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If there’s a single through line at CES 2026, it’s AI living. Every major brand wants you fully embedded in its vision of the smart home — a place where your appliances talk to each other, anticipate your needs, and quietly judge your lifestyle choices. LG even showcased an AI robot butler that resembled R.O.B. from Super Smash Bros., except this one performs laundry and engages in conversation with your air conditioner.

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Samsung, however, wants to go bigger.

Tucked inside the Wynn casino in Las Vegas, Samsung’s AI Living Exhibit is a sprawling showcase of what the company calls its "Companion to AI Living" vision — a fully integrated ecosystem where the term 'AI' is omnipresent. The setup walks press and attendees through a large museum with Samsung products that all promise to think, respond, and collaborate on your behalf.

And when I say everything has AI slapped onto it, I mean everything. The company debuted a first-of-its-kind 130-inch Micro RGB TV that uses AI to dynamically tweak picture quality, strip out commentary from soccer broadcasts, or boost crowd noise to stadium levels. There are also AI-enabled appliances that gamify the process of finding a recipe based on what’s in your fridge, then send instructions directly to your oven. There’s even an OLED "record player" that doesn’t play records at all — it just looks like one, presumably for vibes.

Behold. The world’s first 130-Inch Micro RGB TV Credit: Chance Townsend / Mashable

Samsung’s Vision AI Companion sits at the center of this whole operation, acting as the connective tissue between TVs, phones, appliances, and wearables.

Samsung wants its AI to be the omniscient power driving your home. Since at least 2017, tech journalists have been loudly declaring that there’s no escaping the smart home (and yes, I’m guilty, too), but with each passing year, we inch closer to that headline becoming less prediction and more lived reality. Your TV suggests dinner, your fridge confirms the ingredients, your washer times its cycle around your schedule, and your robot vacuum keeps an eye on the dog while you’re out.

Does all of this actually require artificial intelligence? That’s debatable. But CES has never been about restraint. Is it excessive? Absolutely. Is it impressive? Also yes, even if "AI living" sometimes feels like marketing.

The Tri-fold is here too, by the way It's essentially a very sleek tablet. Credit: Chance Townsend / Mashable

I’ll mention this last — fittingly, since Samsung is treating it the same way — but tucked inside the AI Living Exhibit is something people actually want to touch: the Galaxy Z Tri-Fold.

Because this is CES and not an Unpacked event, Samsung is being low-key about it. There’s no stage demo, no dramatic reveal, no "one more thing." That’s likely because the Tri-Fold is already on the market in South Korea, and Samsung clearly doesn’t want to step on its own marketing calendar.

If history is any indication, the phone will surface during a proper Unpacked event. That could mean January, sometime in the late spring or summer, or the fall window around September or October. Converted to U.S. pricing, the Galaxy Z Tri-Fold rings in at roughly $2,400 (or 3,590,400 Korean won), which helps explain why early reviews have been… divided. One particularly blunt headline labeled the device "expensive and half-baked," which feels both harsh and, depending on your tolerance for folding screens, not entirely unfair.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a keynote address to help kick off CES 2026 in Las Vegas.

The tech world was watching as Huang delivered his speech, considering Nvidia is the primary hardware company that powers the AI boom. Not for nothing, the other major player in that space, AMD, will present a keynote address of its own.

In advance of the speech, Nvidia hadn't said what, exactly, would be revealed during Huang's keynote beyond "what’s next in AI." But anything Nvidia does is big news in 2026 — so giving the keynote a watch is certainly a good idea.

The keynote was scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 5. You can watch a livestream on CNET's YouTube page, which we've also embedded below. If you miss the keynote, it'll be available to watch on replay. (Disclosure: CNET is owned by Ziff Davis, the same company that owns Mashable.)

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) CEO Dr. Lisa Su will help get CES 2026 underway on Monday, Jan. 5 by delivering a keynote address.

AMD is a major player in the tech world, if perhaps not a household name like Apple or Samsung. It's one of the preeminent chipmakers on the globe, making it increasingly powerful and important in the AI era. OpenAI, in fact, just announced a massive partnership with AMD in an effort to build out AI infrastructure.

AMD wrote on its site that Su will take the "CES stage in Las Vegas to highlight, alongside partners and customers, the AMD vision for delivering future AI solutions – from cloud to enterprise, edge and devices."

You can watch the keynote address on YouTube. It's scheduled to start at 9:30 p.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 5. We've also embedded the livestream below.

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