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Razer turned sci-fi into reality at CES 2026 with a holographic AI desk buddy that feels straight out of the future. Their new take on Project Ava brings a customizable AI companion to life right on your desk, ready to chat and interact. Let’s dive in!
In today’s insights:
Razer introduces AI assistants as desk companions
Google brings Gemini deeper into Gmail
ChatGPT’s next steps into personal health
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Evolving AI: Razer showed a holographic AI desk companion with customizable personas at CES 2026.
Key Points:
Project Ava moved from a PC assistant into a physical hologram device for desks.
Users can switch between anime-style, human, and esports-inspired AI personas.
The platform is model-agnostic, with plans beyond Grok, including ChatGPT.
Details:
Razer unveiled a new version of Project Ava at CES 2026, giving its AI assistant a physical form. The device is a small tube that displays a 5.5-inch animated hologram avatar and connects to a PC via USB-C. It includes microphones, a speaker, and a camera so the AI can talk, listen, and react to its surroundings. Users can choose from multiple personas, ranging from anime-inspired characters to a digital version of League of Legends star Faker. Ava can handle reminders, gaming advice, and real-time commentary, with plans for user-created avatars and deeper esports coaching features later.
Why It Matters:
Project Ava is a sign that “AI assistant” is turning into hardware you park next to your monitor, with a camera and mics sharing the same context you’re in. For gamers, that can mean loadout picks, settings tweaks, quick reminders, and coaching-style prompts without tabbing out, and Razer is already taking $20 reservations with an estimated second-half 2026 ship window. For everyone else, it makes privacy feel like a spec sheet item: more context can make the helper feel smarter, yet it relies on sensors, so mute controls and a physical shutter start to look non-negotiable.
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Evolving AI: Google is rolling out default-on Gemini AI features in Gmail that summarize threads and draft replies.
Key Points:
Gmail will auto-summarize long email threads using Gemini, with some features enabled by default.
New Suggested Replies use full conversation context to generate one-click responses.
Users who don’t want these features must actively opt out.
Details:
Google is expanding Gemini across Gmail with AI-generated summaries, upgraded Suggested Replies, and improved proofreading. Long email threads can now open with a short recap of key points, saving time in busy inboxes. AI Overviews are appearing inside Gmail, echoing Google Search behavior. The rollout happens in phases, and some tools will be switched on automatically for Gmail’s 3 billion users.
Why It Matters:
Email is sliding from “messages” to “assistant mode”: Gmail can summarize long threads, draft context-aware one-tap replies, and even test an AI Inbox that turns your list into suggested tasks, with parts of this rolling out switched on for many users. For anyone in sales, support, or ops, that’s less time rereading the same 40-reply chain and more time acting on the next step, but it changes your workflow too: you’ll start trusting summaries and suggested replies as your first pass, then drop into the originals when stakes are high. The new muscle to build is simple: quick verify before you send, and know where the opt-out lives if you handle sensitive conversations.
Evolving AI: OpenAI is testing a separate Health space inside ChatGPT for personal health questions, following heavy daily health use.
Key Points:
ChatGPT Health lets users connect medical records and wellness apps for more personal health queries.
The move follows OpenAI saying earlier this week that millions already use ChatGPT for health every day.
OpenAI says Health chats will have extra privacy rules and won’t train core models.
Details:
OpenAI is testing ChatGPT Health, a separate area inside ChatGPT where users can link medical records and wellness apps. Earlier this week, OpenAI said millions of people already use ChatGPT for health questions every day, making this a logical next step. The Health space aims to help people prep for doctor appointments, compare insurance options, and build wellness plans or workout routines, all within one place. OpenAI says these chats won’t train its main AI models and stresses it is not for diagnosis or treatment. Access depends on region and app availability.
Why It Matters:
Recent numbers show tens of millions already turn to ChatGPT every day with health questions rather than heading straight to a doctor, which makes this dedicated Health feature feel like a natural step rather than a random experiment. What people should really think about is how much of their actual health data they are comfortable tying to a chatbot, even with privacy walls, especially when experts still warn that AI health responses can miss the mark or drift into risky territory.
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