When fake content goes viral, the damage has already been done, even if the post is debunked.
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Mobileye acquires humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics for $900M
Mentee Robotics was co-founded by Mobileye president Amnon Shashua.
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xAI says it raised $20B in Series E funding
Nvidia is among the many investors, but xAI has not disclosed if these investments come in the form of equity or debt.
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California lawmaker proposes a four-year ban on AI chatbots in kid’s toys
“Our children cannot be used as lab rats for Big Tech to experiment on,” Senator Steve Padilla said. He just introduced a bill to ban AI chatbots in toys until safety regulations are developed.
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The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026
From an AI panda pet to an anime girl hologram for your desk, here are the wildest products at CES 2026.
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Threads is developing in-message games
Launching in-message games would give Threads an edge over competitors like X and Bluesky, which don’t offer built-in games.
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Monday, January 5, 2026
Narwal adds AI to its vacuum cleaners to monitor pets and find jewelry
Narwal's new robo vacuum cleaner switches to quiet mode near a baby's crib.
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AMD unveils new AI PC processors for general use and gaming at CES
AMD announced the latest version of its AI-powered PC chips designed for a variety of tasks from gaming to content creation and multitasking.
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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.
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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.
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Nvidia wants to be the Android of generalist robotics
Nvidia unveiled a full-stack robotics ecosystem at CES 2026, including foundation models, simulation tools, and hardware. It wants to be the default platform for robotics.
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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.
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Boston Dynamics’s next-gen humanoid robot will have Google DeepMind DNA
Google's AI research lab is working with Boston Dynamics to make Atlas act more like a human.
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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.
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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 SMART Bricks to pick up on signals from surrounding SMART Tags that dictate how it should make sounds or light up.
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