Daily Tech News 9 January 2026

• Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI for dropping the "Open" part will go to trial in March over the strident objections of major investor Microsoft and OpenAI itself. (Tech Crunch)
  
  OpenAI was originally structured as a public benefit corporation - and indeed a public benefit corporation with that name still holds a 26% stake in the company - but it abandoned any pretense of doing anything to benefit the public with the rise of Sam Altman.
  
  Elon Musk was a major early investor and filed suit claiming that public statements by the leadership of the company were directly contrary to its actions, and the judge has ruled that there is sufficient merit to the claim for the matter to go to trial.

• MSI has announced a Ryzen 395+ AI PC. (Notebook Check)
  
  No detailed specs but it will be just like all the others except not as ugly as the Acemagic one.
  
  
  
• Acer ditto. (Liliputing)
  
  This one actually looks rather stylish, in a retro electric razor kind of way.
  
  
  
• Asus has announced a 13" Ryzen 395+ laptop. (Tech Powerup)
  
  It lacks the four essential keys, because of course it does.
  
  
  
• You can buy an apartment in Shanghai for the price of a box of DRAM. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Well, they are talking about a box of 256GB server modules. Property prices haven't gone down either.
  
  
  
• We might have been slower to abandon Stack Overflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole. (PC Load Letter)
  
  True.
  
  
  
• AI slop is not welcome in the Linux kernel. (The Register)
  
  Good.
  
  
  
• Intel's Wildcat Lake is coming for low-power and embedded applications. (Liliputing)
  
  This is similar to chips like the N150 which has four efficiency cores. Wildcat Lake has six cores - but those are two efficiency cores and four even slower low power cores.
  
  How it will perform is anyone's right now.
  
  
  
• Nvidia will be release the RTX 5000 Super models sometime between not and never. (Notebook Check)
  
  The first outright casualties of the DRAM Apocalypse. They were planned to use 3GB GDDR7 chips to provide 50% more memory than existing models, but those 3GB chips were the first components to run out.
  
  
  
• Lenovo has announced a round mini-PC based on Intel's new Panther Lake CPU. (Liliputing)
  
  It has the new B390 integrated graphics, which are up to 50% faster than the previous generation, and probably the fastest integrated graphics short of the Ryzen 395, which is not really a commodity item despite the fact that everyone seems to be selling it.
  
  Also, it's round.

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