The Open-Source Alliance for Physical AI
Hardware is hard. Doing it alone is harder. At CES Foundry 2026, DEEPX made a statement that cut through the noise of model launches and software demos. The company announced the formation of an open-source Physical AI alliance, designed to bring hardware and software builders onto a shared foundation. The ambition is deceptively simple: make […]
FDA is Moving Faster for Health Tech Regulation
For years, innovation in health technology suffered from heavy health tech regulation, and so it has moved at the speed of caution. Heavy regulatory frameworks, designed for drugs and high-risk medical devices, were applied to software that updates weekly, learns continuously, and often never touches a clinical decision. The result was a mismatch between how […]
Why the Most Important Robot Factory Is Inside a Robotics Simulation Server
For most of industrial history, learning happened on the factory floor. Machines were built, tested, broken, fixed, and refined in the real world. Progress was slow, expensive, and constrained by physical limits. There wasno talk of robotics simulation. At CES 2026, it became clear that this model is being replaced. The most important factory in […]
Hiring vs. Building Agents: The New Playbook for the AI Workforce
“Hiring somebody and training them takes longer than building an agent.” – That single line, delivered by Jason Calacanis during the All-In podcast interview at CES 2026, captured a shift that many leaders are already experiencing but few have fully articulated regarding AI in workforce. This is no longer a speculative debate about the future […]
Infrastructure Is the New Strategic Moat in the AI Era
We talk a lot about AI breakthroughs, new models, and faster software. What we discuss far less is the physical reality now sitting beneath every digital ambition. The next phase of technological progress will not be constrained by ideas or code. It will be constrained by infrastructure. Processing power, electricity, cooling, land, materials, and permitting […]
AI Can’t Afford to Be Wrong Anymore
If a consumer AI gives you the wrong answer, the consequences are trivial. A bad recipe. An incorrect summary. Maybe an eye roll. But when AI operates inside factories, supply chains, or critical infrastructure, the cost of being wrong changes dramatically. At CES 2026, Siemens CEO Roland Busch drew a clear line that captured this […]
The Rise of Proactive AI Agents and the End of the App Era
A flat tire used to be a mechanical problem. You noticed it, pulled over, figured out what to do, and dealt with the inconvenience. In the near future, the car notices first. At CES 2026, vehicles were demonstrated that detect a drop in tire pressure, assess urgency, check the driver’s calendar, and schedule a repair […]
Offline Is the New Luxury: Edge AI and the Rise of the Trust Economy
In a world defined by constant connectivity and ambient surveillance, something unexpected is happening. Offline is becoming a luxury. For years, we were told that AI required the cloud. That intelligence had to live in distant data centers, pulling our data upstream and returning answers downstream. But at CES 2026, the most compelling AI products […]
From Wow to Work: How CES 2026 Marked the Age of Applied AI
If the last three years of technology were defined by the question “What is possible?”, CES 2026 delivered a definitive answer. Everything is possible. Now, does it work? Walking the floor this year, the shift was unmistakable. The breathless hype surrounding generative AI’s wow moments has evaporated. In its place is a far more serious, […]
The Agent-to-Agent Economy: How CES 2026 Redefined AI Autonomy
For the last three years, the dominant mental model of artificial intelligence has been human-to-agent. You type a prompt. The system responds. You ask a question. The model retrieves an answer. At CES 2026, that model quietly became obsolete. What emerged instead was something far more consequential: the rise of the agent-to-agent economy. In this […]