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AI dominates as CES 2026 opens in Las Vegas

CES 2026 features over 4,100 exhibitors showcasing AI-powered innovations focused on practical deployment in industries, homes, and mobility, spanning 2.6 million square feet.

  • On January 6, CES 2026 opened in Las Vegas as a four-day event from 6 to 9 January across multiple venues, organised by the Consumer Technology Association and spanning more than 2.6 million net square feet with over 4,100 exhibitors.
  • As 2026 starts, technology companies showcased what they had been working on over the past year, shifting CES 2026's focus from sci-fi to practical AI improving daily tasks.
  • Keynote stages featured processor and platform announcements as Dr Lisa Su, AMD chair and CEO, unveiled new AI processors and a $150 million investment, while Nvidia revealed autonomous driving software and the `Vera Rubin` AI supercomputer with Siemens and Jensen Huang.
  • From self-driving systems to home robots, the show emphasized deployable tech, highlighting self-driving software, industrial digital twins, and household robots already in use or tested in kitchens, warehouses, and San Francisco road tests expanding later this year.
  • CTA forecasts the industry will reach $565 billion in 2026, amid CPU wars among Qualcomm, AMD, and Intel, highlighting fierce competition at CES.
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Most important technological event on the continent, the ESC attracts a large contingent of Quebec companies to Las Vegas every year. They are less numerous at the beginning of 2026, for the geopolitical reasons that one can guess, even if the international reach of the event remains attractive to weave business ties beyond the territory of the United States.

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Las Vegas Review-Journal broke the news in Las Vegas, United States on Wednesday, January 7, 2026.
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