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 al l 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 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 ...read more read less