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It's the first week of a new year and there's no time for the tech world to slowly ease back into things following the holidays. That's because CES 2026 is in full swing, with all manner of companies descending on Las Vegas to reveal their latest innovations and what they're planning to bring your way in the near future. 

Many of the Engadget crew are on the ground to check out as much of the new

• Elon Musk said he had a recent MRI.
• The xAI CEO said neither Grok nor his doctors saw anything wrong.
• Musk's decision highlights how some individuals are relying on AI to double-check their doctors.

Elon Musk said Grok gave him a clean bill of health.

Musk told podcaster Peter Diamandis that he recently underwent an MRI. Afterward, the xAI CEO said he followed his own

Microsoft is making it a lot faster and easier to add links to text inside Word documents. Instead of having to open a menu item to insert a link or use the CTRL + K keyboard shortcut, you can now simply paste a link on top of the text you want to hyperlink.

This new feature reduces the amount of clicks you need to do an everyday task like linking URLs, and it works across Word for the

• Four Google employees share the paths they took to transition into AI-focused roles at the company.
• They upskilled through hackathons, content creation, reading, and getting advanced degrees.
• It typically took around a year of preparation to pivot to new AI

It's jobs day in America.

At 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its monthly report on the employment situation for December 2025, giving us the latest look at unemployment, job growth, and wages.

The report will wrap up a year of a job market marked by a "Great Freeze" in which companies haven't been hiring very much, employees haven't been switching

• Companies such as Angi and Tailwind have said they're trimming staff this year.
• Most recently, Angi cited AI as a factor in its decision to shed around 350 jobs.
• See the list of companies letting workers go in 2026.

2026 is just getting started, and layoffs

• Hyundai's Boston Dynamics unveiled the latest version of Atlas, a 200-pound humanoid robot.
• Hyundai plans to deploy the robots at its Georgia factory by 2028.
• Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter told Business Insider

• Elon Musk says saving for retirement will be "irrelevant" if he's right about what the future holds.
• The Tesla and SpaceX CEO predicted AI would help create an "abundance" of resources for all.
• People would have "whatever

• President Donald Trump's call to ban large investors from buying homes rattled real estate stocks.
• Analysts argue that institutional homebuyers' firms no longer compete with everyday buyers.
• Business Insider spoke to one investor who explained why he's not concerned.

Trump's pledge to upend Wall Street's 15-year push into the market for single-family American homes raised

• James Malick, Point72's chief strategy officer, recently departed the hedge fund.
• Malick joined in 2023 after working for Izzy Englander's Millennium.
• Malick was a member of the senior leadership team of the $41.5 billion firm.

Point72's chief strategy officer is no longer at the $41.5 billion hedge fund.

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• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the world needs the US and China to figure out their relationship.
• Huang dismissed the thought that the nation's two largest economies should decouple.
• He said both countries should invest in their independence but also realize they need each other.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said it's "naive" to think the US will shift away