Jan 8, 2026 4 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ Holographic AI Companionship

Plus: Lenovo AI Against Microsoft, Sex Robots Get AI

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AI is no longer competing on features. It’s competing on intimacy, agency, and ownership of the human interface.

COMPANIONSHIP

CES 2026 Normalized Holographic AI Companionship

👀 What’s happening: CES 2026 saw multiple companies demo holographic AI companions styled as anime characters, not as jokes or art pieces but as consumer products. Razer turned its Project Ava assistant into a desktop hologram. Others like Dipal and Lepro Ami pushed non gaming versions framed as companions or soulmates. This cluster felt coordinated, not accidental.

🌍 How this hits reality: AI chat companions already dominate usage metrics on mobile, but CES moved them into physical space. A camera, a holographic enclosure, and a persistent avatar changes expectations. Always on presence plus visual embodiment raises attachment risk, data intimacy, and hardware lock in. This is no longer a $20 app. It is a $500 object on your desk.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Holographic companions signal the next consumer AI wedge. Embodied, persistent, and emotionally tuned systems will drive demand before regulation or norms catch up, pulling compute, sensors, and subscription economics into personal space faster than expected.

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COPILOT

Lenovo Qira Challenges Microsoft Copilot

👀 What’s happening: At CES 2026, Lenovo and Motorola introduced Qira, a system-level personal ambient intelligence that lives across PCs, phones, tablets, and wearables. Unlike app-based assistants, Qira is always present, context-aware, and embedded into the OS. It observes activity, carries memory across devices, and acts locally or offline when needed.

🌍 How this hits reality: This pushes AI from a window you open into infrastructure you live inside. Qira handles writing, meetings, summaries, and next-step suggestions directly on-device, while syncing context across screens. That overlaps heavily with Microsoft Copilot, but shifts power toward OEM-controlled intelligence, not OS-level overlays. Control of defaults, latency, and data locality now matter more than model size.

🛎️ Key takeaway: If Qira ships smoothly, Copilot faces real pressure at the device layer. The competition shifts from features to who owns ambient context, system hooks, and daily continuity across hardware ecosystems.

SEX

AI Sex Robots Start Competing With Human Intimacy

👀 What’s happening: At CES 2026, Lovense introduced Emily, a full size AI sex robot built for sexual interaction with memory. Silicone skin and a poseable body matter less than persistence. Emily remembers preferences, conversations, and emotional cues, turning intimacy into a continuous experience rather than a one time encounter.

🌍 How this hits reality: This directly pressures assumptions around human exclusivity in sexual and emotional labor. A 4000 to 8000 dollar system that adapts without fatigue, rejection, or negotiation changes comparison baselines. Dating markets already strained by apps and AI filters now face a substitute that optimizes for availability, affirmation, and behavioral reinforcement.

🛎️ Key takeaway: As AI sex robots improve, they do not replace women broadly, but they do compete on specific dimensions. Expect shifts in relationship expectations, rising asymmetry in intimacy markets, and growing tension between biological relationships and software optimized attachment.

QUICK HITS

OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Health, a dedicated space for health conversations with optional data integrations, set to roll out in the coming weeks.
Ford unveiled an AI assistant and a next-generation BlueCruise system at CES 2026.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said AI coding tools are enabling CEOs to prototype ideas themselves through “vibe coding,” reshaping how early product ideas are explored.
X’s Grok chatbot has sparked global regulatory backlash for generating potentially illegal deepfakes, while US enforcement remains uncertain.
Dell acknowledged that consumers aren’t buying PCs for AI features and is shifting away from an AI-first PC narrative in 2026.

TRENDING

Daily AI Launches

Amarsia has launched the Conversation API, handling backend storage and state for AI chats to help low-code builders ship faster.
Market Terminal has launched an affordable platform giving independent traders access to institutional-grade data and AI analysis.
Dessix has launched a visual workspace that replaces prompt guessing with logical context building to align AI with your goals.
Planelo has launched a developer workspace that syncs across devices and turns ideas into API endpoints for automation.

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