Technology news for today, Wednesday, January 7, 2026.

Good morning. Here is the essential technology news for today, Wednesday, January 7, 2026.

The biggest story continues to be CES 2026 in Las Vegas, which enters its second massive day of announcements, shifting focus to home entertainment, gaming, and automotive tech.

Here are the top headlines:

🔥 Top Story: CES Day 2 – The Giants Speak

After Intel and Nvidia dominated Day 1, today is about the consumer electronics giants.

• Samsung’s “AI Home” Vision: Samsung’s keynote centered entirely on integrating AI into the home. They unveiled the Bespoke 4-Door Flex Refrigerator with AI Family Hub+, which uses internal cameras to recognize up to 100 different food items and automatically generate shopping lists or suggest recipes based on what’s expiring.¹ They also teased “Galaxy AI 2.0” ahead of next month’s phone launch.

   

   

• Sony’s PS5 “Pro” Tease & Afeela Update: While rumors of a PS6 delay circulated yesterday, Sony used its stage to officially tease the long-rumored PlayStation 5 Pro, promising enhanced ray tracing and AI-driven upscaling for existing games, targeting a Holiday 2026 release. They also showed the latest prototype of their Afeela EV (built with Honda), confirming it will use Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon Ride chassis for autonomous driving.

• AMD Strikes Back: Countering Intel’s “Panther Lake” launch yesterday, AMD announced its new Ryzen 9000 Series mobile processors (Zen 6 architecture). AMD claims their top-tier chip offers better integrated graphics performance for gaming laptops than Intel’s new offering, heating up the laptop processor war.

🚗 Automotive Tech at CES

Cars are now gadgets, and CES proves it.

• BMW’s Augmented Reality Windshield: BMW showed off a near-production version of its “Panoramic Vision” display—a full-width heads-up display on the windshield that uses augmented reality to highlight navigation markers, pedestrians, and hazards in real-time.²

   

   

• Mercedes-Benz Virtual Assistant: Mercedes unveiled a hyper-realistic, AI-powered virtual assistant avatar for its cars, built on the Unity gaming engine, capable of complex natural language conversations and emotion detection.³

   

   

🇮🇳 India Tech Update

Following yesterday’s massive mid-range smartphone battle, the focus shifts to enterprise and infrastructure today.

• Infosys AI Push: Indian IT giant Infosys announced a massive initiative today to reskill over 250,000 employees in Generative AI technologies by the end of 2026. They also launched a new AI-first service suite called “Infosys Topaz GenAI.”

• Phone War Fallout: Social media in India is currently dominated by early comparisons between yesterday’s Redmi Note 15 and Realme 16 Pro. Early reviewer consensus suggests Realme has the edge in zoom photography, while Redmi is winning on battery efficiency. Both phones go on their first sale tomorrow, January 8th.