AI Weekly: AI center stage at CES, xAI's funding haul
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Wed, January 7, 2026 at 6:19 AM EST
STORY: From AI taking center stage in Las Vegas... to xAI's funding haul...
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AI was a major focus at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Nvidia and rival Advanced Micro Devices revealed their latest chips.
AMD CEO Lisa Su was joined on stage by OpenAI president Greg Brockman.
He said chip advances were vital to the ChatGPT-maker's vast needs for computing power.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also announced that his company's next generation of chips was in full production.
And he promised they would deliver five times the AI computing power of earlier models.
Also in Vegas, Siemens CEO Roland Busch said the AI revolution was moving at a rapid pace compared to the past:
"Well, the Industrial AI Revolution, it has already begun and it's picking up steam faster than steam ever did. In fact, steam took 60 years to transform society. Electricity, 30. Computers, 15. For AI, you’re looking at seven years or less before intelligence is embedded in the system we rely on every day."
He was joined on stage by leaders from Nvidia and Microsoft.
They talked about their collaborations with the European industrial giant to bring AI into the real world.
Samsung plans to double the number of its mobile devices with "Galaxy AI" features this year.
And they will largely be powered by Google's Gemini.
Samsung already rolled out Gemini-backed AI features to about 400 million products by last year.
It now plans to raise that figure to 800 million over the next 12 months.
Elon Musk's startup xAI announced it raised $20 billion in a funding round - beating an initial $15 billion target.
The firm wants to ramp up development of new AI models and computing infrastructure.
xAI is training its next-generation Grok 5 model and wants to close the gap with rivals like OpenAI and Alphabet.
But Grok was also in trouble over what it said were lapses in safeguards which led to "images depicting minors in minimal clothing".
The pictures appeared on social media platform X.
Grok said improvements were being made to prevent recurrence.
The European Commission called the images unlawful, while authorities in Britain asked Musk's company to explain itself.
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