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Jensen Huang says he isn't concerned about a billionaires tax under consideration in California, and plans to remain in Silicon Valley (Bloomberg) - 2026-01-06T15:10:00-05:00

xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding the $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training (xAI) - 2026-01-06T15:05:00-05:00

Sandisk shares jump ~23% after Jensen Huang highlighted the need for memory and storage at CES; SNDK is up 40%+ in the first three trading sessions of 2026 (Felice Maranz/Bloomberg) - 2026-01-06T14:10:02-05:00

Nvidia brings its G-Sync Pulsar tech to four monitors, which reduces motion blur by using a "rolling scan" scheme that briefly pulses the monitors' backlight (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica) - 2026-01-06T13:40:00-05:00

Buyout firm Hg agrees to acquire enterprise financial software maker OneStream in an all-cash deal valued at ~$6.4B that is set to close in H1 2026 (Bloomberg) - 2026-01-06T13:20:01-05:00

Amazon raised AWS' EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML prices by ~15% on January 3, saying the adjustment "reflects the supply/demand patterns we expect this quarter" (Corey Quinn/The Register) - 2026-01-06T13:10:00-05:00

Asus redesigns the Zenbook Duo with a new "hideaway" hinge that shrinks the gap between the laptop's two 3K 144Hz Lumina Pro OLED displays to just 8.28 mm (Sam Rutherford/Engadget) - 2026-01-06T12:55:01-05:00

Internal memo: Meta names CJ Mahoney, former Microsoft legal executive and deputy US Trade Representative during Trump's first term, as its chief legal officer (Sara Fischer/Axios) - 2026-01-06T12:30:01-05:00

Chinese robot vacuum maker Roborock unveils the Saros Rover, a concept robot vacuum with two wheel-legs to let it climb steps, as robotics dominates CES (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg) - 2026-01-06T12:20:00-05:00

Commonwealth Fusion Systems teams up with Nvidia and Siemens to build an AI digital twin of its SPARC fusion reactor, accelerating its push to commercial fusion (Zachary Skidmore/DatacenterDynamics) - 2026-01-06T11:50:01-05:00

UMG announces a partnership with Nvidia "to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation, and engagement", centered on Nvidia's Music Flamingo model (Dan Rys/Billboard) - 2026-01-06T11:30:10-05:00

Marvell says it will acquire networking equipment provider XConn for ~$540M to expand its networking portfolio; the deal is expected to close in early 2026 (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters) - 2026-01-06T11:15:00-05:00

Vancouver-based quantum computing startup Photonic raised CA$180M led by Planet First Partners, bringing its total funding to CA$375M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit) - 2026-01-06T10:55:01-05:00

Meta unveils teleprompter and EMG handwriting features for Meta Ray-Ban Display and expands Pedestrian Navigation for the glasses to four new US cities (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge) - 2026-01-06T10:40:00-05:00

LMArena, which runs leaderboards that rank AI models based on their performance, raised a $150M Series A led by Felicis and UC Investments at a $1.7B valuation (The Information) - 2026-01-06T10:30:00-05:00