Jensen Huang will take the stage today, Jan. 5, at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT to deliver his 90-minute keynote, and the event will livestream on YouTube. CNET is reporting live from the ground to capture all the announcements in real time.

CES 2026, the annual consumer tech conference held in Las Vegas, is here. And lucky for you, we have TechCrunch editors and reporters on the ground to cover the news, scout out the interesting, weird,

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At CES 2026, Jensen Huang said Nvidia is scaling full AI systems as reasoning, agents, and physical AI drive exploding compute, power, and memory demand.

On day 2 of CES, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, NVIDIA, and Siemens announced efforts to speed up development of nuclear fusion by way of AI.

The biggest buzzword of the night was “physical AI,” Nvidia’s term for AI systems that don’t just generate content but actually act. These models are trained in virtual environments using synthetic data, then deployed into physical machines once they’ve learned how the world works.

Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya and his team attended Nvidia’s ( NVDA) CES 2026 keynote and financial analyst Q&A session on January 5. Following the event, they updated their opinion on NVDA stock in a research note shared with TheStreet.