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Nvidia's reportedly asking Chinese customers to pay upfront for its H200 AI chips

Nvidia is now requiring its customers in China to pay upfront in full for its H200 AI chips even as approval stateside and from Beijing remains uncertain.

The National Weather Service took down an AI-generated forecast map showing fake towns.

It made up the towns of “Whata Bod” and “Orangeotild,” for example.

Microsoft will put buy buttons directly in Copilot

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Snowflake announces its intent to buy observability platform Observe

Snowflake is bolstering its data stack to make the platform better suited to the sheer volume of data produced by AI agents.

Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI will face a jury in March

District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said there was evidence suggesting OpenAI’s leaders made assurances that its original nonprofit structure would be maintained. The case will go to trial in March.

Is this the world’s first solid-state battery?

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Europe demands X retain documents amid Grok’s undressing spree.

The European Commission extended an order requiring X to keep documents related to Grok through the end of the year so that it can evaluate compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA), Reuters reports. X is facing international scrutiny as its AI chatbot continues virtually undressing images without consent.

Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them

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Hands-on with a prototype of Clicks' Communicator, a new BlackBerry-like smartphone

TechCrunch goes hands-on at the CES 2026 show with the new Clicks Communicator, a new Android smartphone with a physical keyboard.

Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement

“This is a very significant contribution to the astronomical community.”

ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues

Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not.

Google announces AI Overviews in Gmail search, experimental AI-organized inbox

Last year’s premium Gmail AI features are also rolling out to free users.