Samsung reports record Q4 operating profit amid booming chip demand
Samsung Electronics reported historic Q4 operating profits, with projections near 20 trillion won driven by surging memory and AI chip demand. Multiple outlets note unprecedented profit gains fueled by a chip market supercycle, underscoring Samsung’s dominant position in global semiconductor production.
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Bluetti's CES 2026 innovations ensure ample power at home, in your car, at the campsite
appleinsider - The Charger 2 debuted at CES 2026 as an industry-first unified vehicle energy hub, and it is joined by more Bluetti innovations, like the Bio-based Elite 100 V2 and the high-capacity Elite 300 portable power station.Bluetti can ensure your adventure conti…
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Ford is getting ready to put AI assistants in its cars
Jonathan M. Gitlin / arstechnica - The Blue Oval is also working on new hands-free driver assists.
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Google and Character.AI Agree To Settle Lawsuits Over Teen Suicides
BeauHD / slashdot - Google and Character.AI have agreed to settle multiple lawsuits from families alleging the chatbot encouraged self-harm and suicide among teens. "The settlements would mark the first resolutions in the wave of lawsuits against tech companies whose AI chat…
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Samsung squashes hopes that it will release its Ballie home robot
Scharon Harding / arstechnica - Six years after its CES debut, Samsung has demoted Ballie to internal use.
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Apple Inks A Deal With JPMorgan To Power Its Apple Card As Goldman Sachs Surrenders The Business At A $1 Billion Discount
Rohail Saleem / wccftech - The inevitable seems to have come to pass. Apple has reportedly inked a deal with JPMorgan to take over its Apple Card business, which is now being surrendered by Goldman Sachs at a rare $1 billion discount. Apple Card will soon be powered by JPMorgan's f…
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Anthropic Raising $10 Billion at $350 Billion Value
Kate Clark / wsj - The planned deal represents nearly a doubling of the AI startup’s valuation from four months ago.
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WhatsApp Enhances Group Chats With Three New Features
Tim Hardwick / macrumors - WhatsApp announced three new group chat features today, expanding how users can interact and add context to their role within conversations involving many participants.The Meta-owned messaging app is rolling out Member Tags, Text Stickers, and Event Remin…
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Swap Raises $100M in Series C Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Swap, a NYC-based provider of a commerce operating system, raised $100m in Series C funding. The round was co-led by DST Global and ICONIQ. The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach, as well as to invest …
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Apple Evaluating Multispectral Imaging And A 200MP Camera Sensor For Future iPhones
Rohail Saleem / wccftech - It is not just the form factor of Apple's iPhone that is slated for a major revamp come 2027. As such, the Cupertino giant is aiming for a massive overhaul of nearly every element of its iPhones as the decade progresses, including equipping its iPhones wi…
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Philips Hue 'SpatialAware' feature harmonizes all the lights in a room
Steve Dent / engadget - Philips Hue has introduced a new software feature called SpatialAware at CES 2026 designed to ensure that all the lights in a space are in harmony with each other. Available exclusively for the Hue Bridge Pro, it takes into account each light point in a r…
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