PredictionsSutskever’s Fate, OpenAI’s Next Deal, A Hit Robot—and 13 Other Predictions for 2026
No one in Silicon Valley gets wealthy or powerful by dwelling on the past. Rather, the brightest minds within tech often outshine the competition by obsessing about the future. We like to get in on the game too. In keeping with annual tradition, we’re publishing below our best educated guesses on what’ll happen in 2026: what Microsoft buys, what Amazon discards, what robot goes mainstream, and 12 other pieces of prognostication. (Over the last few days, we also thought aloud about Apple’s AI...