AI Healthcare Revolution & $350B Anthropic Valuation: OpenAI Health Launch, AMD Helios & Major AI Deals | January 9, 2026

📋 Quick Takeaways

Anthropic raising $10 billion at $350 billion valuation — nearly doubling its value in three months
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health — allowing consumers to sync medical records; also unveils OpenAI for Healthcare enterprise platform
AMD unveils complete MI400 series and Helios rack — delivering 2.9 exaFLOPS per rack, challenging NVIDIA’s dominance
Samsung posts record quarterly profit — operating profit triples to $13.8B driven by AI memory demand
MiniMax IPO surges 78% in Hong Kong debut, reaching $11.6B valuation
Intel launches Core Ultra Series 3 — first platform built on Intel 18A process technology
CrowdStrike acquires SGNL for $740M — bolstering AI identity security capabilities
Musk vs. OpenAI lawsuit proceeds to trial — escalating the high-stakes AI industry legal battle

💰 Major AI Funding & Valuations

Anthropic Raising $10 Billion at $350 Billion Valuation

Massive Valuation Surge: Claude-maker Anthropic is raising a fresh $10 billion funding round at a $350 billion valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by TechCrunch.

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CES 2026: NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform, AMD Helios & The Dawn of Physical AI | January 6, 2026

📋 Quick Takeaways

NVIDIA unveils Vera Rubin platform — first extreme-codesigned six-chip AI system promising 10x reduction in inference token cost
“ChatGPT moment for physical AI” declared by Jensen Huang as NVIDIA releases robotics foundation models for Boston Dynamics, Caterpillar, and LG
NVIDIA launches Alpamayo — world’s first open-source reasoning AI for autonomous driving, shipping in Mercedes-Benz CLA this year
AMD counters with Helios — “world’s best AI rack” featuring 72 MI455X GPUs to directly challenge NVIDIA’s dominance
Intel debuts Core Ultra Series 3 — first consumer chips built on 18A process technology, pre-orders start January 6
World Labs demonstrates Marble — Dr. Fei-Fei Li showcases 3D world model creating physics-accurate virtual environments

🚀 NVIDIA Vera Rubin: Next-Generation AI Computing Platform

NVIDIA Unveils Vera Rubin — The Most Powerful AI Platform Ever Built

Landmark Announcement: At CES 2026 in Las Vegas on January 5, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled Vera Rubin, the company’s first extreme-codesigned AI platform featuring six integrated chips designed to revolutionize AI training and inference.

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CES 2026 AI Revolution: Nvidia, AMD Keynotes & Boston Dynamics Atlas Debut | January 5, 2026

📋 Quick Takeaways

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2026 focuses on “what’s next in AI,” featuring robotics, autonomous driving, and next-gen GPU innovations
AMD CEO Lisa Su delivers opening keynote unveiling Ryzen AI 400 series, refreshed desktop CPUs with 3D V-Cache, and enterprise AI roadmap
Johns Hopkins research challenges AI training paradigm — brain-inspired AI models produce intelligent behavior without massive training data
Boston Dynamics next-gen Atlas robot makes first public CES debut at Hyundai’s AI Robotics presentation
Intel launches Core Ultra 300 (Panther Lake) — first chips built on revolutionary 18A process with 15% efficiency gains
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite delivers 44% better CPU performance per watt than Intel competitors

🚀 Nvidia CES 2026 Keynote: The AI Industry’s Most Anticipated Event

Jensen Huang Takes Center Stage for 90-Minute AI Showcase

Date & Time: January 5, 2026, 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET