Bloomberg:
Jensen Huang says he isn't concerned about a billionaires tax under consideration in California, and plans to remain in Silicon Valley  —  Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, the world's ninth-richest person and head of the most valuable company, said he isn't concerned …

xAI:
xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding the $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training  —  xAI is rapidly accelerating its progress in building advanced AI.  —  xAI completed its upsized Series E funding round …

Felice Maranz / Bloomberg:
Sandisk shares jump ~23% after Jensen Huang highlighted the need for memory and storage at CES; SNDK is up 40%+ in the first three trading sessions of 2026  —  Sandisk Corp. shares jumped as much as 25% Tuesday, hitting a record in their best intraday performance since February …

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
Nvidia brings its G-Sync Pulsar tech to four monitors, which reduces motion blur by using a “rolling scan” scheme that briefly pulses the monitors' backlight  —  Four new monitors promise “effective motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor.”

Bloomberg:
Buyout firm Hg agrees to acquire enterprise financial software maker OneStream in an all-cash deal valued at ~$6.4B that is set to close in H1 2026  —  Buyout firm Hg has agreed to acquire OneStream Inc. in a deal valuing the financial software maker at an equity value of about $6.4 billion.