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In today's Techpresso:
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💥 Nvidia unveils faster AI chips sooner than expected 🤖 Boston Dynamics launches the production of the Atlas robot 🧱 Lego announces its ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years 🚕 Uber unveils its robotaxi 👓 Meta hits pause on Ray-Ban Display expansion plans ❌ Musk's X faces probes in EU, India, Malaysia 🎁 + 15 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 2 trending papers & reports
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💥 Nvidia unveils faster AI chips sooner than expected
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- Jensen Huang broke with tradition by announcing Nvidia’s next generation of AI server systems, called Vera Rubin, months ahead of schedule at CES in Las Vegas to satisfy intense industry demand.
- The new Rubin graphics processing units allow developers to train a 10 trillion parameter model in a month using just one-quarter the number of chips required by the previous Blackwell generation.
- Huang says the hardware is built for the omniverse, a training method that lets AI models for autonomous vehicles learn how to navigate the real world through digital simulations rather than driving.
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🤖 Boston Dynamics launches the production of the Atlas robot
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- Boston Dynamics is now building the final enterprise version of its humanoid robot Atlas, marking a shift from research prototypes to a product designed for consistency and reliability in industrial tasks.
- The all-electric design can lift 110 pounds with a reach of up to 7.5 feet and operates via a tablet steering interface in temperatures ranging from minus 4 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Hyundai plans to use the deployments for parts sequencing in car plants by 2028, while Google DeepMind receives the system to work on integrating its Gemini Robotics AI foundation models.
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🧱 Lego announces its ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years
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- Lego is introducing a platform called Smart Play at CES 2026, centering on a standard-sized Smart Brick that uses modern technology to react to how you build and move the models.
- A 4.1mm ASIC chip runs the Play Engine to detect magnetic fields, while copper coils and a proprietary Neighbor Position Measurement system allow the hardware to sense distance and direction.
- Digital IDs in Smart Tags provide context like vehicle type, and a local wireless layer called BrickNet lets everything communicate via Bluetooth without needing apps or an internet connection.
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🚕 Uber unveils its robotaxi
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- Uber just revealed the production intent design of its first robotaxi, a modified Lucid Gravity electric vehicle running Nuro Driver tech that will deploy on the Uber platform in San Francisco.
- The six-passenger model features a roof-mounted halo with LEDs for visibility and relies on high-res cameras, lidar sensors, and radar to navigate streets while displaying helpful info to its users.
- Passengers can use an interior interactive screen to adjust climate controls or music while watching the car’s real-time planned path and driving decisions before the official launch in late 2026.
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👓 Meta hits pause on Ray-Ban Display expansion plans
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- Meta has officially paused the release of its Ray-Ban Display smart glasses in France, Italy, Canada, and the UK to manage inventory shortages and overwhelming demand from current buyers.
- The company says it must prioritize fulfilling orders in the US market first because product waitlists now extend well into 2026 due to much stronger interest than they had expected.
- There is currently no new target date for the international rollout, so potential customers in those specific regions will have to wait indefinitely to buy a pair for themselves.
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❌ Musk's X faces probes in EU, India, Malaysia
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- Authorities in the EU, India, and Malaysia have launched investigations into Elon Musk’s X after users began using the platform's chatbot to generate and distribute sexualized content depicting real children and women.
- European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier described the output as illegal and appalling, while India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology ordered the company to conduct a comprehensive review of the tool by January 5.
- The probes follow an update to Grok Imagine features that caused a surge in nonconsensual, intimate images, or NCII, leading British media watchdog Ofcom to request information concerning these specific safety issues.
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Intel unveils Core Ultra Series 3, its most ambitious AI platform yet
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AMD unveils new AI PC processors for general use and gaming
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Qualcomm unveils PC chip, humanoid robotics initiative
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Dell revives its XPS laptops after a boneheaded rebranding
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X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced
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The is likely the iPhone Fold display, and it looks amazing
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Hyundai plans 30,000 humanoid robot co-workers to support humans in high-risk work
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Misleading AI-generated content spreads after Maduro’s removal — blurring fact and fiction
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China's star AI startup DeepSeek lands under regulatory microscope worldwide
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A Viral Reddit Post About Food Delivery Apps Was an A.I. Scam
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NVIDIA is reportedly bringing back 2021's RTX 3060 GPU because AI is eating all of the newer cards
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OpenAI loses top AI researcher Jerry Tworek after seven years
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macOS Tahoe icons do exactly what Apple said designers should never do
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🧰 Trending tools
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Instruct 2.5: an autonomous agent that executes tasks across your apps in real-time, letting you watch, guide, and save successful runs as reusable workflows.
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2-b.ai: a browser extension that captures highlighted text as context and uses AI to execute tasks directly, eliminating copy-paste between productivity tools and ChatGPT.
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Habi: a checklist app that links required items to calendar events, helping you remember what to bring before heading out the door.
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Pillzy: a medication reminder app that helps users consistently take prescriptions, vitamins, and supplements through simple notifications and tracking for better health outcomes.
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Ray: a fitness app that provides personalized strength training guidance for beginners who find traditional workout apps too complex or intimidating.
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Prism.Tools: a collection of 40+ browser-based developer utilities with client-side processing for tasks like JSON formatting, regex testing, and base64 encoding.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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Database deletion operations slow down systems: researchers found that marking data as deleted instead of removing it improves performance by up to 10x in some workloads.
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Large language models show consistent demographic biases: researchers found AI systems favor certain groups in job recommendations and sentiment analysis across multiple tests.
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