Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon identifies 2026 as the “year of agents,” marking a shift from smartphone-centric app usage to an agent-centric economy where AI assistants autonomously observe, interpret, and act across devices. He describes the upcoming 6G network as one of the biggest wireless transitions ever, functioning as the first AI-native wireless network that integrates connectivity, distributed computing, and environmental sensing. Amon predicts
