The best tech announced at CES 2026 so far

The FCA said firms wishing to undertake crypto-related activity will be need to be authorized when a new regime starts in October 2027.

This year's CES was an odd one. This is a conference usually dominated by futuristic, expensive TVs and futuristic, expensive cars, but those things weren't what dominated CES 2026. Instead, Las Vegas was filled with new ideas about old gadgets and showed us a whole lot of really impressive hardware waiting on software to catch up. On this episode of The Vergecast, recorded live at the Brooklyn Bowl in Vegas, David and Nilay talk through some of the big stories from this year's show. (Thanks to everyone who came to see us and stuck around after for drinks and bowling - we had a blast hanging with all of you!) We talk about the robots that c … Read the full story at The Verge.

Polkadot (DOT) dropped 1.4% and Ripple (XRP) fell 0.9% from Thursday.

Kia unveiled the EV2, a small and affordably priced electric vehicle built for the European market. The EV2 made its debut at the Brussels Auto Show, where executives touted it as its "most compact" EV to date. Of course, it was another in a long line of affordable, capable, and impressively designed EVs that won't be available to US customers - at least not right away. And it arrives at a time when Europeans have many affordable options from which to chose, potentially complicating Kia's strategy for the EV2. The EV2 will come in two trims: a Standard-range version, with 42.2kWh battery pack and 317 km (197 miles) of range based on the W … Read the full story at The Verge.

Elon Musk's AI company has restricted Grok's controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heated criticism from across the world for letting users generate sexualized images of women and children.

A close up photo of an Asus monitor showing its RGB stripe sub pixel layout. CES is a lot — a deluge of consumer tech surrounded by lots of bad carpeting. The Verge’s on-the-ground team of super nerds covered so many new products and technologies that it’s understandable if it was all a little overwhelming. That’s why we’ve gathered up a collection of trend reports from the show to help make sense of everything that happened at CES 2026, which, by extension, is a preview of the big tech stories for the year to come. Most dubious uses of AI at CES 2026 TV makers are taking AI too far Is this the world’s first solid-state battery? The PC market braces for an AI-driven storm The gap between premium and budget TV brands is quickly closing What surprised us the most at CES 2026 Wi-Fi 8 is appearing at CES before most of us have switched to Wi-Fi 7 CES promises the robot butler, but delivers better Roombas instead AI moves into the real world as companion robots and pets Power bank feature creep is out of control  I tested Nvidia’s Tesla Full Self-Driving competitor — Tesla should be worried RGB is the next big thing in OLED gaming monitors