Samsung is taking AI out of phones and laptops and placing it directly into the kitchen. At CES 2026, the company plans to unveil refrigerators and other appliances powered by Google Gemini, using cameras and cloud intelligence to track food, manage inventory, and suggest actions. While some design upgrades solve real problems, the deeper push toward cloud based AI inside everyday appliances raises new questions about control, longevity, and whether consumers actually want this level of intelligence watching what they eat.
Pay $2000 for a smart fridge so you can turn it into a $500 dumb fridge. Art of the deal lol
At least with TVs, the reason they are so cheap now is that you’re paying with your data. They create fingerprints of your screen every 10 seconds or so and then sell this information. Essentially, your data subsidises the device.
I imagine, the same happens with smart TVs - but this is just a guess to be hones.