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highplainsdem

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Wed Jun 3, 2026, 10:21 AM Wednesday

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices [View all]

From UK tech magazine The Register yesterday, about Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon's keynote speech at COMPUTEX 2026.

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/02/qualcomm-ai-agents-will-be-as-transparent-as-they-will-be-inescapable/5249894

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“If you have smart glasses, they see what you see, so the connectivity needs to enable a very fast uplink,” he said. “6G is going to make all of us into walking cameras in this world.”

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It doesn’t stop there. If Amon is to be believed, realtime AI analysis of 6G radio waves will allow for even more pervasive prediction models.

Each radio connection, he explains, will be like a radar, and by tracking and triangulating hundreds or millions of these connections, network operators will be able to generate a digital twin of your neighborhood, city, and eventually country.

“You're going to detect on every road, every car, every bicycle, every truck, every pedestrian,” he explained. “You can actually identify those objects.”

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The next paragraph has his "Resistance is futile" remark.
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