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Amon predicts an agent-driven phone replacement cycle

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Claim

The newsletter reports Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon forecasting always-on, 100-billion-parameter phone models by 2028 and a new agent-led device cycle.

Reported metric: 100B parameters; by 2028

Reporting date: 2026-10-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to October 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the October 13 issue (sources.news)

Original summary of Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s October 13, 2026 reporting. Linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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Welcome to October 13, 2026

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Cristiano Amon

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Welcome to October 13, 2026

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Amon predicts an agent-driven phone replacement cycle
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-10-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-10-13-phone-forecast
Claim: The newsletter reports Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon forecasting always-on, 100-billion-parameter phone models by 2028 and a new agent-led device cycle.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to October 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-october-13-2026
- Source linked by the October 13 issue — https://sources.news/p/qualcomm-ceo-ai-phone
This citation does not imply independent verification of linked-source claims.

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