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
Dell Technologies is scrambling to fix its underperforming PC business after losing share to rivals in 2025. The company plans to broaden its portfolio to cheaper price points and is reviving its discontinued XPS line after a public apology.
Dell is officially resurrecting its XPS laptop brand after a failed attempt to rename its premium line. The new XPS 14 and XPS 16 launch on January 6th, starting at $1,649 and $1,849, with a thinner XPS 13 coming later in 2026.
