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Monday, March 09 2026 - Claude 365

• Anthropic is suing the Department of Defense (The Verge)
• Microsoft announces Copilot Cowork with help from Anthropic — a cloud-powered AI agent that works across M365 apps (VentureBeat)
• Nscale Raises $2 Billion and Adds Sandberg, Clegg to Board (Bloomberg)
• Iran War Imperils $300 Billion in Gulf AI Spending (The Information)
• When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry” (HBR)

Friday, March 06 2026 - Silicon Valley Circling The Wagons Around Anthropic?

• Anthropic says it will challenge Defense Department’s supply chain risk designation in court (Engadget)
• Anthropic CEO apologizes for lashing out at Trump as he gears up for court battle with Pentagon (NYPost)
• OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model is a big step toward autonomous agents (The Verge)
• Oracle Plans Thousands of Job Cuts in Face of AI Cash Crunch (Bloomberg)
• SoftBank Seeks Record Loan of Up to $40 Billion for OpenAI Stake (Bloomberg)
• Anthropic launches AI job destruction detector (Axios)
• Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence (Anthropic)

Thursday, March 05 2026 - Dr. ChatGPT Isn’t Quite There Yet

• Google Revamps Android App Stores to Resolve Antitrust Claims (Bloomberg)
• Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google until 2032 (The Verge)
• Google’s AI-powered workspace is now available to more users in Search (The Verge)
• OpenAI Tops $25 Billion in Annualized Revenue as Anthropic Narrows Gap (The Information)
• ChatGPT Health ‘under-triaged’ half of medical emergencies in a new study (NBC News)
• Nintendo Switch 2 Users Face Storage Woes as Memory Crisis Bites (Bloomberg)
• I can’t believe it: Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo just lit a monstrous fire under the Windows laptop market — Microsoft better be panicking (Windows Central)

Wednesday, March 04 2026 - The MacBook Neo

• Apple announces $599 MacBook Neo running A18 Pro chip — budget laptop features 16-hour battery and comes in fun colors (Tom’s Hardware)
• MacBook Neo hands-on: Apple’s $599 laptop feels shockingly great (Engadget)
• Anthropic’s Claude hits No. 1 on Apple’s top free apps list after Pentagon rejection (CNBC)
• Exclusive: Anthropic investors push to de-escalate Pentagon clash over AI safeguards, sources say (Reuters)
• Polymarket shelves nuclear detonation markets after outcry (CoinDesk)
• Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC (Bloomberg)
• A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals (Wired)

Tuesday, March 03 2026 - Anyone Want To Give Me A Betting Market Tip?

• Apple announces M5 MacBook Air with 2x storage, $1099 starting price (9to5Mac)
• Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips With New Fusion Architecture (MacRumors)
• Apple unveils M5 Pro and M5 Max chips with new ‘Fusion Architecture’ (TechCrunch)
• Polymarket Iran Bets Hit $529 Million as New Wallets Win Big (Bloomberg)
• Google unveils cost-efficient AI model Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (SeekingAlpha)
• Audible Launches Cheaper Plan to Appeal to Streaming Audiences (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI makes changes to ‘opportunistic and sloppy’ Pentagon deal (FT)

Monday, March 02 2026 - The Week Of Apple Updates

• Apple announces the iPhone 17E (The Verge)
• Apple speeds up the iPad Air with an M4 upgrade, starting at $599 (TechCrunch)
• Amazon’s cloud unit reports fire after objects hit UAE data center (Reuters)
• US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material (Reuters)
• Anthropic’s Claude can now absorb your past conversations with other AI chatbots (Engadget)
• Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon (The Atlantic)

Friday, February 27 2026 - The Friday Of All The Headlines

• OpenAI announces $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank (CNBC)
• Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic’s red lines in Pentagon fight (Axios)
• Employees at Google and OpenAI support Anthropic’s Pentagon stand in open letter (TechCrunch)
• Block shares soar as much as 24% as company slashes workforce by nearly half (CNBC)
• Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount’s offer is deemed superior (CNBC)

Thursday, February 26 2026 - An AI Has A Substack

• Google’s Nano Banana 2 brings advanced AI image tools to free users (The Verge)
• Nvidia Shares Slide After Sales Forecast Underwhelms Investors (Bloomberg)
• Salesforce chief dismisses ‘SaaS-pocalypse’ fears of AI overtaking business software (FT)
• New York sues video game developer Valve, says its ‘loot boxes’ are gambling (Reuters)
• Google and Samsung just launched the AI features Apple couldn’t with Siri (The Verge)
• Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API ‘in one week’ with AI (The Register)
• Anthropic gives its retired Claude AI a Substack (The Verge)

