Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the rise of AI agents could bring a new wave of companies into consumer electronics.

As AI moves from chatbots to agents that can act on a user’s behalf, Amon says phones, smart glasses and other wearable devices could become the main way people interact with the technology.

“The devices that we wear become endpoints for agents,” he told CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal.

That could also create a new source of data for AI companies. Amon says smart glasses and other agent-driven devices could generate real-world information at a scale “exponentially larger” than the data used to train today’s models.

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