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The cost of CES 2026 has come to a head in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after days filled with press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews at Sunday’s Unveiled event.
As it has been for the past two years at CES, AI is at the forefront of many companies’ communications, although the hardware upgrades and mysteries that have defined the annual event still have their place at the show and nearby announcements. We’re rounding up the biggest and most surprising revelations here, though you can get a sense of what our team is up to and what we’re thinking. via our live blog right here.
Let’s dive in, starting with Monday’s biggest players.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave an expected presentation at CES, taking the success of AI-driven companies, and introducing 2026, yes, chat with robots.
Rubin’s computing infrastructure, which is designed to meet the ever-increasing computing demands generated by AI, is expected to replace Blackwell’s infrastructure in the second half of this year. It comes with fast upgrades and storage, but our AI editor-in-chief Russell Brandom goes to The nitty-gritty that distinguishes Rubin.
And Nvidia continued its push to bring AI revolution to the world, showing his Alpamayo a family of open AI models and the devices that will be used by autonomous vehicles this year. This process, as the main reporter Rebecca Bellan says, shows the company’s efforts to create Infrastructure Android for generalist robots.
AMD Chairman and CEO Lisa Su gave the first CES keynote, with a presentation that featured colleagues, including OpenAI President Greg Brockman, AI legend Fei-Fei Li, Luma AI CEO Amit Jain, and others.
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Continuing on from the show, senior reporter Rebecca Szkutak details AMD’s approach to expanding the reach of AI through your computers using its Ryzen AI 400 Series processors.
Let’s face it, by this point in the show the big announcements have been made, the products have been revealed, and it’s time to take a look at some of the most eyebrow-raising products from CES. We started our list of what stood out to us as odd and familiarbut we are open to other ideas!
CES isn’t all about showing off gadgets and showing off the floor – there’s a lot more industry content and speakers filming eyewitnesses. We looked at a number of popular items, starting with Palmer Luckey is pushing the retro aestheticwhy The “study once, work forever” era may be overto preview of Silicon Valley’s new series “The Audacity,” to an extension of Roku’s $3 streaming serviceto All-In host Jason Calacanis put a cool $25K on a real Theranos device.
Ford is launching its assistant in the company’s program before the release of 2027 in its cars, with hosting managed by Google Cloud and the assistant created using external LLMs. Like we saw in our storyhowever, little detail was provided on what drivers should expect from their experience with the agent.
As part of the ever-present push for AI in the environment, Caterpillar and Nvidia announced a pilot program“Cat AI Assistant,” which was shown at CES on Wednesday. The system, which is coming to one of Caterpillar’s excavators, is being carried out in conjunction with another project to use Nvidia’s Omniverse simulation tools to help in the design and planning of construction work.

One of the highlights of the show is Clicks Technology’s flagship phone, the $499 Communicator, which brings back BlackBerry’s tone and physical keyboard, plus a $79 physical keyboard that can be used with other devices.
Check out our full lineup from the show hereBut Communicator makes a good first impression, per Consumer Editor Sarah Perez:
“In our hands-on testing, the phone felt good to hold – neither heavy nor light, and it was easy to hold. Gadway told me that the company settled on the final shape of the device after several 3D printed models. The best design of the phone has a curved back that makes it easy to pick up and hold.
“The device’s sensor is also slightly raised from the body, and its chin is curved to create a recess that protects the keys when you place it face down.”

This parenting tool caught our eye at the show, not only because of its calendar and planning capabilities, but because of its AI capabilities that can synchronize calendars from different sources, create new ones based on messages or images, time reminders and more. Check out our full review here.
Hyundai’s press conference focused on its robotics partnership with Boston Dynamics, but the company revealed that it is working with Google’s AI research lab instead of competing to train and use existing Atlas robots, as well as a new iteration of the humanoid robot that was shown on stage. Sports editor Kirsten Korosec has a full summary.
Amazon’s AI-centric changes with Alexa + are getting the kind of push you’d expect at CES, and the company is launching Alexa.com for Early Access customers looking at using a chatbot through their browsers, along with a similar, redesigned bot app. Consumer Editor Sarah Perez has the details, as well as the story Amazon’s update to the Fire TV and new Artline TVswho have their own Alexa+.
In the ring, consumer reporter Ivan Mehta it goes through many declarationsfrom fire alerts to third-party camera integration software stores, and more.
In the past, Razer has been using non-standard hardware at CES, from a three-screen laptop to game of haptic cushions to a mask that fined the company. This year, two of its most exciting announcements were Project Motoko, which aims to work in the same way as smart glasses, but without the glasses.
Then there’s Project AVA, which puts an AI companion avatar on your desk. We’ll let you watch the emotional video for yourself.
Lego joined CES for the first time to show the closed doors of the Smart Play System, which includes bricks, tiles, and Minifigures that can interact with each other and play sounds, and all the basic sets have a Star Wars theme. Senior author Amanda Silberling they have everything here.