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.
Just redone my kitchen, put a dumb LG fridge/freezer in and deliberately ignored a near identical Samsung one, because the TV I bought five years ago is the last home appliance I will ever own by Samsung, it’s a really simple smart TV, and the the features it has are terrible, has ads in the home screen and keeps asking me to accept new T&Cs that I keep cancelling, no Samsung, I don’t want to change how I use the TV I bought years ago, since that’s when I made the sale contract to own my tv.