timef 01/06/2026
- Meta pauses international expansion of its Ray-Ban Display glasses techcrunch.com2026-01-06 23:04:49
Meta had originally planned to launch the glasses in France, Italy, Canada, and the U.K. in early 2026.
- Amazon’s Ring doorbells get fire alerts, an app store and new sensors techcrunch.com2026-01-06 22:00:00
The new Ring Sensors can detect motion, openings, glass breakage, and smoke, and can also monitor carbon monoxide levels, leaks, temperature changes, and air quality.
- Narwal adds AI to its vacuum cleaners to monitor pets and find jewelry techcrunch.com2026-01-06 15:18:00
Narwal's new robo vacuum cleaner switches to quiet mode near a baby's crib.
- AMD unveils new AI PC processors for general use and gaming at CES techcrunch.com2026-01-06 11:30:00
AMD announced the latest version of its AI-powered PC chips designed for a variety of tasks from gaming to content creation and multitasking.
- Insight Partners sued by former vice president Kate Lowry techcrunch.com2026-01-06 07:30:00
Insight Partners sued by former vice president Kate Lowry.
- Microsoft’s Nadella wants us to stop thinking of AI as ‘slop’ techcrunch.com2026-01-06 07:09:56
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.
- This is Uber’s new robotaxi from Lucid and Nuro techcrunch.com2026-01-06 07:00:04
The production-intent version, unveiled at CES 2026 on Monday, will be an exceptionally roomy entry into the growing robotaxi market later this year.
- Nvidia wants to be the Android of generalist robotics techcrunch.com2026-01-06 07:00:00
Nvidia unveiled a full-stack robotics ecosystem at CES 2026, including foundation models, simulation tools, and hardware. It wants to be the default platform for robotics.
- Nvidia launches powerful new Rubin chip architecture techcrunch.com2026-01-06 06:16:58
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.
- Boston Dynamics’s next-gen humanoid robot will have Google DeepMind DNA techcrunch.com2026-01-06 05:55:55
Google's AI research lab is working with Boston Dynamics to make Atlas act more like a human.
- LEGO SMART Bricks introduce a new way to build — and they don’t require screens techcrunch.com2026-01-06 04:31:51
LEGO developed a custom ASIC chip that allows its new SMART Bricks to pick up on signals from surrounding SMART Tags that dictate how it should make sounds or light up.
- Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to ‘think like a human’ techcrunch.com2026-01-06 04:27:03
Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo at CES 2026, which includes a reasoning vision language action model that allows an autonomous vehicle to think more like a human and provide chain-of-thought reasoning.
- Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference techcrunch.com2026-01-06 02:57:31
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
- Offshore wind developers sue Trump administration for halting $25B in projects techcrunch.com2026-01-06 02:20:23
The lawsuits seek to reverse the Department of the Interior's stop-work order which affected five offshore wind projects off the Eastern Seaboard.
- China’s Hesai will double production as lidar sensor industry shakes out techcrunch.com2026-01-06 02:00:00
Hesai said it now plans to build as many as 4 million lidar sensors in 2026, up from 2 million, as it tries to corner a market with one fewer player after Luminar's bankruptcy.
- The 2026 BMW iX3 voice assistant will be powered by Alexa+ techcrunch.com2026-01-06 01:00:00
BMW is finally getting the next-generation Alexa voice assistant and it’s coming with a generative AI upgrade. Amazon said Monday that the 2026 BMW iX3 will be equipped with Alexa+, the same generative AI tech that launched in millions of the e-commerce giant’s smart devices last year. This will be the first vehicle to come […]
- Lucid Motors doubled EV output in 2025 after early Gravity SUV struggles techcrunch.com2026-01-06 00:51:18
Lucid built more than 18,000 EVs in 2025 and delivered more than 15,000 after a tough start to the year -- still a far cry from the high bar it set in 2021.
