• LG’s new OLED TV is just 9mm thick

    January 5, 2026

    A significant portion of the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is about TVs, and this year, LG is showing off its manufacturing chops with a new Wallpaper OLED TV that is just 9mm thick. The South Korean company first launched the Wallpaper line in 2017, and is now bringing it back with this model, dubbed OLED evo W6. The company says you can connect the TV to its Zero Connect Box wirelessly to stream lossless 4K video and audio, provided the box is within 10 meters of the TV. LG claims the TV improves on brightness, color and blacks compared…

  • Fraimic is an E Ink display that turns your ideas into AI art

    January 5, 2026

    It’s not the first of its kind, but a few key differences set Fraimic apart from other E Ink art displays. Aura, Switchbot and others have something similar. But unlike other versions, this one requires no subscription, lets you swap out the surrounding frame and doesn’t require an app to upload the art. Instead, a built-in mic picks up your idea, sends it to OpenAI and creates an image that pops up in a few moments on the screen. The on-board accelerometer even knows whether the device is in landscape or portrait orientation, and applies the correct format. A purchase…

  • Starlink offers free internet access in Venezuela following Maduro raid

    January 5, 2026

    SpaceX’s Starlink is offering customers in Venezuela free access to its internet service after the US captured the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. According to CNBC, some areas of Caracas and other parts of the country lost power and internet connectivity in the wake of the operation. Starlink says its focus is “on enabling connectivity for new and existing customers to support the people of Venezuela.” At the time of writing, Starlink does not yet appear to formally operate in the country, as its availability map states that service there is “coming soon.” Still, Starlink says it is proactively applying service…

  • Kodiak taps Bosch to scale its self-driving truck tech

    January 5, 2026

    Self-driving trucks company Kodiak AI announced on Monday it is working with global automotive supplier Bosch to develop a system of hardware and software that can give standard big rigs autonomous driving capabilities. The collaboration was announced at the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and it could help Kodiak bring its self-driving tech to more trucks, faster. Kodiak, which is developing self-driving trucks for highway, industrial, and defense uses, has already developed and designed a self-driving system with redundant systems for braking, steering, sensors, and computers. In January 2025, Kodiak’s self-driving trucks began making driverless deliveries for Atlas Energy Solutions in…

  • AI Interview Series #5: Prompt Caching

    January 5, 2026

    Question: Imagine your company’s LLM API costs suddenly doubled last month. A deeper analysis shows that while user inputs look different at a text level, many of them are semantically similar. As an engineer, how would you identify and reduce this redundancy without impacting response quality? What is Prompt Caching? Prompt caching is an optimization technique used in AI systems to improve speed and reduce cost. Instead of sending the same long instructions, documents, or examples to the model repeatedly, the system reuses previously processed prompt content such as static instructions, prompt prefixes, or shared context. This helps save both…

  • Impressive bass performance without a subwoofer

    January 5, 2026

    We’re used to Samsung updating its Q990 soundbar at CES every year, and 2026 is no different. However, the company also debuted the HW-QS90H: a new all-in-one option that Samsung says won’t require a standalone subwoofer due to its Quad Bass Woofer system. The QS90H offers 7.1.2-channel audio with 13 total drivers. Before the show properly kicks off, we got to listen to the new soundbar for a quick judge of its merits. The first thing I noticed about the QS90H is its impressive bass performance. Most of the time when a company claims its soundbar doesn’t need a subwoofer,…

  • Flutterwave buys Nigeria’s Mono in rare African fintech exit

    January 5, 2026

    Africa’s largest fintech company, Flutterwave, has acquired Nigerian open banking startup Mono in an all-stock deal valued between $25 million and $40 million, according to people familiar with the transaction. The acquisition brings together two of Africa’s leading fintech infrastructure companies. Flutterwave operates one of the continent’s widest payments networks, while Mono, often described as the “Plaid for Africa,” has built APIs that allow businesses to access bank data, initiate payments, and verify customers. Mono has raised about $17.5 million from investors, including Tiger Global, General Catalyst, and Target Global. Sources close to the deal said the acquisition allowed all…

  • A Coding Guide to Design and Orchestrate Advanced ReAct-Based Multi-Agent Workflows with AgentScope and OpenAI

    January 5, 2026

    In this tutorial, we build an advanced multi-agent incident response system using AgentScope. We orchestrate multiple ReAct agents, each with a clearly defined role such as routing, triage, analysis, writing, and review, and connect them through structured routing and a shared message hub. By integrating OpenAI models, lightweight tool calling, and a simple internal runbook, we demonstrate how complex, real-world agentic workflows can be composed in pure Python without heavy infrastructure or brittle glue code. Check out the FULL CODES here. !pip -q install "agentscope>=0.1.5" pydantic nest_asyncio import os, json, re from getpass import getpass from typing import Literal from pydantic…

  • Samsung brought an absolute beast of a 130-inch Micro RGB TV to CES 2026

    January 5, 2026

    Amid endless AI hype and a guest visit from the CEO of Hartford Steam Boiler (?!), Samsung had a big surprise for us tonight at CES 2026: A massive 130-inch Micro RGB TV. It’s so large, it’s suspended by a large metal stand that surrounds the entire screen, which also lets you tilt the screen just a bit. (For the Samsung diehards, it’s basically a reinvention of its “timeless gallery” stand from 2013.) I imagine bringing this TV home would be like Bart Simpson adopting his beloved elephant Stampy: Your pets would be terrified, and your family would probably be…

  • LLM-Pruning Collection: A JAX Based Repo For Structured And Unstructured LLM Compression

    January 5, 2026

    Zlab Princeton researchers have released LLM-Pruning Collection, a JAX based repository that consolidates major pruning algorithms for large language models into a single, reproducible framework. It targets one concrete goal, make it easy to compare block level, layer level and weight level pruning methods under a consistent training and evaluation stack on both GPUs and TPUs. What LLM-Pruning Collection Contains? It is described as a JAX based repo for LLM pruning. It is organized into three main directories: pruning holds implementations for several pruning methods: Minitron, ShortGPT, Wanda, SparseGPT, Magnitude, Sheared Llama and LLM-Pruner. training provides integration with FMS-FSDP for…