When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. There's barely a mention in Samsung's press kit, but booth attendants assured us Music Studio 5 & 7 speakers support Alexa, Google Assistant, and Bixby. Samsung has dabbled in the smart speaker space before, but the company's all-new Music Studio 5 and Music Studio 7 Wi-Fi speakers pose serious competition for the likes of Amazon, Apple, Bose, and Sonos--at least at the higher-end of the market. Unveiled this week at CES and planned for a March release, both models present a distinctively modern, "dot-faced" industrial design by noted French artist Erwan Bouroullec, along with some equally interesting features destined to set them apart from the pack. Initial shipments will be in black or white only.)

Samsung unveiled AI-powered products at CES 2026: Everything announced from the year's first press conference CES 2026 kicked off with a big press conference from one of the biggest companies at the show: Samsung. The tech giant held its first look presentation to show off new home products and make a plethora of AI-infused announcements. New TVs, speakers, projectors and more were among the headliners, along with updated gaming monitors and soundbars. Many of the products announced on stage were not actually new, but instead had been dripped out by Samsung recently. We did get a closer look a previously undisclosed set, a flagship 130-inch Micro RGB TV framed by a giant metal easel with embedded speakers.

Less than a week to go. CES 2026 is right around the corner, and the pre-show hype cycle/ early reveals suggest, yes, there's going to be an awful lot of AI-powered insert-product-category-here alongside, thankfully, some major announcements from the likes of Intel, Sony and NVIDIA. Intel is finally unveiling its Panther Lake (Core Ultra Series 3) chips. The first chips built on Intel's 2nm process could offer a 50 percent performance boost, which is sorely needed amid intense competition. NVIDIA's Jensen Huang is taking the stage for a keynote expected to feature a lot of AI hype, while AMD's Lisa Su will likely counter with new Ryzen 9000-series chips and the latest on AI upscaling tech.