t's that time of the year again and the tech world heads to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show.

It's been a bit subdued this year, since Trump's tariff plans could drastically raise the cost of hardware from China and elsewhere, but the usual suspects unveiled this year's kit.

Chip vendors and laptop slingers have been out in force hoping to piggyback the AI wave and this year's upgrade cycle, and there's been the usual grab bag of wacky ideas from plucky young startups. You can see the full discussion below.

Chewing the fat we have our editor-in-chief Chris Williams, reporters Brandon Vigliarolo and Tobias Mann, and hosted by Iain Thomson. Nicole Hemsoth Prickett produced the episode.

It's been a rough week for the AI industry as a series of stories have showed the latest LLM technology in a less than flattering light.

For example, it appears that AI makes workers less productive, mainly because they haven't been trained how to use it. Gartner, usually a tech cheerleader, has pointed out that expensive AI PCs don't appear to be selling. But there's still Microsoft's latest AI enthusiasm from Ignite - Redmond has to recoup that $10 billion investment in ChatGPT somehow.

There's some spirited discussion, and not a few chuckles on this week's Kettle episode, that you can watch in full below. Chewing the fat we have our editor Chris Williams, reporters Brandon Vigliarolo and Tom Claburn.

Join The Register's Editor in Chief, Chris Williams along with Reg reporters, Tom Claburn, Iain Thompson, and Brandon Vigliarolo as they unpack the possibilities.