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Calacanis, General Catalyst's Taneja, and McKinsey's Sternfels discussed how AI is reshaping technology and the labor force.

Chinese officials are reportedly reviewing whether the Meta deal violates technology export controls, potentially giving Beijing leverage it wasn't initially perceived as having.

CES 2026is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of daysoccupied bypress conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMDand previews from Sundays Unveiled event. As has been the case for the past two years at CES, AI is at the forefront of []

The most surprising part is that the plastic isn't the biggest problem.

When fake content goes viral, the damage has already been done, even if the post is debunked.

Mentee Robotics was co-founded by Mobileye president Amnon Shashua.

Nvidia is among the many investors, but xAI has not disclosed if these investments come in the form of equity or debt.

Our children cannot be used as lab rats for Big Tech to experiment on, Senator Steve Padilla said. He just introduced a bill to ban AI chatbots in toys until safety regulations are developed.

From an AI panda pet to an anime girl hologram for your desk, here are the wildest products at CES 2026.

Intel has been building chips designed for gaming PCs for years but the company is now moving into handheld devices too.

LMArena, which started as a UC Berkeley research project, has raised about $250 million total and become a unicorn in about seven months.

Meta had originally planned to launch the glasses in France, Italy, Canada, and the U.K. in early 2026.

The new Ring Sensors can detect motion, openings, glass breakage, and smoke, and can also monitor carbon monoxide levels, leaks, temperature changes, and air quality.

Narwal's new robo vacuum cleaner switches to quiet mode near a baby's crib.

Lego developed a custom ASIC chip that allows its new Ssmart Bricks to pick up on signals from surrounding Smart Tags that dictate how it should make sounds or light up.

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

The lawsuits seek to reverse the Department of the Interior's stop-work order, which affected five offshore wind projects off the Eastern Seaboard.

Hesai said it now plans to build as many as 4 million lidar sensors in 2026, up from 2 million, as it tries to corner a market with one fewer player after Luminar's bankruptcy.

BMW is finally getting the next-generation Alexa voice assistant and its coming with a generative AI upgrade. Amazon said Monday that the 2026 BMW iX3 will be equipped with Alexa+, the same generative AI tech that launched in millions of the e-commerce giants smart devices last year. This will be the first vehicle to come []

Lucid built more than 18,000 EVs in 2025 and delivered more than 15,000 after a tough start to the year -- still a far cry from the high bar it set in 2021.

Amazon is bringing Alexa+ to the web with a new Alexa.com site, expanding its AI assistant beyond devices and positioning it as a family-focused, agent-style chatbot.

Fire TV's new interface focuses on your content and offers easier, speedier navigation, Amazon says.

Google TV will let you ask Gemini to find and edit your photos, adjust your TV settings and more.

This year LG is showing off its manufacturing chops at CES with a new Wallpaper OLED TV that is just 9mm thick.

The Luminar founder claims he has been cooperative.

The company is tapping the terahertz band of the electromagnetic spectrum to bring out the best qualities of more common lidar and radar sensors.

There is no timeline for when these systems will become available. But once they do, Kodiak could bring its tech to more trucks, faster.

Africas largest fintech company, Flutterwave, has acquired Nigerian open banking startup Mono in an all-stock deal valued between $25 million and $40 million, according to people familiar with the transaction. The acquisition brings together two of Africas leading fintech infrastructure companies. Flutterwave operates one of the continents widest payments networks, while Mono, often described as []

DoorDash seems to have confirmed a viral story about a driver using an AI-generated photo to lie about making a delivery.

France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grok for creating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors.

Plaud is going after the likes of Granola to launch a desktop app that records online meetings

Subtle's new $199 earbuds will also let you dictate in any app on desktop or phone

Jeff Bezos led the way. The Amazon founder sold 25 million shares for $5.7 billion in June and July, right around the time he was getting hitched to Lauren Sanchez in Venice.

A new tool should make it easier for California residents to limit data brokers ability to store and sell their personal information.

Ilya Lichtenstein, who pled guilty to money laundering charges tied to his role in the massive hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex, has apparently been released early from prison.