After a sharp contraction in 2025, near-eye display market revenue is forecast to reach $675 million in 2026, up 12% year-over-year (YoY), according to Omdia.

The broadly defined Foundry 2.0 market, comprising pure-play foundry, non-memory IDM, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT), and photomask fabrication, is projected to surpass USD 360 billion in 2026, according to IDC.

Global PC shipments decreased by 4% YoY in 2Q26 to reach 65 million units, according to Counterpoint Research’s preliminary data.

Worldwide end-user spending on AI models and platforms is projected to total $64 billion in 2026, up 63.4% from $39 billion in 2025, according to Gartner.

New research from Infobip reveals a growing surge in AI-powered fraud and enterprise defenses.

A new study by Juniper Research has revealed that biometric verification will be the fastest-growing modality of digital identity verification, rising from 32.2 billion in 2026 to 70.1 billion in 2030, a growth of 117.6%.

The center of gravity in global retail has shifted East, according to NielsenIQ.

To meet the increasing AI demands for computing power, the competition is intensifying among the Companies to Beat in the AI semiconductor vendor race, according to Gartner.

The global smartphone market is undergoing a structural shift as rising component costs and geopolitical uncertainty push leading manufacturers to move away from low-cost, high-volume strategies and prioritize premium, high-value portfolios, according to Omdia.

Global smartphone shipments fell 4% year-on-year in 2Q26 as the ongoing memory crisis disrupted supply and pushed up component costs, according to Omdia.

Claude Fable 5 has dominated discussions on the social media platform X during the second quarter of 2026, capturing a 19% share in conversations among the top 10 latest frontier Large Language Models (LLMs), according to GlobalData.

The global smartphone market shrank 6.7% year-on-year to 277.5 million units in the second quarter of 2026 (2Q26), according to the preliminary data from IDC.

Mobile network operators worldwide are making significant progress in reducing carbon emissions, according to the GSMA report.

Global smartphone shipments tumbled 11% YoY in 2Q26, reaching the lowest second-quarter levels since 2013, according to preliminary estimates from Counterpoint Research.

The study found that UK teenagers participating in a social media restriction trial reported improvements in sleep, concentration, and family life.

A new Eurobarometer survey shows that Europeans are overwhelmingly concerned about all the risks children face on social media.

A new study by Juniper Research has found that the number of agentic commerce users will reach 1.3 billion by 2031, rising from less than 300 million this year.

Global shipments of PCs in 2Q26 declined 3.6% year-over-year to 65.7 million units, according to Omdia.

Juniper Research released its new Consumer Payments Tech Horizon study.