Ford is getting ready to put AI assistants in its cars
Jonathan M. Gitlin / arstechnica - The Blue Oval is also working on new hands-free driver assists.
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Google and Character.AI Agree To Settle Lawsuits Over Teen Suicides
BeauHD / slashdot - Google and Character.AI have agreed to settle multiple lawsuits from families alleging the chatbot encouraged self-harm and suicide among teens. "The settlements would mark the first resolutions in the wave of lawsuits against tech companies whose AI chat…
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Samsung squashes hopes that it will release its Ballie home robot
Scharon Harding / arstechnica - Six years after its CES debut, Samsung has demoted Ballie to internal use.
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Apple Inks A Deal With JPMorgan To Power Its Apple Card As Goldman Sachs Surrenders The Business At A $1 Billion Discount
Rohail Saleem / wccftech - The inevitable seems to have come to pass. Apple has reportedly inked a deal with JPMorgan to take over its Apple Card business, which is now being surrendered by Goldman Sachs at a rare $1 billion discount. Apple Card will soon be powered by JPMorgan's f…
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Anthropic Raising $10 Billion at $350 Billion Value
Kate Clark / wsj - The planned deal represents nearly a doubling of the AI startup’s valuation from four months ago.
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WhatsApp Enhances Group Chats With Three New Features
Tim Hardwick / macrumors - WhatsApp announced three new group chat features today, expanding how users can interact and add context to their role within conversations involving many participants.The Meta-owned messaging app is rolling out Member Tags, Text Stickers, and Event Remin…
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Swap Raises $100M in Series C Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Swap, a NYC-based provider of a commerce operating system, raised $100m in Series C funding. The round was co-led by DST Global and ICONIQ. The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach, as well as to invest …
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Apple Evaluating Multispectral Imaging And A 200MP Camera Sensor For Future iPhones
Rohail Saleem / wccftech - It is not just the form factor of Apple's iPhone that is slated for a major revamp come 2027. As such, the Cupertino giant is aiming for a massive overhaul of nearly every element of its iPhones as the decade progresses, including equipping its iPhones wi…
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Philips Hue 'SpatialAware' feature harmonizes all the lights in a room
Steve Dent / engadget - Philips Hue has introduced a new software feature called SpatialAware at CES 2026 designed to ensure that all the lights in a space are in harmony with each other. Available exclusively for the Hue Bridge Pro, it takes into account each light point in a r…
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Lenovo brings handheld-favorite SteamOS to the flagship Legion Go 2 — the AMD Z2 Extreme gets official SteamOS support for the first time
tomshardware - Lenovo is bringing official SteamOS support to AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor for the first time with an updated Legion Go 2.
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Lenovo’s Legion Pro Rollable Gaming Laptop Goes Ultrawide at the Press of a Key
Luke Larsen / wired - Lenovo brought a Legion gaming laptop to CES this year with a rollable OLED display that expands horizontally by six inches.
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Motorola finally has a foldable to rival the Galaxy Fold 7 and Pixel 10 Pro Fold
digitaltrends - The Motorola Razr Fold will arrive in the coming months, and crucially before the rumored iPhone Fold.The post Motorola finally has a foldable to rival the Galaxy Fold 7 and Pixel 10 Pro Fold appeared first on Digital Trends.
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Snowflake gets frosty with Google Gemini
O'Ryan Johnson / theregister - Munge that corporate data using the LLM of your choice The data platform Snowflake is putting Google's Gemini to work inside its Cortex AI, aiming to give customers access to a foundational model within the boundaries of their data environment across supp…
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xAI says it raised $20B in Series E funding
Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - 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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Roborock's Latest Robot Vacuums Do More Than Climb Stairs - They Jump
bgr - Roborock caught our eye last year when it released a robot vacuum with an arm, but at CES 2026, it's going a step further with jumping robovacs.
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CES 2026: Aqara Launches U400 Smart Lock With HomeKit and Hands-Free UWB Unlocking
Juli Clover / macrumors - Smart home company Aqara today debuted its latest smart lock, the U400. The Aqara Smart Lock U400 incorporates ultra wideband (UWB) technology for more precise location-based tracking and automated door unlocking.There are few UWB smart locks on the marke…
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How Lego designed its new interactive Smart Brick
Chris Morris / fastcompany - While the Lego Group has dipped its toes into tech waters before, the company hasn’t strayed far from its analog roots. But on Monday, the 94-year-old company unveiled a new product line that embraces the digital age, without abandoning its core business.…
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Razer's Project Madison concept chair has reactive lighting, immersive audio and multi-zone haptics
Cheyenne MacDonald / engadget - Razer is once again thinking big about what a gaming chair can do, and its concept for CES 2026 isn't just a chair but an entire multisensory experience to match whatever's happening on-screen. The concept, called Project Madison, combines reactive lighti…
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Two new uGreen NASync storage systems have on-device AI
appleinsider - Two Intel-based NAS systems, the NASync iDX6011 and iDX6011 Pro, were unveiled by Ugreen at CES 2026, bringing local AI features and faster networking to the company's NAS lineup.Ugreen iDX6011 Pro NASUgreen's new models expand the NASync lineup with high…
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Dell’s New UltraSharp Monitors Include 52″ 6K Ultra-Wide & 32″ 4K QD-OLED Options
Hassan Mujtaba / wccftech - Dell has introduced two brand new UltraSharp monitors, featuring a 52" 6K Ultra-Wide and a 32" 4K QD-OLED model for productivity. Dell UltraSharp Monitors Come In Massive 52" 6K Ultra-Wide & 32" 4K QD-OLED Options, Starting at $2899 & $2599 Respectively T…
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