Francis deSouza is Google Cloud’s new chief operating officer. He co-founded AI research startup Synth Labs last year after numerous stints at Symantec, Illumina and others (per CRN). Salesforce moves Slack Chief Revenue Officer Kaylin Voss over to be EVP of Agentforce and Data Cloud.

There were plenty of AI announcements at CES 2025 and while some were charming -- like the robot vacuum that can pick up dirty socks, or TVs that can generate recipes -- none of them has the power to transform society like Nvidia.

This was the most anticipated moment of the Nvidia event, but not the only big announcement. The AI computing company integral to the rise of generative AI had many more cards to

CES 2025, which wrapped up on Friday, marked the first year I found more laptops than ever that hit this Holy Grail metric — and they did so without making the sacrifices often considered necessary to achieve a light form factor.

From a laptop with a screen that grows to a 1-kilogram ultraportable to the world's most powerful 14-inch workstation, these are the laptops that grabbed our attention at CES.

In all the hustle and bustle of the showroom floor, it's easy to lose yourself in the mix of new and exciting products that dominate CES 2025. But don't forget the chips and silicon that kicked off this year's event — we didn't.

There was a glut of fresh laptops at CES 2025, powered by a new generation of CPUs and GPUs. But only the best new notebooks made this list.

To say that CES was a PC show this year is an understatement. We spent time with dozens of laptops in Las Vegas, and these are our favorites across nine key categories.