WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.240 Welcome to day one of our CES 2026 coverage. 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:06.440 You can look forward to getting CES tech news five days in a row 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:12.680 instead of the regular three with special guests in the midweek because in 2026 what happens in Vegas ends up on the internet. 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:18.680 NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage at CES in his trademark leather jacket 00:00:18.680 --> 00:00:22.120 and basically said the future is robots and we're building all of it. 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:25.480 NVIDIA is building the robots and also the chips those robots run on 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:28.400 and also the software and also the simulation tools. 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:34.160 It's NVIDIA's all the way down. The headline is the Rubin platform, their next gen AI supercomputer 00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:38.880 with six integrated chips, including the Vera CPU with 88 custom cores 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:44.080 and a Rubin GPU packing 336 billion transistors, which is more. 00:00:44.080 --> 00:00:49.560 NVIDIA claims five times the performance of Blackwell and a 10x reduction in inference costs. 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:53.520 They also unveiled Alpameo, which I thought was an expensive mayonnaise brand, 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:57.160 but it's apparently the first reasoning AI for autonomous vehicles. 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:01.880 Jensen showed a car navigating San Francisco supposedly thinking through decisions in real time, 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:05.640 which is more than I can say I do. NVIDIA announced that they're open sourcing it, 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:10.320 which either means they're very confident or they want everyone else to do the bug testing. 00:01:10.320 --> 00:01:15.920 Talked about lowering inference costs. But the real showstopper was when Star Wars BDX droids 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:19.160 walked on stage the exact same way they did last year. 00:01:19.160 --> 00:01:24.080 But this time they were fully autonomous, trained on NVIDIA's Cosmos AI models. 00:01:24.080 --> 00:01:28.880 Partners like Boston Dynamics, LG, and Caterpillar showed off robots running NVIDIA Silicon, 00:01:28.880 --> 00:01:33.360 which sounds impressive until you realize NVIDIA's entire business model is now 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:36.400 we sell the shovels in every gold rush simultaneously. 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:39.760 Autonomous cars, NVIDIA chips, humanoid robots, NVIDIA chips. 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:42.880 AI data centers, believe it or not, NVIDIA chips. 00:01:42.880 --> 00:01:47.880 I'm sure nothing can possibly go wrong with a single company building the infrastructure 00:01:47.880 --> 00:01:53.560 that's propping up the entirety of the US economy. Love it or hate it though, at this point, one thing's for sure. 00:01:53.600 --> 00:01:57.920 Jensen is building the cyberpunk dystopia that matches his cool leather jackets. 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:01.440 I guess that's Mad Max. One big desert. 00:02:01.440 --> 00:02:05.640 There's a phone with a robot ARM now. Honor unveiled the robot phone, 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:09.680 a device with an actual three-axis gimbal camera that pops out of the back 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.880 like something out of a Transformers movie. The camera can rotate 360 degrees, 00:02:13.880 --> 00:02:18.240 track your face autonomously, and basically turn your phone into a DJI Osmo 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:22.080 that also calls your mother, or doesn't call her, sorry. 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:26.880 Honor's calling it part of their $10 billion alpha plan for AI devices, which sounds like something 00:02:26.880 --> 00:02:30.800 a Transformers villain would announce before Shia LaBeouf shoved the all-spark 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:35.240 into its shiny metal ass. No pricing yet and it launches at Mobile World Congress in March, 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.600 which isn't CES and we care about CES. But if you've ever thought, 00:02:38.600 --> 00:02:42.480 my phone needs more moving parts, then this is your moment. 