Nvidia launched Vera Rubin, a new data‑center platform, AMD introduced Helios, and Lenovo showcased Qira at CES 2026, while Chinese companies demonstrated a large presence in AI hardware, consumer AI devices, and humanoid robotics at the event.
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Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind advanced mechanistic interpretability and chain‑of‑thought monitoring techniques, with Anthropic deploying sparse autoencoders to trace activations and OpenAI and DeepMind using monitoring tools to identify model misbehavior and cheating.
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OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta expanded hyperscale AI data‑center deployments, which were reported to consume gigawatts of power, rely on liquid or immersion cooling, and raise energy, water and local infrastructure concerns.