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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 (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)

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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 (Zachary Skidmore/DatacenterDynamics)

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UMG announces a partnership with Nvidia "to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation, and engagement", centered on Nvidia's Music Flamingo model (Dan Rys/Billboard)

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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 (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)

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Vancouver-based quantum computing startup Photonic raised CA$180M led by Planet First Partners, bringing its total funding to CA$375M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)

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Meta unveils teleprompter and EMG handwriting features for Meta Ray-Ban Display and expands Pedestrian Navigation for the glasses to four new US cities (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

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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 (The Information)

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Razer plans to invest $600M in AI over "the next couple of years", as the gaming peripherals maker unveils new AI products like headphones with built-in cameras (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)

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Ring revamps its home sensors, including door, window, and break glass sensors built on the Amazon Sidewalk protocol, and expands the protocol internationally (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)

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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 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Accenture agrees to acquire UK AI startup Faculty, which works with the UK government, for an undisclosed sum; Faculty CEO Marc Warner will become Accenture CTO (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

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Meta and Garmin show an early demo of using Meta's wrist-based neural band inside of a car to control an infotainment system, as part of Garmin's Unified Cabin (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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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" (Steve Dent/Engadget)

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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 (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)

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HP unveils the Eliteboard G1a, a compact desktop PC in the form of a keyboard, powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series chip, set for March launch; pricing is TBC (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

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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 (Madeline Ricchiuto/IGN)

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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 (Reuters)

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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 (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

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Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for select Linux distributions and Amazon Fire TV sticks, available in early 2026 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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AMD teases its next-generation CDNA 6-based MI500 AI chips built on a 2nm node, claiming 1,000x performance gains over predecessors, launching in 2027 (Reuters)

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AMD unveils Ryzen AI 400 Series chips 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 Q1 2026 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

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Nvidia rolls out DLSS 4.5 with new 6x Multi Frame Generation for the RTX 50 series, and a second-generation Super Resolution transformer model for all RTX GPUs (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Analysts expect Samsung's Q4 operating profit to jump 160% YoY to ~$11.7B, driven by a severe global shortage of memory chips amid booming AI demand (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)

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Telegram bonds worth $500M are frozen in Russia under Western sanctions; filings: its H1 2025 revenue rose 65% YoY to $870M, driven by $300M from Toncoin deals (Financial Times)

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