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Sunday, January 11, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 9 items from 13 sources. News & Analysis CES 2026 was all about ‘physical AI’ and robots, robots, robots (TechCrunch AI) CES 2026: Follow live for the best, weirdest, most interesting tech as this robot and AI-heavy event wraps up (TechCrunch AI) Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power (TechCrunch AI) Baldur’s Gate 3 studio says it won’t use AI for concept art or writing (The Verge AI) Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores (The Verge AI) X Didn’t Fix Grok’s ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It (Wired AI) X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire (TechCrunch AI) No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature (The Verge AI) Deep Dive: Today’s AI Landscape Synthesized from multiple research sources ...

TL;DR CES 2026 wrapped with NVIDIA’s next-gen Vera Rubin platform stealing the show. OpenAI launched a healthcare app built with 260 physicians. Anthropic closed a massive $10B round at $350B valuation. And the federal government is gearing up to fight state AI laws in court. Top Story: NVIDIA Unveils Vera Rubin Platform NVIDIA officially launched Vera Rubin, the successor to Blackwell, featuring six new chips including the Vera CPU and Rubin GPU. The numbers are striking: ...