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AI humanoid robots inch their way toward the workforce

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, the cost of humanoid robots is high, and the ability for mechatronics makers to achieve human-like sensory capabilities and mobile flexibility remains challenging. The key to truly scaling beyond initial deployments is having a collaboratively safe robot, which Agility has made a pledge to release in 2026, Brown says.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Small language models are also better for edge and mobile deployments, as with Apples recent mobile AI announcements. Anshu Bhardwaj, SVP and COO at Walmart Global Technology says that consumers arent the only ones who stand to benefit from mobile AI. Now, it will evolve again, says Malhotra. Agents are the next phase, he says.

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

By 2026, hyperscalers will have spent more on AI-optimized servers than they will have spent on any other server until then, Lovelock predicts. “We have companies trying to build out the data centers that will run gen AI and trying to train AI,” he says. Next year, that spending is not going away. growth in device spending.

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AI-native software engineering may be closer than developers think

CIO Business Intelligence

By 2026, “there will start to be more productive, mainstream levels of adoption, where people have kind of figured out the strengths and weaknesses and the use cases where they can go more to an autonomous AI agent,” he says.

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Will the end of Windows 10 accelerate CIO interest in AI PCs?

CIO Business Intelligence

Within two years, it will be virtually impossible to buy a PC, tablet, laptop, or mobile phone without AI, John-David Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner, recently told CIO.com. OEMs that have shipped or are readying AI PCs for 2025 or 2026 include Dell, Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and Microsoft.

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Why digital transformation starts with an intelligent network infrastructure

Network World

And with IDC concluding that network security and data security are among the key priorities of businesses in the next few years (with global spending seeing a 13% CAGR between 2021 and 2026) modernizing the network infrastructure is a must.

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5G is on pace to be the fastest-deployed mobile communication tech in history

Tech Republic Cloud

Ericsson predicts that it will penetrate every market on the globe by 2026. 5G devices and services are appearing at an ever-faster rate.

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