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Commonwealth Fusion Systems installs reactor magnet, lands deal with Nvidia

The fusion power frontrunner said that construction on its Sparc reactor was proceeding as planned. Meanwhile, it’s building a digital twin to help dial it in.

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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.

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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.

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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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Insight Partners sued by former vice president Kate Lowry

Insight Partners sued by former vice president Kate Lowry.

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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 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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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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