Wednesday, February 25 2026 - Galaxy Unpacked

• I tried the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra and need the Privacy Display feature on my iPhone ASAP (ZDNet)
• Gemini is getting its first agentic capabilities (The Verge)
• Exclusive: Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards (Axios)
• Anthropic digs in heels in dispute with Pentagon, source says (Axios)
• Anthropic just released a mobile version of Claude Code called Remote Control (VentureBeat)
• Payments Processor Stripe Expresses Interest in PayPal (Bloomberg)
• AI Models Deployed Nuclear Weapons in 95% of War Game Simulations, Study Finds (Implicator.ai)

Tuesday, February 24 2026 - The AI Essays Are Moving Markets

• Software Stocks Are Having Another Ugly Day (WSJ)
• Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude (WSJ)
• Meta and AMD Agree to AI Chips Deal Worth More Than $100 Billion (WSJ)
• Exclusive: ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (Reuters)
• Putting Samsung’s $2,899 TriFold To the Test as a Phone, Tablet and Laptop (Bloomberg)

Monday, February 23 2026 - Sam Says Some Things

• Sam Altman Says Companies Are ‘AI Washing’ Layoffs (Gizmodo)
• People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much. (NYTimes)
• Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too (TechCrunch)
• Half the AI Agent Market Is One Category. The Rest Is Wide Open. (Garry’s List)
• Google Restricts AI Ultra Subscribers Over OpenClaw OAuth, Days After Anthropic Ban (Implicator.ai)
• THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS (Citrini Research)

Friday, February 20 2026 - When AI Breaks Things

• Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot (FT)
• Ex-Googlers Charged With Stealing Phone Processor Secrets (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI Plans to Price Smart Speaker at $200 to $300, as AI Device Team Takes Shape (The Information)
• Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online (MIT Technology Review)
• Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift (Wired)
• Uber, Latest Victim of Disruption Panic, Still Has Role in Robotaxis (WSJ)

Thursday, February 19 2026 - A Canticle For Leibowitz

• Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro for ‘complex problem-solving’ (9to5Google)
• Mark Zuckerberg said he reached out to Apple CEO Tim Cook to discuss ‘wellbeing of teens and kids’ (CNBC)
• Amazon Dethrones Walmart as World’s Biggest Company by Sales (Bloomberg)
• Apple Ramps Up Work on Glasses, Pendant, and Camera AirPods for AI Era (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft’s Glass Chip Holds Terabytes of Data for 10,000 Years (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, February 18 2026 - New Pixel

• The Pixel 10A is a little too much like last year’s phone (The Verge)
• Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6 (TechCrunch)
• Google’s AI music maker is coming to the Gemini app (The Verge)
• Adani bets $100 billion on data centres to power India’s AI ambitions (Reuters)
• Nvidia secures multibillion-dollar Meta deal as it battles chip rivals (FT)
• Global game content sales rose 5.3% to $195.6bn in 2025 (GamesIndustry.biz)

Tuesday, February 17 2026 - AI Gettin’ SaaS-y

• EU privacy watchdog opens probe into Elon Musk’s X over sexualised AI images (FT)
• Valve’s Steam Deck OLED will be ‘intermittently’ out of stock because of the RAM crisis (The Verge)
• Raspberry Pi soars 40% as CEO buys stock, AI chatter builds (Reuters)
• Meta-owned Manus launches AI agents on Telegram (SiliconRepublic)
• Airbnb expands its “Reserve Now, Pay Later” globally (TechCrunch)
• 10 Years Building Vertical Software: My Perspective on the Selloff (@nicbstme)

Monday, February 16 2026 - OpenAI Grabs OpenClaw’s Creator

• OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI (The Verge)
• Peter Steinberger Chose OpenAI. The Code Was Never the Point. (Implicator.AI)
• Rampant AI Demand for Memory Is Fueling a Growing Chip Crisis (Bloomberg)
• ByteDance to curb AI video app after Disney legal threat (BBC)
• Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute (Axios)
• The hidden infrastructure crisis in mortgage and real estate finance that only tokenization can solve (Crypto.news)

Friday, February 13 2026 - Anthropic Makes Its Move

• Anthropic closes $30 billion funding round as cash keeps flowing into top AI startups (CNBC)
• Enterprise AI startup Cohere tops revenue target as momentum builds to IPO: Investor memo (CNBC)
• Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses (NYTimes)
• Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash (The Verge)

Thursday, February 12 2026 - Pour Moi, C’est Le Déluge

• Chinese AI startup Zhipu releases new flagship model GLM-5 (Reuters)
• Musk announces xAI re-org following co-founder departures, SpaceX merger (CNBC)
• Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon (NYTimes)
• Google says attackers used 100,000+ prompts to try to clone AI chatbot Gemini (NBCNews)
• Waymo begins deploying next-gen Ojai robotaxis to extend its U.S. lead (CNBC)
• The AI Vampire (Steve Yegge)

Wednesday, February 11 2026 - The “Covid Moment” For AI?

