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The best tech announced at CES 2026 so far

The CES show floor officially closes its doors at the end of tomorrow, but that hasn't slowed the flood of announcements and reveals coming out of Las Vegas. If you're struggling to stay on top of all the new tech, gadgets, concepts, and AI-powered devices as day three of CES gets underway, we've rounded up […]

Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A  —  Artificial intelligence data platform startup Protege Health Inc. today announced that it has raised $30 million in new funding.

The European Commission orders X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual images (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)

Louise Breusch Rasmussen / Reuters:
The European Commission orders X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual images  —  The European Commission has ordered Elon Musk's social media platform X to retain all internal documents and data relating to its built …

Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users, after previously requiring a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users, after previously requiring a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription  —  Besides previewing the future of Gmail today, Google is making a number of AI features that previously required a subscription free for personal accounts.

Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail that shows users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US "trusted testers" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail that shows users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US “trusted testers”  —  The new AI Inbox replaces the traditional list of emails with a personalized summary of what to do and what to catch up on.