Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is pushing back on the “AI slop” label. In a new post on his “sn scratchpad” blog, he argues that the conversation should move past “slop vs sophistication” and toward a view of AI as “cognitive amplifier tools” that support human work instead of replacing it.
Nadella writes that we “need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication” and build a new “theory of the mind” for a world
ASUS has started teasing a “Wi-Fi 8” device ahead of CES 2026. The images suggest it is a router, and the teaser shows an angular white and grey chassis with a “Wi-Fi 8” badge.
Wi-Fi 8 is the marketing name tied to IEEE 802.11bn, and the spec
MSI has posted a teaser for a new “flagship MEG X” monitor. The company calls it a QD-OLED model and labels it the “world’s first AI gaming monitor,” but it has not shared specs.
From the teaser, the panel looks ultrawide, and the MEG X naming lines up with MSI’s recent “X” refresh approach on other high-end products like
Corsair is canceling a wave of webstore orders for a 48GB DDR5 memory kit, telling buyers the item was listed at an incorrect price due to a system error. Customers say the checkout went through, then a cancellation email followed later.
In those emails, Corsair apologizes and says it had to cancel to keep “ pricing accurate and fair ” across the store. The company also offered a 15% off code for a future order
LG has revealed its product catalog for January to February 2026, but for some reason it includes unreleased laptops from Intel and AMD. The LG lineup is unlike other larger laptop makers with separate business and gaming families, because this catalog focuses on the gram series only, yet it already lists a wide range of systems.
As we reported earlier, LG says the 2026 LG gram lineup will be shown at CES 2026, with a new chassis material called
Qualcomm has shared new performance data for its Snapdragon X2 Plus 10-core and 6-core chips with the press, showing large gains in both CPU and NPU efficiency compared with current AMD and Intel laptop processors. Tests were run on Windows 11 using Geekbench 6.5 and UL Procyon benchmarks.
According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon X2 Plus 10-core delivers up to 3.1x faster multi-
Reports from China say AMD has completed a sales structure change for its consumer graphics business in the country. The reports suggest GPU channel oversight is now handled under the same leadership that manages AMD’s CPU sales locally.
According to the reports, AMD’s China graphics card sales director has been reassigned to other responsibilities. The GPU business is said to be managed by the CPU sales director going forward. The
INNO3D has officially listed its GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB iCHILL X3, a custom Blackwell-based card built around the GB206-300 GPU. The model targets 1080p and light 1440p gaming, with 4,608 CUDA cores, 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 128-bit bus, and a 26
NVIDIA opened 2026 with a GeForce NOW Thursday post that reads like a year recap and a January content drop. It highlights the GeForce RTX 5080 upgrade for the Ultimate tier and lists 14 games scheduled for January.
In the post, NVIDIA again ties Ultimate to Blackwell-class servers and calls out features it links to the RTX 50
After nearly a year since the first announcement, RDNA 4 GPUs have finally made their way into the Steam Hardware Survey. Why we had to wait so long is anyone’s guess. We heard several theories, including that Steam may not correctly identify GPU information when two cards are present or when integrated graphics is active, which could have caused AMD’s RX 9000 series to be underreported in the survey