Meta’s $2 Billion Manus Deal Draws Uneven Reactions in Washington and Beijing
TL;DR Meta agreed to acquire AI assistant platform Manus for $2 billion, a deal U.S. authorities appear comfortable with while…
McKinsey and General Catalyst: the ‘learn once, work forever’ era is over
TL;DR At a CES 2026 All-In podcast taping, McKinsey's Bob Sternfels and General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja told host Jason Calacanis…
Windows Update Failure Likely Bricked Snapdragon Dev Kit, Owner Says
TL;DR A user reports that a Windows 11 security update (KB5068861) repeatedly failed and a later rollback left their Qualcomm…
Lenovo unveils Qira, a cross-device AI assistant for laptops and phones
TL;DR At CES, Lenovo introduced Qira, a system-level AI assistant intended to operate across Lenovo laptops and Motorola phones. The…
30B Qwen model runs in real time on a Raspberry Pi 5 using ByteShape
TL;DR ByteShape used a bitlength-learning approach (ShapeLearn) to quantize Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 so it fits and runs interactively on constrained hardware. On…
Electronic Nose System Proposed for Indoor Mold Detection and Identification
TL;DR A paper titled "Electronic Nose for Indoor Mold Detection and Identification" was posted on Wiley Online Library on Jan.…
Ring rolls out Fire Watch and new AI alerts to let home cameras track wildfires
TL;DR Ring unveiled Fire Watch at CES 2026, a feature that uses Watch Duty alerts and AI-powered analysis of eligible…
GPU-Accelerated Cuckoo Filter: Faster Queries and Deletions on CUDA
TL;DR A header-only CUDA implementation of the Cuckoo Filter provides batch insert, lookup and delete operations optimized for GPUs. Benchmarks…
Hyundai, Boston Dynamics Unveil Next‑Gen All‑Electric Atlas Robot at CES 2026
TL;DR At CES 2026, Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics presented a next-generation, all-electric version of the Atlas humanoid robot…
Snowflake integrates Google Gemini into Cortex AI for in-platform LLM access
TL;DR Snowflake has added Google’s Gemini models to its Cortex AI stack, allowing customers to run Gemini inside their Snowflake…