Narwal adds AI to its vacuum cleaners to monitor pets and find jewelry
Narwal’s new robo vacuum cleaner switches to quiet mode near a baby’s crib.
The Download: an AI agent’s hit piece, and preventing lightning
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Online harassment is entering its AI era Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library he helps manage. Then things…
AMD unveils new AI PC processors for general use and gaming at CES
AMD announced the latest version of its AI-powered PC chips designed for a variety of tasks from gaming to content creation and multitasking.
Insight Partners sued by former vice president Kate Lowry
Insight Partners sued by former vice president Kate Lowry.
Microsoft’s Nadella wants us to stop thinking of AI as ‘slop’
Nadella wants us to think of AI as a human helper instead of a slop-generating job killer. New data for 2026 indicates he could be right.
This is Uber’s new robotaxi from Lucid and Nuro
The production-intent version, unveiled at CES 2026 on Monday, will be an exceptionally roomy entry into the growing robotaxi market later this year.
Nvidia launches powerful new Rubin chip architecture
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang officially launched the company’s new Rubin computing architecture, which he described as the state of the art in AI computing.
Boston Dynamics’s next-gen humanoid robot will have Google DeepMind DNA
Google’s AI research lab is working with Boston Dynamics to make Atlas act more like a human.
LEGO SMART Bricks introduce a new way to build — and they don’t require screens
LEGO developed a custom ASIC chip that allows its new SMART Bricks to pick up on signals from surrounding SMART Tags that dictate how it should make sounds or light up.
Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to ‘think like a human’
Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo at CES 2026, which includes a reasoning vision language action model that allows an autonomous vehicle to think more like a human and provide chain-of-thought reasoning.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.