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Insight Partners sued by former vice president Kate Lowry

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Nvidia launches powerful new Rubin chip architecture: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang officially launched the company’s new Rubin computing architecture, which he described as the state of the art in AI computing. Read More

This is Uber's new robotaxi from Lucid and Nuro: The production-intent version, unveiled at CES 2026 on Monday, will be an exceptionally roomy entry into the growing robotaxi market later this year. Read More

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Microsoft's Nadella wants us to stop thinking of AI as 'slop'

Microsoft's Nadella wants us to stop thinking of AI as 'slop': Nadella wants us to think of AI as a human helper instead of a slop-generating job killer. New data for 2026 indicates he could be right. Read More

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