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IFA Berlin 2026 Live: The Biggest Announcements From Samsung, LG and More

IFA 2026 is underway in Berlin, and the product announcements are already coming fast. The massive European tech show doesn’t officially open to the public until Friday, but press events began earlier this week, giving us an early look at the TVs, laptops, wearables, smart home gear and oddly specific appliances headed our way.

More than 1,900 brands are expected at Messe Berlin through Tuesday, including Samsung, LG, Lenovo and Acer. AI will, unsurprisingly, be everywhere, in computers, appliances and probably a few things that absolutely did not need it, alongside robots, new gaming gear and whatever else manages to surprise us on the show floor.

CNET is in Berlin getting hands-on with the biggest products and digging through the chaos to find the stuff actually worth paying attention to. Follow along below for our latest news, first impressions, photos and videos from IFA 2026.

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I thought ChatGPT’s new Stickers feature sounded like peak AI slop — then I made a pack I actually wanted to…

I have developed a fairly strong allergy to the AI slop filling some corners of the internet. It's not that I haven't seen impressive demonstrations of what AI models can do visually; it's just that the baseline creations made by most people are execrable

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Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation

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I thought ChatGPT&rsquo;s new Stickers feature sounded like peak AI slop &mdash; then I made a pack I actually wanted to…

Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation

I thought ChatGPT’s new Stickers feature sounded like peak AI slop — then I made a pack I actually wanted to…