• ⁠Something Big Is Happening⁠ (Matt Shumer)
• ⁠OpenAI Executive Who Opposed ‘Adult Mode’ Fired for Sexual Discrimination⁠ (WSJ)
• ⁠TikTok launches an opt-in Local Feed in the US leveraging users’ precise location⁠ (TechCrunch)
• ⁠T-Mobile will live translate regular phone calls without an app⁠ (The Verge)

Tuesday, February 10 2026 - AI: Better, Faster, Stronger… Or Just Working Harder?

• OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT (Mashable)
• Spotify Shares Surge After Adding Record Number of New Users (Bloomberg)
• Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance Offer AI Red Packets to Lure Users (Bloomberg)
• New Mexico lawsuit accuses Meta of failing to protect children from sexual exploitation online (AP)
• AI Doesn’t Reduce Work, It Intensifies It (HBR)

Monday, February 09 2026 - The AI Superbowl

• Sam Altman touts ChatGPT’s reaccelerating growth to employees as OpenAI closes in on $100 billion funding (CNBC)
• How Capex Ramp Up Will Squeeze Google, Amazon, Meta (The Information)
• Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter (Sherwood)
• A New AI Video Model From ByteDance is Making Waves (PetaPixel)
• Claude Code is the Inflection Point (SemiAnalysis)
• Crypto.com CEO unveils new AI agents to millions during Super Bowl (CoinTelegraph)
• From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads (TechCrunch)

Friday, February 06 2026 - Piracy Is Back!

• Anthropic Releases New Model That’s Adept at Financial Research (Bloomberg)
• Anthropic debuts new model with hopes to corner the market beyond coding (The Verge)
• Big Tech to Spend $650 Billion This Year as AI Race Intensifies (Bloomberg)
• Europe Accuses TikTok of ‘Addictive Design’ and Pushes for Change (NYTimes)
• Bitcoin Falls Below $70,000 as Market Faces a ‘Crisis of Faith’ (Bloomberg)

Thursday, February 05 2026 - Is Software Eating The World Being Eaten By AI?

• Google set to double AI spending to $185bn after strong earnings (FT)
• OpenAI Frontier is a single platform to control your AI agents (The Verge)
• Anthropic says ‘Claude will remain ad-free,’ unlike ChatGPT (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s Pivotal AI Product Is Running Into Big Problems (WSJ)
• New Data: OpenAI’s Lead Is Contracting as AI Competition Intensifies (Big Technology)
• Threat of New AI Tools Wipes $300 Billion Off Software and Data Stocks (WSJ)
• AI Won’t Kill the Software Business, Just Its Growth Story (WSJ)

Tuesday, February 03 2026 - SpaceX Acquires xAI

• Musk’s SpaceX Combines With xAI at $1.25 Trillion Valuation (Bloomberg)
• SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it (Ars Technica)
• OpenAI’s Codex just got its own Mac app - and anyone can try it for free now (ZDNet)
• Exclusive: OpenAI is unsatisfied with some Nvidia chips and looking for alternatives, sources say (Reuters)
• Waymo Raises $16 Billion From Alphabet and Others to Expand (Bloomberg)

Monday, February 02 2026 - Is Jensen Worried About OpenAI?

