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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crowds flooded the freshly opened showroom floors on day two of CES 2026 and were met by thousands of robots, AI companions, ...

Mustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI. Previously, he was CEO of Inflection AI, and cofounder and Head of Applied AI at DeepMind. He is the best-selling author of The Coming Wave: Technology, ...

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