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Mushrooms, phonon lasers, and virtual reality prisons drive science Sunday

20 Jan 2026

This week’s roundup highlights a phonon laser that could shrink smartphones, edible fungi turned into living computer memory, and virtual reality programs transforming prisoner rehabilitation outcomes.

computing, emerging technology, healthcare, science

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Three unexpected Artificial Intelligence innovations by January 2027

19 Jan 2026

By January 2027, the author argues that three underappreciated shifts in Artificial Intelligence will reshape science, commerce, and robotics by elevating machine autonomy in research, economic decision making, and physical work.

agentic systems, artificial intelligence, robotics, science and research

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OpenAI plans advertising push for ChatGPT as it seeks new revenue

19 Jan 2026

OpenAI is preparing to introduce advertising into ChatGPT in an effort to monetize an audience described as 800 million weekly users, marking a significant strategic shift for the San Francisco company.

artificial intelligence, business, openai, technology

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South Koreans spend $6.8 billion yearly on generative Artificial Intelligence subscriptions

19 Jan 2026

South Koreans are now spending about 1 trillion won, or $6.8 billion, a year on generative Artificial Intelligence subscriptions, outpacing their payments to Netflix and signaling how quickly the technology has gone mainstream.

artificial intelligence, consumer tech, openai, subscriptions

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Nvidia faces mounting pressure in the Artificial Intelligence chip race

19 Jan 2026

Nvidia still dominates the Artificial Intelligence accelerator market, but hyperscalers, rivals like AMD and Google, and custom silicon providers are rapidly eroding its near-monopoly.

artificial intelligence hardware, cloud-computing, nvidia, semiconductors

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Sarvam artificial intelligence signs ₹10,000 crore deal with tamil nadu for sovereign artificial intelligence park

19 Jan 2026

Sarvam artificial intelligence has signed a ₹10,000 crore memorandum of understanding with the tamil nadu government to build india’s first full stack sovereign artificial intelligence park, positioning the startup at the center of the country’s data sovereignty push. The project aims to combine government exclusive infrastructure with deep tech jobs and advanced model development for indian use cases.

artificial intelligence infrastructure, government technology, india, startups

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Nvidia drive av brings artificial intelligence defined driving to new mercedes benz cla

19 Jan 2026

Nvidia is integrating its drive av software and artificial intelligence infrastructure into the new mercedes benz cla, delivering enhanced level 2 point to point driver assistance and over the air upgrade potential.

artificial intelligence, automotive, autonomous vehicles, nvidia

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Nvidia expands Drive Hyperion ecosystem for level 4 autonomy

19 Jan 2026

Nvidia is broadening its Drive Hyperion ecosystem with new sensor, electronics and software partners, aiming to accelerate level 4-ready autonomous vehicles across passenger and commercial fleets. The company is pairing this hardware platform with new Artificial Intelligence models and a safety framework designed to support large-scale deployment.

artificial intelligence, automotive, autonomous vehicles, hardware

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Nvidia brings frontier artificial intelligence models to the desktop with DGX Spark and DGX Station

19 Jan 2026

Nvidia is positioning its DGX Spark and DGX Station deskside supercomputers as a way for developers and enterprises to run the latest open and frontier artificial intelligence models locally, from 100-billion-parameter to 1-trillion-parameter workloads, while keeping data and code on premises.

artificial intelligence, hardware, nvidia, open source

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Nvidia DGX SuperPOD becomes blueprint for Rubin artificial intelligence factories

18 Jan 2026

Nvidia is positioning its Rubin platform and DGX SuperPOD as the core blueprint for the next generation of large scale artificial intelligence factories, unifying new chips, high performance networking, and orchestration software. The company is targeting massive agentic artificial intelligence, mixture of experts models, and long context workloads while cutting inference token costs.

artificial intelligence, data center, hardware, nvidia

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Nvidia unveils dlss 4.5, g sync pulsar and expanded artificial intelligence features for gaming

18 Jan 2026

Nvidia used ces to launch dlss 4.5 with dynamic multi frame generation, debut g sync pulsar displays and roll out new artificial intelligence driven tools for modders, cloud gamers and rtx artificial intelligence pc users.

artificial intelligence, cloud gaming, gaming, graphics hardware

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Nvidia rtx boosts 4k artificial intelligence video and local models on pc

18 Jan 2026

Nvidia is rolling out new rtx optimizations, tools and model support that speed up 4k artificial intelligence video creation, local search and small language model performance on consumer pcs and dgx spark desktops.

artificial intelligence, developer tools, hardware, nvidia