January 06, 2026

Insight Partners sued by former vice president Kate Lowry: Insight Partners sued by former vice president Kate Lowry. Read More

Nvidia launches powerful new Rubin chip architecture: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang officially launched the company's new Rubin computing architecture, which he described as the state of the art in AI computing. Read More

This is Uber's new robotaxi from Lucid and Nuro: The production-intent version, unveiled at CES 2026 on Monday, will be an exceptionally roomy entry into the growing robotaxi market later this year. Read More

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Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference: A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany. Read More

Lego Smart Bricks introduce a new way to build -- and they don't require screens: Lego developed a custom ASIC chip that allows its new Ssmart Bricks to pick up on signals from surrounding Smart Tags that dictate how it should make sounds or light up. Read More

Meta pauses international expansion of its Ray-Ban Display glasses: Meta had originally planned to launch the glasses in France, Italy, Canada, and the U.K. in early 2026. Read More

Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to 'think like a human': Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo at CES 2026, which includes a reasoning vision language action model that allows an autonomous vehicle to think more like a human and provide chain-of-thought reasoning. Read More

Amazon's Ring doorbells get fire alerts, an app store and new sensors: The new Ring Sensors can detect motion, openings, glass breakage, and smoke, and can also monitor carbon monoxide levels, leaks, temperature changes, and air quality. Read More

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Kindred talks home-swapping platform for travelers, Chef Robotics introduces AI into commercial kitchens, and Character.AI addresses chatbot safety with teens.

Microsoft's Nadella wants us to stop thinking of AI as 'slop': Nadella wants us to think of AI as a human helper instead of a slop-generating job killer. New data for 2026 indicates he could be right. Read More

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