Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and a $549 RTX 5070, available starting in January — Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today. After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs …
Toyota says its next-gen vehicles will have automated driving powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and safety-focused operating system, DriveOS (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Toyota says its next-gen vehicles will have automated driving powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and safety-focused operating system, DriveOS — Toyota announced at CES 2025 that its next-generation vehicles will have automated driving capabilities powered …
Nvidia shares Cosmos World Foundation Models, a family of world models that can generate “physics-aware” videos, available from Hugging Face and Nvidia’s API (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Nvidia shares Cosmos World Foundation Models, a family of world models that can generate “physics-aware” videos, available from Hugging Face and Nvidia’s API — Nvidia is getting into world models — AI models that take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally.
Nvidia unveils Mega, an “Omniverse Blueprint” for developing, testing, and optimizing physical AI and robot fleets at scale in a digital twin before deployment (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia unveils Mega, an “Omniverse Blueprint” for developing, testing, and optimizing physical AI and robot fleets at scale in a digital twin before deployment — Nvidia unveils Mega Omniverse blueprint for building industrial robot fleet digital twins, as part of a CES 2025 keynote speech by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Sources: China-backed hackers targeted the Philippine president’s office and stole sensitive data as part of a yearslong, broad espionage campaign (Jamie Tarabay/Bloomberg)
Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg:
Sources: China-backed hackers targeted the Philippine president’s office and stole sensitive data as part of a yearslong, broad espionage campaign — – Some stolen documents related to dispute over South China Sea — Most of the hacks took place from early 2023 to June 2024
After complaints from BBC, Apple plans an update “in the coming weeks” that will make it clearer to users when Apple Intelligence is summarizing notifications (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
After complaints from BBC, Apple plans an update “in the coming weeks” that will make it clearer to users when Apple Intelligence is summarizing notifications — Apple has said it will update, rather than pause, a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that has generated inaccurate news alerts on its latest iPhones.
Meta says it’s testing an “Imagine Yourself” feature announced in September that automatically generates AI images of a user and puts them into that user’s feed (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Meta says it’s testing an “Imagine Yourself” feature announced in September that automatically generates AI images of a user and puts them into that user’s feed — Meta AI put a Redditor into “an endless maze of mirrors” as part of a new AI feature it is testing.
Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for January 22 at 10AM PT in San Jose, where Galaxy AI updates, the Galaxy S25, and more are expected (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for January 22 at 10AM PT in San Jose, where Galaxy AI updates, the Galaxy S25, and more are expected — After plenty of leaks and rumors, we’re officially entering Samsung’s lead-up to the Galaxy S25 launch date, as the company has confirmed …
HDMI Forum unveils the HDMI 2.2 spec, with better audio sync and up to 96Gbps bandwidth for resolutions like 12K at 120Hz, some of which need an “Ultra96” cable (Darragh Murphy/Tom’s Guide)
Darragh Murphy / Tom’s Guide:
HDMI Forum unveils the HDMI 2.2 spec, with better audio sync and up to 96Gbps bandwidth for resolutions like 12K at 120Hz, some of which need an “Ultra96” cable — Plus a sneak peek at the new Ultra96 HDMI Cable — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Samsung announces new Galaxy Book5 Pro and Book5 360 laptops with Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra processors, available in the US, Canada, UK, and more in February (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Samsung announces new Galaxy Book5 Pro and Book5 360 laptops with Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra processors, available in the US, Canada, UK, and more in February — Samsung has announced new Galaxy Book 5 Pro and 360 laptops featuring the NPU-packing (but not CoPilot Plus-qualifying) …