• The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice (WSJ)
• Nvidia CEO Says New OpenAI Investment May Be Largest Yet (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s Historic Quarter Doesn’t Change the Need for AI Reckoning (Bloomberg)
• SpaceX seeks FCC nod for solar-powered satellite data centers for AI (Reuters)
• How often do AI chatbots lead users down a harmful path? (Ars Technica)
• Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now (Simon Willison)

Friday, January 30 2026 - Elon Might Just Merge All His Companies Into One

• Apple buys Israeli start-up Q.AI for close to $2bn in race to build AI devices (FT)
• OpenAI Plans Fourth-Quarter IPO in Race to Beat Anthropic to Market (WSJ)
• SpaceX in merger talks with other Musk companies ahead of IPO (Reuters)
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX Said to Consider Merger With Tesla or xAI (Bloomberg)
• Google’s AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs (The Verge)
• Moltbot Gets Another New Name, OpenClaw, And Triggers Security Fears And Scams (Forbes)

Thursday, January 29 2026 - Clawdbot Is Now Moltbot

• Zuckerberg teases agentic commerce tools and major AI rollout in 2026 (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft stock drops 7% on slowing cloud growth, light margin guidance (CNBC)
• Tesla scraps models in pivot to AI as annual revenue falls for first time (FT)
• Dow to Cut 4,500 Employees in AI Overhaul (WSJ)
• Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (TechCrunch)
• Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama (TechCrunch)
• Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can’t slough off security issues (The Register)

Wednesday, January 28 2026 - The Amazon Layoffs

• Amazon says it is laying off 16,000 employees (TechCrunch)
• Tether Is Shaking Up the Gold Market With Massive Metal Hoard (Bloomberg)
• Samsung confirms Galaxy S26’s insane ‘pixel level’ privacy feature (SamMobile)
• SpaceX weighs June IPO timed to planetary alignment and Elon Musk’s birthday (FT)
• Anthropic doubles VC fundraising to $20bn on surging investor demand (FT)
• Anthropic Hikes 2026 Revenue Forecast 20% but Delays When It Will Go Cash Flow Positive (The Information)
• Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives (The Verge)

Tuesday, January 27 2026 - Is TikTok’s Algo Changing?

• China’s Moonshot Unveils AI Model Ahead of DeepSeek Release (Bloomberg)
• Pinterest laying off 15% of workforce in push toward AI roles and teams (CNBC)
• TikTok says a power outage caused a ‘cascading systems failure’ that messed up its algorithm (BusinessInsider)
• Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp (TechCrunch)
• Uber launches an ‘AV Labs’ division to gather driving data for robotaxi partners (TechCrunch)
• Thread On The Amodei Essay

Monday, January 26 2026 - Now We Have The Clawdbot

• TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes (Wired)
• Apple launches AirTag 2 with improved range, louder speaker, more (9to5Mac)
• EU opens formal probe into Musk’s xAI over Grok deepfakes (FT)
• Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal (The Guardian)
• Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw (Forbes)
• Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like (MacStories)

Friday, January 23 2026 - MAYBE TikTok Is A Done Deal (This Time?)

• Trump’s TikTok deal is a gift to China (FT)
• Exclusive: Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week, sources say (Reuters)
• Epic and Google have a secret $800 million Unreal Engine and services deal (The Verge)
• Apple Expands Hardware Chief’s Role (Bloomberg)
• Capital One Strikes $5.15 Billion Deal for Fintech Brex (WSJ)

Thursday, January 22 2026 - Apple’s Wearable AI Pin

• Apple Developing AI Wearable Pin (The Information)
• Anthropic rewrites Claude’s guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have ‘some kind of consciousness or moral status’ (Fortune)
• Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches satellite internet service to rival SpaceX, Amazon (CNBC)
• South Korean leader celebrates ‘Kospi 5,000’ moment as stock market soars (FT)
• CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story. (WSJ)

Wednesday, January 21 2026 - Elon Says: IPO NOW!

• Anthropic’s CEO stuns Davos with Nvidia criticism (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT (Reuters)
• OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch (The Information)
• Netflix Is Testing Vertical Video Features For Mobile (THR)
• YouTubers will be able to make Shorts with their own AI likenesses (The Verge)
• YouTube CEO Neal Mohan’s Big Ideas for 2026: More Superstar Creators and Transparency, Less AI Slop (THR)
• Why Elon Musk Is Racing to Take SpaceX Public (WSJ)

Tuesday, January 20 2026 - The “Assistant Axis”

• Netflix revises its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery. Now, it’s all cash (CNN)
• Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL (The Verge)
• An A.I. Start-Up Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them (NYTimes)
• Most of Instagram’s ads ran on Reels in 2025, data shows (CNBC)
• Anthropic Uncovers AI Personality Crisis as Models Secretly Switch Identities (eWeek)

