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10 Bold Predictions for A.I.’s Year Ahead

Mass adoption, steep contraction, and the fruits of Apple’s waiting game are all part of the coming year in artificial intelligence.

Tim Cook
Among the eight largest companies in the world, Apple is the only one that has not poured hundreds of billions of dollars into data center infrastructure, nor has it attempted to radically reconstruct its offerings to take advantage of the A.I. hype. Photo: Nic Coury/AFP/Getty Images
Ian Krietzberg
January 13, 2026

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Today, we’re going to take one more look at the months to come. I’ve talked to sources, gazed into the crystal ball, and communed with the ghost of Alan Turing in an attempt to distill all the information running through my brain into quantifiable predictions. And so begins an annual tradition here at The Hidden Layer. (As my partner Bill Cohan says, this is not investment advice!)