AMD unveils Ryzen AI 400: Can Gorgon Point sustain AMD’s lead?
TL;DR At CES 2026 AMD announced the Ryzen AI 400 laptop family, an incremental follow-up to the Ryzen AI 300…
AMD trims Strix Halo lineup with Ryzen AI Max Plus chips for handhelds
TL;DR AMD introduced two lower-tier Ryzen AI Max Plus (Strix Halo) processors designed for gaming portables, keeping the same high-end…
Scientific production in the era of large language models — PDF release
TL;DR A PDF titled "Scientific production in the era of large language models" was posted on gwern.net on 2026-01-05. The…
Strange.website: Poetic, Uneasy Reflections on Websites, AI and Dark UX
TL;DR Strange.website publishes short, surreal prose pieces that interrogate modern web culture, artificial intelligence and attention-harvesting design. The site’s dated…
Nvidia aims to be the Android of generalist robotics platform
TL;DR At CES 2026 Nvidia unveiled a full robotics stack—foundation models, simulation tools, and on-device hardware—targeting generalist robots that can…
Uber, Lucid and Nuro unveil production-ready robotaxi at CES 2026
TL;DR Uber, Lucid Motors and Nuro showed a production-intent robotaxi at CES 2026 built on the Lucid Gravity SUV. The…
Satya Nadella urges seeing AI as scaffolding, not ‘slop’ or job killer
TL;DR Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged people to stop dismissing AI-generated work as 'slop' and to view AI as a…
Nvidia details Vera Rubin CPU and GPU architecture and NVL72 at CES
TL;DR At CES Nvidia provided an early look at its Vera Rubin CPU and GPU platform, including NVL72 rack refinements,…
Nvidia says DGX Spark performance has more than doubled since launch
TL;DR Nvidia announced a software update at CES that it says yields an average 2.5x performance uplift for the DGX…
Intel launches Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3, first chips on 18A
TL;DR Intel has introduced Panther Lake as the Core Ultra Series 3, the company’s first processors using its 18A node,…