Monday, January 19 2026 - Ads Come To ChatGPT

• OpenAI brings advertising to ChatGPT in push for new revenue (FT)
• OpenAI’s Revenue Soars Past $20 Billion After 233% Jump—But Explosive Growth Comes With Massive Compute Costs And A $17 Billion Burn Rate (Benzinga)
• Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away (WSJ)
• ‘No Reasons to Own’: Software Stocks Sink on Fear of New AI Tool (Bloomberg)
• Musk Seeks Up to $134 Billion Damages From OpenAI, Microsoft (Bloomberg)
• Thinking Machines Exodus Tests Investor Appetite for a $50 Billion Valuation (The Information)
• There’s a Hit Movie Set Deep Inside an AI Lab—and It Will Give You Goosebumps (WSJ)

Thursday, January 15 2026 - Ain’t No Drama Like AI Industry Drama

• Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI (Wired)
• Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says (Ars Technica)
• TSMC delivers another record quarter as profit jumps 35% fueled by robust AI chip demand (CNBC)
• Ireland Is Trying to Get Back on the Data Center Bandwagon (Bloomberg)
• Spotify Raises Premium Subscription Prices in US to $13 a Month (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, January 14 2026 - NOT Alright, Alright, Alright

• Exclusive: China’s customs agents told Nvidia’s H200 chips are not permitted, sources say (Reuters)
• Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts (The Verge)
• Tesla Driver-Assist System FSD Will Switch to Subscription-Only, Musk Says (Bloomberg)
• Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Himself to Fight AI Misuse (WSJ)
• Microsoft’s Spending on Anthropic AI Is on Pace to Hit $500 Million (The Information)
• Apple Struggling With Key Material Shortage as AI Chips Drain Supply (MacRumors)
• McKinsey challenges graduates to use AI chatbot in recruitment overhaul (FT)

Tuesday, January 13 2026 - Microsoft Pledges To Pay Its Own Way

• Microsoft responds to AI data center revolt, vowing to cover full power costs and reject local tax breaks (GeekWire)
• Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices (Bloomberg)
• Apple debuts ‘Apple Creator Studio’ subscription, here’s what you get (9to5Mac)
• Google Gemini Partnership With Apple Will Go Beyond Siri Revamp (MacRumors)
• Anthropic’s new Cowork tool offers Claude Code without the code (TechCrunch)

Monday, January 12 2026 - Siri Goes With Gemini

• Apple picks Google’s Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year (CNBC)
• UK’s Ofcom investigates X over Grok’s sexualised AI images of women and children (FT)
• Anthropic expands into healthcare a week after OpenAI launched a similar product (Business Insider)
• Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI (Sherwood News)
• AI’s Memorization Crisis (The Atlantic)

Friday, January 09 2026 - Grok Still Groking

• No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature (The Verge)
• Musk’s xAI Burns Almost $8 Billion, Reveals Optimus Plan (Bloomberg)
• Chinese Firms Dominated Global Humanoid Robot Shipments in 2025 (Bloomberg)
• DeepSeek To Release Next Flagship AI Model With Strong Coding Ability (The Information)
• Andreessen Horowitz raises $15 billion for new funds (Axios)
• A16z’s $15 Billion Fund Vacuumed Up A Fifth Of Venture Dollars Raised Last Year (Forbes)

Thursday, January 08 2026 - ChatGPT Health

• Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What’s on X (Wired)
• Google is taking over your Gmail inbox with AI (The Verge)

Wednesday, January 07 2026 - CES Day 3

• Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion (NYTimes)
• Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would ‘invade’ Venezuela (FT)
• Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit? (Politico)
• The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape (Washington Post)
• Three Reasons We Can’t Get Enough of LinkedIn (WSJ)
• What surprised us the most at CES 2026 (The Verge)

Tuesday, January 06 2026 - CES Day 2

• Nvidia launches Vera Rubin AI computing platform at CES 2026 (The Verge)
• AMD shows off new higher performing AI chip at CES event (Reuters)
• I tested Nvidia’s Tesla Full Self-Driving competitor — Tesla should be worried (The Verge)
• Dell Admits It Made a Huge Mistake When It Abandoned XPS (Gizmodo)
• Robot Vacuum Maker Roborock Shows Off Stair-Climbing Model With Legs (Bloomberg)
• Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years (The Verge)

Monday, January 05 2026 - CES Day 1

• Exclusive: Samsung to double AI mobile devices to 800 million units this year (Reuters)
• Voice control opening and closing comes to Samsung’s Family Hub smart fridges (The Verge)
• Someone made a ton of money betting on Maduro’s capture (The Verge)
• SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to launch landmark IPOs (FT)
• Reddit overtakes TikTok in UK thanks to search algorithms and gen Z (The Guardian)
• How Meta’s Reels Became a $50 Billion Business (WSJ)