AWS has increased the price of its GPU instances for machine learning by about 15 percent. The move, which happened over the weekend without warning, marks a significant shift from the company’s typical price reductions.
At CES, Siemens unveiled a massive push into industrial AI, centered on a new Digital Twin Composer built with NVIDIA. They’re targeting a $150 billion market by 2030 and already have PepsiCo as a flagship customer, reporting major efficiency gains. But the move raises big questions about governance
A California state senator has introduced a bill to ban the sale of AI chatbot-enabled toys for four years. The move follows incidents where such toys gave dangerous advice to children. The bill’s fate is uncertain, facing potential veto from the governor.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has secured a staggering $20 billion in new funding. The round includes backing from Nvidia and uses a unique financial structure to lock down critical GPU hardware.
Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been awarded the prestigious IEEE Medal of Honor. The award, announced at CES on January 6, comes with a $2 million prize and recognizes his lifetime of work in accelerated computing.
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, says the AI boom is in the “early stages of a bubble.” He’s not alone, as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and investor Michael Burry have expressed similar concerns. Yet, the market keeps climbing.
ASUS’s Republic of Gamers brand went all out at CES 2026. The lineup includes laptops with 160W RTX 5090s, a wild trifold dual-screen Duo, a Death Stranding-themed tablet, and a desktop with holographic fans.
HASI is investing up to $500 million into a joint venture with Sunrun to finance distributed home energy projects. The partnership aims to fund over 300 MW of capacity across more than 40,000 home power plants nationwide.
HP is bringing the keyboard PC back. The new EliteBoard G1a packs an AMD Ryzen AI processor, up to 64GB of RAM, and modular parts into a 1.5-pound chassis. It’s a bizarre but fascinating twist on the all-in-one.
Nvidia is pushing ahead on two major fronts. Its next-generation Rubin AI data center processors are now in production and on track for customer deployment in the second half of 2025. Simultaneously, the company reports “strong” demand from China for the H200 chip, with license applications pending
