At CES 2026, Everything Is AI. What Matters Is How You Use It

Integrated chatbots and built-in machine intelligence are no longer standout features in consumer tech. If companies want to win in the AI era, they’ve got to hone the user experience.

The New Year’s Eve champagne isn’t even warm yet, and CES week is already upon us.

The giant annual celebration of consumer tech kicks off the first full week of January as companies across the world convene in Las Vegas to hawk their latest innovations.

As always, WIRED will be keeping track of the deluge of tech announcements. Our intrepid team will be in Las Vegas, bounding around event spaces, trying on headsets and petting possibly several robot dogs, while sharing videos of the most important—and most bizarre—stuff we find. Follow along on our CES live blog or dive into all our event coverage.

Everything Is AI; Nothing Is ...