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AI News Briefing — January 7, 2026

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Nvidia dominated this week's AI news with multiple major announcements at CES 2026:

Liquid AI released LFM2.5, a family of 1.2B parameter open-weight models trained on 28T tokens, targeting on-device deployment with vision, audio, and Japanese variants. In policy news, the UK government proposed an 'AI Growth Lab' regulatory sandbox while The Law Society argued current laws remain adequate for AI governance.

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Nvidia Ecosystem Expansion · 3AI Hardware Competition · 2Open Source Models · 2AI Regulation & Policy · 1

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News Last Week in AI Jan 6

Last Week in AI #331 - Nvidia announcements, Grok bikini prompts, RAISE Act

By Last Week in AI

88 score
AI Analysis
Building on yesterday's Reddit buzz Nvidia announced the Vera Rubin AI chip at CES 2026, representing a major efficiency breakthrough requiring only one-quarter as many chips as Blackwell for training and delivering inference at one-tenth the cost. The chip will ship to customers like Microsoft and Amazon in the second half of the year, as Nvidia defends its 90%+ market share.
Nvidia Details New A.I. Chips and Autonomous Car Project With MercedesRelated:Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to ‘think like a human’Nvidia launches Vera Rubin AI computing platform at CES 2026At CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the company’s new AI chip, Vera Rubin, which will begin shipping to customers like Microsoft and Amazon in the second half of the year. The chip represents a major efficiency leap, requiring only one-qu
AI HardwareNvidiaCES 2026AI Infrastructure
News aibusiness Jan 6

Nvidia's AI Driving Tech to Debut in Mercedes CLA in 2026

By Graham Hope

76 score
AI Analysis
Building on yesterday's Social buzz Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo, a new family of open source models designed for autonomous driving 'long-tail' challenges. Mercedes will be the first automaker to deploy this technology in the CLA model by 2026.
The automaker will be the first to utilize Alpamayo, a new family of open source models created to tackle long-tail autonomous driving challenges.
Autonomous DrivingOpen SourceNvidiaAutomotive AI
News aibusiness Jan 6

Nvidia Launches Physical AI Models for Robots

By Scarlett Evans

73 score
AI Analysis
Continuing our coverage from yesterday, Nvidia launched new Physical AI models specifically designed for robotics applications, alongside simulation frameworks and edge computing hardware. This expands Nvidia's push into embodied AI and robotics infrastructure.
The AI giant also unveiled simulation frameworks and edge computing hardware.
RoboticsPhysical AINvidiaEdge Computing
News MarkTechPost Jan 6

Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5: A Compact AI Model Family For Real On Device Agents

By Asif Razzaq

68 score
AI Analysis
Liquid AI released LFM2.5, a family of compact foundation models (1.2B parameters) optimized for on-device and edge deployment, with open weights on Hugging Face. The models were trained on 28T tokens (up from 10T) and include vision, audio, and Japanese language variants.
Liquid AI has introduced LFM2.5, a new generation of small foundation models built on the LFM2 architecture and focused at on device and edge deployments. The model family includes LFM2.5-1.2B-Base and LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct and extends to Japanese, vision language, and audio language variants. It is released as open weights on Hugging Face and exposed through the LEAP platform. Architecture and training recipe LFM2.5 keeps the hybrid LFM2 architecture that was designed for fast and memory e
Open SourceEdge AISmall Language ModelsMultimodal AI
News aibusiness Jan 6

AMD Competes With Intel With New AI Chips

By Esther Shittu

58 score
AI Analysis
AMD announced new AI chips aimed at competing with Intel in the PC market. The company still faces adoption challenges with PC manufacturers despite the new offerings.
The microprocessor vendor still has much to do in terms of getting its chips adopted by PC companies.
AI HardwareAMDConsumer TechChip Competition
News AI News Jan 6

The Law Society: Current laws are fit for the AI era

By Ryan Daws

55 score
AI Analysis
The UK government launched a call for evidence on an 'AI Growth Lab' proposing time-limited regulatory exemptions for autonomous technologies. The Law Society counters that existing laws are sufficient if properly applied to AI contexts.
As ministers push to loosen rules to speed up AI adoption, The Law Society argues that lawyers just need to know how current laws apply. The Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) recently launched a call for evidence on a proposed ‘AI Growth Lab’. This cross-economy sandbox is designed to accelerate the deployment of autonomous technologies by granting “time-limited regulatory exemptions” to firms. The government’s position is that many regulations are outdate
AI RegulationUK PolicyAI GovernanceLegal
News MarkTechPost Jan 6

How to Design an Agentic AI Architecture with LangGraph and OpenAI Using Adaptive Deliberation, Memory Graphs, and Reflexion Loops

By Asif Razzaq

45 score
AI Analysis
A technical tutorial demonstrating how to build advanced agentic AI systems using LangGraph and OpenAI, featuring adaptive deliberation, memory graphs, and reflexion loops for more sophisticated agent behavior.
In this tutorial, we build a genuinely advanced Agentic AI system using LangGraph and OpenAI models by going beyond simple planner, executor loops. We implement adaptive deliberation, where the agent dynamically decides between fast and deep reasoning; a Zettelkasten-style agentic memory graph that stores atomic knowledge and automatically links related experiences; and a governed tool-use mechanism that enforces constraints during execution. By combining structured state management, memory-awar
Agentic AITutorialLangGraphAI Development
News MarkTechPost Jan 6

Marktechpost Releases ‘AI2025Dev’: A Structured Intelligence Layer for AI Models, Benchmarks, and Ecosystem Signals

By Asif Razzaq

38 score
AI Analysis
Marktechpost released AI2025Dev, an analytics platform providing queryable datasets on AI model releases, benchmarks, and ecosystem participants. The platform is free for developers and researchers.
Marktechpost has released AI2025Dev, its 2025 analytics platform (available to AI Devs and Researchers without any signup or login) designed to convert the year’s AI activity into a queryable dataset spanning model releases, openness, training scale, benchmark performance, and ecosystem participants. Marktechpost is a California based AI news platform covering machine learning, deep learning, and data science research. What’s new in this release The 2025 release of AI2025Dev expands cov
AI ToolsAnalyticsDeveloper Resources