A couple of weeks after Merriam-Webster named“slop” as its word of the year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighed in on what to expect from AI in 2026. In his classic, intellectual style, Nadella wrote on hispersonal blogthat he wants us to stop thinking of AI as “slop” and start thinking of it as “bicycles for […]
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Nvidia released a new stack of robot foundation models, simulation tools, and edge hardware at CES 2026, moves that signal the company’s ambition to become the default platform for generalistrobotics, much as Android became the operating system for smartphones. Nvidia’s move into robotics reflects a broader industry shift as AI moves off the cloud and
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Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang officially launched the company’s new Rubin computing architecture, which he described as the state of the art in AI hardware. The new architecture is currently in production and is expected to ramp up further in the second half of the year. “Vera Rubin is designed
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AtCES 2026, Nvidia launched Alpamayo, a new family of open-source AI models, simulation tools, and datasets for training physical robots and vehicles that are designed to help usher autonomous vehicles reason through complex driving situations. “The ChatGPT moment for physical AI is here – when machines begin to understand, reason, and act in the real
CES 2026: Follow live as NVIDIA, Lego, AMD, Amazon, and more make their big reveals Kirsten Korosec and Sarah Perez Last Updated: 7 seconds ago CES 2026, the annual consumer tech conference held in Las Vegas is here. And lucky for you, we have TechCrunch editors and reporters on the ground to cover the news,
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Amazon’s AI-powered overhaul of its digital assistant,now known as Alexa+, is coming to the web. On Monday, at the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company announced the official launch of a new website, Alexa.com, which is now rolling out to all Alexa+ Early Access customers. The site will allow customers
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Google believes AI can improve the TV-watching experience, which is why it brought itsGemini AI to Google TV devicesin November. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2026) in Las Vegas, the company is now showing off a series of new Gemini features that will soon arrive on the TV, making it possible for viewers to
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When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen — it takes notes. For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic. What began as a casual sharing of his personal
Building AI more like the human brain may matter far more than flooding it with data. New research from Johns Hopkins University shows that artificial intelligence systems built with designs inspired by biology can begin to resemble human brain activity even before they are trained on any data. The study suggests that how AI is
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DoorDash seems to have confirmed a viral story about a driver using an AI-generated photo to lie about making a delivery. Asreported by Nexstar, Austin resident Byrne Hobart said he experienced this very thing, writingin a post on X: “Amazing. DoorDash driver accepted the drive, immediately marked it as delivered, and submitted an AI-generated image
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