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 …
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.
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
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 …
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
and it can fit in your bag Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Nvidia Unveils $3,000 Personal AI Supercomputer “Project Digits” Mastodon: Marko Karppinen / @karppinen@mastodon.online : The power consum...
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.
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
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Nvidia updates its Autonomous Game Characters with small language models, saying the NPCs can “perceive, plan, and act like human players” in games like PUBG
essentially, it seems like you can duo with an AI and ask them, using your voice, to help you find loot and even fend off opponents. — It's an interesting idea, though I'm a little skeptical — www...
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 …
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.” Bluesky: @kevinbriody , @romitmehta.com , @emanuelmaiberg , and @hypervisible X: @zamaan_qureshi ...
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) …
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) …
Nvidia unveils Mega, an “Omniverse Blueprint” for developing, testing, and optimizing physical AI and robot fleets at scale in a digital twin before deployment
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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 …
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 …
Nvidia releases Cosmos World Foundation Models, a family of world models that can generate “physics-aware” videos, on Hugging Face, GitHub, and Nvidia's API
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Jensen Huang says Nvidia trained Cosmos models for humanoids, robots, and cars on 20M hours of footage of “humans walking, hands moving, manipulating things”
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Sources: Apple plans to expand Apple News to more countries and considered building locally focused news coverage in the UK; Apple News has ~125M monthly users
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Nvidia gives select developers early access to Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX, enabling smarter autonomous machines with generative AI, via APIs supporting sensors
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
The UK plans to make it a crime to create and share sexually explicit deepfakes; the UK criminalized revenge porn in 2015, but that law doesn't cover deepfakes
Creating and sharing sexually explicit “deepfakes” will become a criminal offence in Britain, the government said on Tuesday …
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.
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 …
Meta elects new board directors: UFC CEO and outspoken Donald Trump supporter Dana White, former Microsoft executive Charlie Songhurst, and Exor CEO John Elkann
Is a Choke Button Coming Soon? Robert McGreevy / The Daily Caller : Major Trump Ally Dana White Joins Meta's Board As Zuck Sheds Left-Wing Bias Clyde Hughes / UPI : Meta names Dana White, two others t...
TikTok's sister app Lemon8 is sponsoring TikTok posts that encourage US users to migrate to Lemon8 as a TikTok ban looms; Lemon8 has TikTok account integrations
- ByteDance could be betting that regulators and app store companies are so focused on TikTok they won't pay attention to its other apps.
Trump announces a $20B investment in US data centers, saying the investor is Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani, chairman of DAMAC properties
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $20 billion new investment to build data centers across the United States.
Lenovo announces the Yoga Slim 9i, the first Windows laptop with a camera hidden under the display panel, coming in February and starting at $1,849
Lenovo is trying to streamline what a Windows laptop can look like in terms of screen real estate. One way that the company is doing …
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 …
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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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
someone came to me with “I heard it is discontinued, can you help me choosing a new laptop?” — what actually happened: they saw in the news that Windows XP was being discontinued and thought their D...
Backpack Exchange, an exchange founded by former FTX and Alameda employees, acquires FTX EU and takes responsibility for distributing FTX bankruptcy claims
- FTX EU has been acquired by Backpack Exchange following regulatory and legal approval. — Backpack EU will take responsibility …
Inworld AI, Streamlabs, and Nvidia unveil an AI assistant for streamers that can provide technical support for streams in real time and even act as a cohost
Inworld AI, Streamlabs, and Nvidia are partnering on a new AI assistant for streamers that can provide technical support for streams …
Reddit unveils Reddit Pro Trends, which allows companies to see what users are discussing about “virtually anything” on Reddit, and a new ad format for its AMAs
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Reddit unveiled new trends tools aimed at businesses and a new ad format …
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
Darragh Murphy / Tom's Guide :
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
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google :
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
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware :
Razer unveils Project Ava, an “AI gaming copilot” that helps gamers by taking thousands of pictures of their screen and telling them how to play in real time
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Toyota says its next-gen vehicles will have automated driving powered by Nvidia's Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and safety-focused operating system, DriveOS
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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
But to be fair, this guy did upload his image into their AI filtering doodad. So, y'know, those of us who eschew AI will not get randomly fucked with. [embedded post] Sam Biddle / @sambiddle.com : N...
US bitcoin miners, including Mara, Riot, and CleanSpark, used BTC's recent price surge to raise $3.7B+ via convertible notes since November 2024 to buy coins
Niamh Rowe / Financial Times :
Dutch chipmaker NXP agrees to acquire Vienna-based automotive safety software provider TTTech Auto for $625M in cash, aiming to boost its automotive operations
Toby Sterling / Reuters :
Samsung announces new Galaxy Book5 Pro and Book5 360 laptops with Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra chips, available in the US, the UK, Canada, and more in February
Umar Shakir / The Verge :
PitchBook: US startups raised $209B in 2024, up ~33% from 2023; AI startups raised $97B, the largest portion on record; VCs raised $76.1B, the lowest since 2019
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg :
The Connectivity Standards Alliance announces that Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept its Matter certification for their “Works With” smart home programs
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge :
Similarweb: US DAUs of Bluesky's mobile app grew 12% MoM in December vs. 284% MoM in November; Bluesky now has 26.44M+ total users after passing 20M in November
X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. — Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.a...
Sources: Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeted the Philippine president's office and stole sensitive data as part of a yearslong, broad espionage campaign
Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg :
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