For the eighth time, Warner Bros. Discovery has formally rejected a takeover bid from David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance. The board is sticking with its Netflix merger, calling Paramount’s offer risky and undervalued.
A wave of “AI fatigue” is causing a major rotation in the stock market. After a three-year, 78% run led by tech giants, money is now flowing into the other 493 companies in the S&P 500.
Google is pushing a critical January 2026 security update for Pixel phones to patch a flaw in Dolby’s DD+ decoder. At the same time, a separate 15 MB Google Play system update is causing installation problems, including black screens that require a forced restart to fix.
In a major push to commercialize fusion, Commonwealth Fusion Systems is partnering with NVIDIA and Siemens to create a high-fidelity digital twin of its SPARC demonstration machine. The collaboration, announced at CES, will use AI and industrial software to accelerate engineering and simulation. The
HP is taking a new approach to business laptops at CES 2026. The EliteBook X G2 series lets customers choose between AMD, Intel, or Snapdragon processors, all packing serious on-device AI power in bodies under 1kg.
Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time at CES. The company plans to have a product version assembling cars at a Georgia plant by 2028, aided by a renewed AI partnership with Google’s DeepMind.
A new report warns that AI adoption might backfire, increasing workloads instead of reducing them. As AI handles routine tasks, humans are left managing the AI, leading to new mental health pressures and potential burnout.
AMD is launching a new AI chip, the MI440X, designed for compact corporate data centers. CEO Lisa Su also previewed the MI500 series for 2027, promising up to 1,000x the performance of its 2023 models. The push highlights AMD’s aggressive strategy to capture more of the lucrative AI hardware market.
Nvidia just pulled the curtain back on its next-gen Vera Rubin AI platform months ahead of schedule. The announcement at CES 2026 signals a major acceleration in the AI hardware race, with Nvidia claiming massive performance leaps.
AMD is expanding its Ryzen AI Max+ lineup with two new chips that lower the CPU specs but keep the powerful 40-core GPU. This move aims to bring high-end gaming and AI performance to more affordable laptops, potentially reshaping the mid-range market in 2026.