00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:46.560 And if you want the exact opposite, clicks unveiled the communicator, 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:50.880 a full BlackBerry-style phone with a four-inch AMOLED display, minimalist UI, 00:02:50.920 --> 00:02:54.120 physical QWERTY key-barred, headphone jack microSD slot, 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:59.000 and a fingerprint sensor in the space bar. It's 499, runs Android 16, 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:02.760 and is marketed as the best second phone on the planet, 00:03:02.760 --> 00:03:06.320 because apparently one phone isn't enough anxiety. Here's some more. 00:03:06.320 --> 00:03:10.000 Haining Toa'al showed off what they're calling the world's thinnest tablet. 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:13.800 So thin it makes the iPad Pro look like Kirby after inhaling an entire panda express. 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:18.080 TCL brought back Max Ink Mode on their NextPage Paper 70 Pro 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:22.440 to allow you to experience what it would be like if the page master designed a smartphone. 00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:27.560 And Solver announced customizable magnetic haptic buttons for phones, allowing you to bind whatever action 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:31.680 or string of actions you want, like quickly launching your I'm Pooping at Work timer 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:35.760 and making a new entry in your How Much Money Do I Make While Pooping at Work spreadsheet. 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:41.920 I'm up to 85 bucks in 2026 already, baby! Samsung brought some of the literally biggest news at CES, 00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:46.920 showing off their massive 130-inch R95H microRGB TV. 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:51.880 Unfortunately, they didn't provide pricing or availability deals for this wide boy, 00:03:51.880 --> 00:03:55.440 so who knows when we'll get to see Linus try to plug it into his house. 00:03:55.440 --> 00:03:59.640 But not only did Samsung unveil a big-ass TV, they also revealed a bright-ass TV 00:03:59.640 --> 00:04:04.640 with their 77-inch QT OLED panel capable of reaching up to 4,500 nits. 00:04:04.640 --> 00:04:08.560 Samsung touts it as the world's brightest self-emissive display. 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:16.000 Naturally, it's not tech in 2026 without AI in the mix, so Samsung also revealed some new TV AI-based software. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:21.200 For example, AI Sound Controller Pro is gonna let you mess with the volume of background noise, 00:04:21.200 --> 00:04:25.400 including music and crowds, to bride you with a personalized listening experience. 00:04:25.400 --> 00:04:30.920 As a purist, I hate this. Not to be left out of the CES Fun, LG previewed their 2026 OLED TV line-up 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:35.120 featuring the new G6 that boasts a more advanced tandem OLED panel 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.720 with about 20% higher brightness and greatly reduced reflections, 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:43.440 and the C6 series, everyone's favorite, now upgraded to tandem OLED. 00:04:43.440 --> 00:04:48.160 Big-ass TVs, bright-ass TVs, and even flat-ass TVs? 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:51.400 LG also showed off its ultra-thin wall-paper OLED design 00:04:51.400 --> 00:04:56.660 with the LG OLED EVO W6, a wireless, nine-millimeter-thin OLED TV 00:04:56.660 --> 00:05:00.760 that sits flush to the wall in pairs with a separate zero-connect box. 00:05:00.760 --> 00:05:03.760 Finally, Amazon said, we like that TV too, 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:08.760 and debuted the Ember Artline TV, a thin, art-focused, 4K lifestyle TV 00:05:08.760 --> 00:05:12.960 with a matte screen, customizable frames, and Amazon Photos integration 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:17.120 that seems ready to directly compete with Samsung's frame TVs. 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.720 Thank God, because those, they stink, you know? I've said it. 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:24.760 Plus, Amazon is kicking off 2026 with a major redesign to Fire TV's interface 00:05:24.760 --> 00:05:28.080 and mobile app that's meant to be cleaner, faster and easier to navigate. 00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:32.100 Now, let me usher you to our sponsor. The quick bits are angry, 00:05:32.100 --> 00:05:35.520 they didn't get to go to Vegas with the crew, but they keep it professional. 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:40.040 They showed up today focused and on task. 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If they can't, what are you even doing Sandisk? 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.440 More companies are reacting to rising RAM prices. 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:16.560 In an interview with Reuters, Samsung co-CEO, TM Rowe, said that this situation 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:20.120 is unprecedented and no company is immune to its impact. 