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Foreign. This is the weekend edition of Daily Tech Headlines for the week ending Saturday, January 3rd, 2026. I'm Sarah Lane. Let's catch up on a bit of breaking news and essential news over the past several days. Former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun criticized Meta's decision to put Scale AI co founder Alexander Wang and in charge of its superintelligence lab, calling him inexperienced in managing research and predicting more AI staff departures. In an interview with the Financial Times, LeCun says Meta's AI org was sidelined after internal fallout over Llama 4 results, which he says were fudged, costing CEO Mark Zuckerberg's confidence in the team. Lecun also reiterated his view that large language models are a dead end for superintelligence and and he said Meta's new AI leadership is overly focused on them. Pebble launched the $199. Pebble Round 2, a reboot of its thinnest smartwatch with a rounded e paper display, the watch focuses on basics like step and sleep tracking, though no heart rate monitoring, and delivers 10 to 14 days of battery life with dual microphones, physical buttons and Pebble OS support for apps. Pre orders are now open, with shipping expected in May. Pebble says AI features similar to its new smart ring will come to its watches in the future. India has ordered X to make immediate changes to its Grok AI chatbot after users and lawmakers flagged the company over obscene content, including AI, altered images of women and sexualized material involving minors. The IT ministry gave x72 hours to report corrective steps and and warned that failure to comply could strip the platform of its safe harbor legal protections under Indian law. On Friday, X acknowledged images depicting minors in minimal clothing were due to lapses in safeguards and that improvements are being implemented. Instagram CEO Adam Masseri predicts that AI generated content will soon outweigh non AI or authentic media on the platform. Masseri suggests the better solution is shifting the focus to fingerprinting real media rather than just detecting fake content. This acknowledges that AI slop, as it's sometimes known, is not going anywhere and that creators who post raw or even unflattering images over polished ones might be able to establish new authenticity. Ahead of CES, LG is teasing its 2026 Gram Pro lineup, including what it says is the world's lightest 17 inch RTX laptop with Nvidia's RTX 5050 laptop GPU and a new Aerominum not aluminum, but aerominum material designed to cut weight without sacrificing durability. The Gram Pro 16 has Intel's latest Core Ultra chips. LG is most certainly waiting until its keynote announcement at CES to offer price and availability. Denmark has ended its national letter delivery service Post Nord After 401 years, the first country in the world to do this. After a 90% drop in letters over the last 25 years and rising postage costs, around 1,500 jobs will be cut with focus shifting to parcel delivery. Citizens can still send a letter through a private company, either through a shop or through an app based collection service. The government promises universal access if needs change in the future. Vernon, California, a small industrial city south of downtown Los Angeles, has emerged as a hub for AI data centers, with facilities consuming electricity equivalent to more than 26,000 homes. Developers are drawn by Vernon's publicly owned utility, which offers cheaper power, excess capacity and minimal neighborhood opposition since only about 200 residents actually live there. LA has more than 70 data centers, including the large One Wilshire building downtown, a destination for massive undersea cables that connect the US to Asia, with major telecom operators and providers such as Netflix, Amazon and Microsoft all competing for space there. Starlink plans to lower the orbits of approximately 4,400 satellites from 550 km to about 480 km as a safety and reconfiguration measure. This is meant to reduce collision risks in a less crowded region and let satellites deorbit much faster if and when that's needed. The move is also critical due to the coming solar minimum, which is going to decrease atmospheric density. The lower orbit will cut the ballistic decay time by over 80% from more than four years to just a few months. Windows 11 saw a big spike on Steam in December, now reaching 70.83% of users, likely fueled by Windows 10's end of life and migrations from handheld devices. Windows 10 dropped to 26.7% and Linux hovered over just 3%. Other hardware trends showed growth in 32 gigabyte RAM systems. The Nvidia RTX 3060 became the most common GPU and Metis Quest 3 overtook the Quest 2 as the leading VR headset. Fender announced its new Elie or Ely Bluetooth speaker line that can play audio from up to four connected devices simultaneously, either using Bluetooth or connected through an XLR cable. The speakers come in two sizes. They deliver up to 120 watts of output and promise as much as 18 hours of battery life. You can stereo pair two speakers or sync up to 100 of them to fill a larger space. The Eley speakers are expected to launch later this year. By the way, the company says Elie is short for extremely loud, infinitely expressive. So I guess they're loud and expressive. For more analysis of the tech news of the day and the week, subscribe to dailytechnewsshow.com you can find, show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I'm Sarah Lane. Thank you for listening. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and we'll talk to you straight from CES starting Monday.