standard semi-trucks into autonomous vehicles |
| 5:55 AM • | Dave Sebastian / Bloomberg: Sources: Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax plans to price its Hong Kong IPO at ~$21, the top of its range, and stop taking orders a day earlier than expected |
| 5:45 AM • | Reuters: Foxconn reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$82.7B, vs. ~$77B est., and record December revenue, up 32% YoY to ~$27.5B, driven by AI, cloud, and networking demand |
| 5:20 AM • | Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: Chinese automotive chipmaker Black Sesame says its Huashan A2000 passed the US Commerce and Defense Departments' “relevant reviews”, enabling a global rollout |
| 5:05 AM • | Wall Street Journal: A profile of Max Tegmark, the physicist pushing to halt AGI development, who was subpoenaed by OpenAI over the Future of Life Institute's past ties to Elon Musk |
| 4:50 AM • | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Samsung updates its TVs to add new AI features, including a Sound Controller feature that independently adjusts the volume of dialogue, music, or sound effects |
| 4:35 AM • | New York Times: A Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180K+ CT scans to help doctors detect ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its November 2024 rollout |
| 4:00 AM • | Satya Nadella / sn scratchpad: Satya Nadella says the tech industry needs to move past “slop vs sophistication” arguments and view AI “as a scaffolding for human potential vs a substitute” |
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