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:23.880 Rowe didn't dismiss the possibility of increasing product prices, 00:06:23.880 --> 00:06:29.600 noting that some effect was inevitable. Outside of CES, that inevitable impact is already here 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:32.760 with Taiwanese retailers already raising laptop prices 00:06:32.760 --> 00:06:37.840 by roughly 15 to 20%, following ASUS's announcement of higher notebook 00:06:37.840 --> 00:06:41.400 and gaming PC prices starting January 5th. That's tea. 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:48.000 To be clear, we're not just talking about ASUS. Laptops from Acer, HP, Dell, MSI, and Gigabyte 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:52.200 have all seen price increases. At least Taiwanese retailers aren't copying Corsair, 00:06:52.200 --> 00:06:56.360 who sparked backlash by cancelling confirmed orders for DDR5 RAM kits 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:59.620 due to a pricing mistake and lack of stock, 00:06:59.620 --> 00:07:05.720 but then re-listed them at much higher prices before offering apology coupons that were already expired. 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:10.960 High performance RAM, terrible customer service. AI is everywhere at CES 2026 00:07:10.960 --> 00:07:14.840 with a ton of stuff, leaving us asking, why is this even a thing? 00:07:14.840 --> 00:07:20.360 First and almost certainly most importantly, Amazon's Alexa Plus finally went public in early access, 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:24.080 but AI's also showing up in Bosch coffee machines. 00:07:24.080 --> 00:07:27.600 Samsung teased its wild AI OLED cassette player 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:32.640 and turntable, blissfully bringing AI into a scene, using the occupied way of people trying not to deal with AI. 00:07:32.640 --> 00:07:35.240 GE unveiled its smartest fridge ever. 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:39.960 With a built-in barcode scanner for effortless grocery shopping, 00:07:39.960 --> 00:07:44.640 and AI even snuck into an ice cube machine. We're reaching a rule 34-like moment here. 00:07:44.640 --> 00:07:48.240 If something exists, there's a version of it with AI built in. 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:52.480 The shareholders are titillated. The PR nightmare continues for XAI 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:56.880 as multiple countries are now investigating the organization in the aftermath of GROC 00:07:56.880 --> 00:08:00.280 generating sexually explicit images of women and minors. 00:08:00.280 --> 00:08:03.240 France, Malaysia, and India have all either open investigations 00:08:03.280 --> 00:08:07.800 or issued orders to the company after GROC was caught generating CSAM. 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:14.240 X's response, it allowed GROC to issue a user-prompted heartfelt apology from the GROC account, 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:18.740 which was somewhat undercut by the fact that it had also issued a user-prompted statement 00:08:18.740 --> 00:08:23.760 that it was absolutely not sorry, telling users that it's revolutionizing tech, 00:08:23.760 --> 00:08:27.640 not babysitting sensitivities. India gave X 72 hours to fix it 00:08:27.640 --> 00:08:31.480 or lose legal immunity from liability for user-generated content, 00:08:31.520 --> 00:08:35.600 meaning X would be legally liable for all the content people post on the platform, 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:40.280 which could result in Elon Musk getting sued by Nintendo over all the Super Mario Brothers fan art 00:08:40.280 --> 00:08:44.120 I posted back in high school. A lot of chemicals in my body back then. 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:48.000 Microsoft has quietly killed phone activation for Windows and Office, 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:53.120 forcing everyone into online-only activation tied to a Microsoft account. 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:59.240 We're done here, boys. The support site still lists phone activation as an option, 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:03.280 but if you call the number, you'll get a message saying support for product activation 00:09:03.280 --> 00:09:07.840 has moved online, as YouTuber Ben Kleinberg discovered. So if you're trying to activate Windows 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:12.000 on an old machine without the internet, your offline alternative according to Microsoft 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:15.040 is now going online. 00:09:15.040 --> 00:09:19.800 I know people say this every year, but this might actually be the year of the Linux desktop. 00:09:19.800 --> 00:09:23.540 Man, all this talk of Linux and Vixx has me in a gambling mood. 00:09:23.540 --> 00:09:27.200 I'm hitting the casino. Don't forget to come back tomorrow for even more CES coverage. 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:30.520 That's right, five nights of tech news, baby. 00:09:30.520 --> 00:09:32.040 Line them up.