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Amazon unveils a Fire TV UI redesign with rounded corners, 20 app slots, and Alexa+ integration, and launches $899+ Ember Artline TV series with colorful frames (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-6 Amazon

Stack Overflow Went From 200,000 Monthly Questions To Nearly Zero (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-1-6

TCL unveils the €339 70 Pro phone, with a 6.9" NXTPaper 4.0 display and a paper-like textured finish, and the $549 Note A1 NXTPaper, an 11.5" Remarkable rival (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-6

A Sam's Club membership is 50% off to start the New Year (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-6

Samsung Co-CEO Says Soaring Memory Chip Prices Will 'Inevitably' Impact Smartphone Costs (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-1-6 Samsung

Lyte, founded by ex-Apple Face ID engineers, emerges from stealth and raised ~$107M to develop tech to help robots see better and move more safely in the world (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-6 Apple Robot Face ID

Qualcomm unveils the Dragonwing IQ10 Series, a full-stack robotics architecture integrating hardware, software, and AI for industrial and consumer humanoids (www.cnet.com)
2026-1-6 AI Robot

Google plans to integrate Nano Banana and Veo support into Gemini on Google TV, letting users generate AI videos and modify family photos, first on TCL TVs (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-6 Google AI

An Even Better Trump Solution for Gaza (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-1-6 Trump

As US Communities Start Fighting Back, Many Datacenters are Blocked (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-6

OpenAI says 40M+ Americans turn to ChatGPT daily for health information, per an analysis of anonymized interactions, seeing it as an “ally” for health care (www.axios.com)
2026-1-5 U.S.

African fintech Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open banking startup Mono, sources say in an all-stock deal valued at $25M to $40M; Mono raised $17.5M since 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-5 Fintech Startup Africa Nigeria

Sources: Alibaba's Amap will soon launch an AI tool to let restaurants render 3D images by just uploading videos or photos, in a bid to compete with Meituan (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-5 Alibaba AI

The Middle East at a Moment of Strategic Choice (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-1-5

Taiwanese prosecutors file additional indictments against Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit and three other defendants over the alleged theft of TSMC trade secrets (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-5 Taiwan Tokyo

CES 2026: self-driving truck company Kodiak partners with Bosch to develop a hardware and software system to turn standard semi-trucks into autonomous vehicles (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-5 Autonomous Car

Foxconn reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$82.7B, above ~$77B est., and record December revenue up 31.8% YoY to ~$27.5B, driven by AI and networking demand (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-5 AI 4Q

Sources: Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax plans to price its Hong Kong IPO at ~$21, the top of its marketed range, and will stop taking orders a day early (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-5 Hong Kong IPO Startup AI Shanghai

Chinese automotive chipmaker Black Sesame says its Huashan A2000 chip passed the US Commerce and Defense Departments' “relevant reviews” for global sales (www.scmp.com)
2026-1-5 China

A profile of Max Tegmark, the physicist pushing to halt AGI development, who was subpoenaed by OpenAI over the Future of Life Institute's past ties to Elon Musk (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-5 Elon Musk

Samsung updates its TVs to add new AI features, including a Sound Controller feature to independently adjust the volume of dialogue, music, or sound effects (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-5 Samsung AI

A Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180,000 CT scans and detected ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its deployment in November 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-5 China Alibaba AI

Satya Nadella says the industry needs to move past slop-vs-sophistication arguments and view AI as a cognitive amplifier, not a human substitute (snscratchpad.com)
2026-1-5 AI

2025 Ends With Release of J. R. R. Tolkein's Unpublished Story (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-1-5

‘She has no support or respect': Trump trashes Venezuelan Nobel winner's claim to power (www.rt.com)
2026-1-5 Trump Nobel

Ex-CIA boss hints at involvement of Israeli intel in Iran protests (www.rt.com)
2026-1-5 Israel Intel Iran

Taiwan says China's cyberattacks on its hospitals, banks, energy, and other infrastructure rose 6% YoY in 2025 to an average of 2.63M attacks a day (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-5 China Taiwan Energy

Top 5 Mistakes Bush made in Iraq that Trump is making in Venezuela (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-5 Trump Iraq Venezuela

The Gulf's Cold War: Saudi-UAE Rivalry spills into Africa (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-5 Africa

Could MAGA Split over Trump's Revived Gunboat Diplomacy in Latin America? (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-5 Trump U.S. Latin America

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