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Qualcomm’s CEO says AI agents will be the new app, and 40 new devices are coming

Qualcomm’s chief executive thinks the app as you know it is on the way out, and that the phone in your pocket is about to lose its place at the centre of your digital life.

‘Agents are going to be the new app,’ Cristiano Amon told CNBC’s The Tech Download podcast. Apps are ‘not dead,’ he said, ‘but apps are going to change.’

The argument is that AI agents which act on your behalf, pulling a bank balance, rescheduling a meeting, paying a bill from a QR code, become the thing people deal with, while apps turn into services those agents quietly call on. Amon called 2026 ‘the year of agents’ and predicted every operating-system vendor will build an agent orchestrator into its software within months.

40 new devices, and glasses to rival the phone

To match the shift, Qualcomm is working on more than 40 designs for new AI...

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Report warns employees are increasingly asking AI questions they previously have asked their co-workers

* Report finds 74% of regular AI users now pose questions to AI instead of human colleagues * New workers are missing out on vital social interactions for company culture * Employees say they feel more self-sufficient and comfortable making decisions While the jury is still out on whether AI could be set

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Garmin’s Screenless Cirqa Health Tracker Will Be Available This Week

Tech companies know we want less screen time, so they’re making new gadgets that track our metrics without forcing us to stare at a display. If you’re after a screenless health-monitoring wearable, you now have an abundance of options: the Whoop 5.0, Polar Loop, Luna Band, Fitbit

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Nintendo Thinks Your Portion of Its Tariff Refund Windfall Should Be $0

Nintendo is fighting in court over whether it should have to share with customers any refund it receives from the US government for tariff fees, arguing against returning money to consumers who paid higher prices for its products. In March, Nintendo sued the federal government for its share of about

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NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Sent Back Some Awesome Photos of Mars

A common road trip activity is stopping at a roadside attraction to see something really cool. It turns out that NASA spacecraft do this from time to time as well. The Psyche spacecraft, on its way to the asteroid belt to study its namesake asteroid, made a stop by Mars

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Report warns employees are increasingly asking AI questions they previously have asked their co-workers

Garmin’s Screenless Cirqa Health Tracker Will Be Available This Week

Nintendo Thinks Your Portion of Its Tariff Refund Windfall Should Be $0

NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Sent Back Some Awesome Photos of Mars