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CES 2026 shows a significant shift in personal technology towards deep, contextual AI integration.

The investor conversation around it has matured, with the focus no longer on whether a startup uses AI, but on whether it shapes how the business operates.

Semiconductor chip design is the main value driver, contributing up to 50 per cent of the value addition.

The CES 2026 showcase highlights the future of tech with major announcements in AI, next-generation chips, and more.

India is seeking more accountability from businesses and is quite stringent about complacency stemming from digital hoarding, unvetted vendor access, and slow breach reporting responses.

AI-driven cyberattacks drive enterprises toward stronger, data-centric cybersecurity measures for 2026 against generative AI and cloud threats.

In 2025, we saw technology shifting towards Agentic AI, crypto space getting bigger, and an all-round push for self-dependence in tech in India.

India's AI landscape is poised for hypergrowth in 2026, transitioning from a phase of experimentation to one of foundational infrastructure.

The sector is being defined by less speculative model-building and more by deployment, defensibility, and real-world integration.

Apart from accommodating AI-led consumption demands, the government aims to position India as a global data centre hub.

Indian businesses, specifically MSMEs, can benefit from what appears to be a very effective tool against financial fraud and cybercrimes.

The smart eyewear market in India is emerging with a dual focus on consumer/content and significant enterprise adoption, with Lenskart and Reliance Jio preparing to launch AI-powered, India-centric smart glasses.

The GPT Store flips the script for traditional dev shops, shifting from people-based billing to outcome-based models.

Jio Platforms filed 1,037 international patents in 2024-25 fiscal year followed by TVS Motor Co (238), CSIR (70), IIT Madras (44), Ola Electric Mobility (31) and others.

Achieving self sufficiency in memory chips is a five-ten-plus years journey for India as its strength lies in the massive consumption power and growing role as a global assembly hub

Memory chips constitute 10-15 per cent of server costs and the increasing cost of the chips will directly raise capex for India's large AI/datacenter builds and slow rollout. Advanced memory prices are likely to surge by another 50 per cent from current levels through most of 2026.

Decoding India's efforts to move from a domestic storage facility to a global data centre hub.

The IT rules mandate the OTT platforms to self-classify into five age-based categories

John Roese, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer, Dell Technologies, predicts that the demand for robust governance frameworks and private, controlled AI environments will become undeniable, urging the industry to build on both internal and external AI guardrails

New AI updates bring rapid innovation and improving AI capabilities for businesses and end users globally.

CP Plus and Qualcomm bring AI-enabled, edge-processing video security solutions to the Indian market, leveraging Qualcomm's Dragonwing processors and Insight Platform.

By 2030, the company plans to generate an additional one million direct, indirect, induced and seasonal jobs.

With platforms like Temple, clearly there is scope for more experimental devices which are easy to use and actually provide some useful insights to users.

The government said it had decided not to make the pre- installation mandatory for mobile manufacturers given Sanchar Saathi's increasing acceptance

The SIM binding mandate has divided opinion: supporters welcome the better security, while critics argue that it is causing unnecessary disruption.

Apple says that the country should impose a penalty on the basis of the India revenue of a specific unit that has breached the antitrust law.