The custom Alexa voice assistant for BMW vehicles was initially announced in 2022, but progress has been slow in an attempt to build it around Amazon’s more capable LLM-powered Alexa.

Amazon says its “LLM-powered capabilities” will start rolling out to select BMW models this year that allow users to “plan trips and navigate more conversationally.”

Samsung’s estimated Q4 earnings are way down on both Q3 and analyst estimates. Part of the problem? It can’t develop new AI memory chips for Nvidia fast enough, but Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has faith:

“They have to engineer a new design ... But they can do it. They are working very fast. They’re very committed to do it.”

“I would be delighted to go see him and congratulate him and do everything we can to help this administration succeed,” Huang told Bloomberg.

Maybe the president-elect is waiting for his seven-figure donation, per Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Zuck, and Bezos — a bargain compared to the $259 million contributed by Musk.

The China-only chip comes with 2,375 AI TOPS, compared to the 3,352 on the RTX 5090 that will launch elsewhere, as pointed out by Tom’s Hardware. US export rules prevent chipmakers like Nvidia from selling high-powered chips to China.

Despite these requirements, it seems some of the company’s advanced chips have made their way into China through smuggling, according to The Information.

This is Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s introduction of Project Digits, a GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip-powered system with 128GB of RAM that costs about $3,000 and can run sophisticated AI models in a package small enough to sit on your desk.

An incoming change will criminalize the creation and sharing of sexually explicit deepfakes as part of efforts to tackle “vile online abuse,” the UK Ministry of Justice said on Tuesday.

It’s also going after people who take intimate images or videos without someone’s consent, with offenders facing up to two years behind bars.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is about to hold a keynote at CES that’s going to be full of GPUs and AI. We’re expecting a two-hour keynote that will delve into the latest AI announcements from Nvidia, new RTX 50-series GPUs, DLSS 4, and much more. You can tune in for all the news, below.

A Reddit user noticed that after using Meta’s AI tools to edit a selfie, Instagram made posts featuring AI-generated versions of themselves, as reported by 404 Media. Meta says it’s a test of a feature that puts AI-generated content for your Facebook and Instagram feeds.

The company already revealed that Ballie will arrive this year, but Samsung’s Alana Gomez Solis gave us a more specific timeline during its CES keynote.

My little article about the increasing phenomenon of people saying, “I asked ChatGPT” inspired Rob Dubbin to create a Chrome extension. It replaces references to ChatGPT with “my stupid friend.”

During LG’s CES 2025 presentation, it showed off its AI assistant running in a simulated car cabin and helped the driver order coffee and detour to pick it up. However, it also warned the driver about their elevated heart rate, which the driver assured was because of work-related stress. LG AI then played soothing music to help with that.

OpenAI’s pricey $200 ChatGPT Pro plan is losing the company money, but not because people don’t want to pay it — according to CEO Sam Altman, subscribers are simply getting more than their money’s worth.

“I personally chose the price and thought we would make some money,” he said on X.

It’s made by Jizai, which is based in Japan. The company calls Mi-Mo the “world’s first general-purpose AI robot,” and it’s supposed to think and act on its own. Someone was moving it with a Switch-looking controller when I saw it, so maybe it’s not quite up to autonomy yet.