I met a lot of weird robots at CES — here are the most memorable |

CES has always been a robot extravaganza, and this year’s event saw the announcement of a number of important robotics developments, including the new, production-ready…

CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities  |

CES 2026iswinding downin Las Vegas,as the consumer tech industry and everyone swarming around it begin their return flights home.Over the past few days, we saw…

I watched LG's new home robot CLOiD do laundry but I have questions |

CES is always chock-full of robots, and this year electronics giant LG announced a new bot, dubbed CLOiD, that it claims will revolutionize household chores…

Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power |

Meta today announced three deals to provide its data centers with nuclear power: one from a startup, one from a smaller energy company, and one…

Anthropic adds Allianz to growing list of enterprise wins |

AI research lab Anthropic continues to land sizable enterprise deals. Its latest entails bringing its large language models to a legacy German insurance giant. Anthropic…

X restricts Grok's image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world's ire |

In Brief Posted: 5:59 AM PST · January 9, 2026 Elon Musk’s AI company has restricted Grok’s controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers…

Internet collapses in Iran amid protests over economic crisis |

10:35 AM PST · January 8, 2026 Internet connectivity collapsed across Iran on Thursday amid nationwide protests, according to web monitoring firms. “I think we’re…

Governments grapple with the flood of non-consensual nudity on X |

2:08 PM PST · January 8, 2026 For the past two weeks, X has been flooded with AI-manipulated nude images, created by the Grok AI…

Critics pan spyware maker NSO's transparency claims amid its push to enter US market |

NSO Group, one of the most well-known and controversial makers of government spyware, released a new transparency report on Wednesday, as the company enters what…

Caterpillar taps Nvidia to bring AI to its construction equipment |

Caterpillar is diving deeper into incorporating AI and automation into its fleet of construction machinery through a partnership with semiconductor giant Nvidia. The construction equipment…