The problem the smartphone was invented to solve is now better solved by other devices, so its place in daily life rests on habit rather than necessity.

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• A competitor six months or a year behind the frontier can stay close, because the cost of AI falls more than tenfold every year. JHJensen Huang8 Jan 2026innovation
• A country cannot have radical technological breakthroughs and also refuse to tolerate uncomfortably rich people, because the financial system it resents is what funds the innovation. KJKeyu Jin13 Aug 2025innovation
• A model company may face a winner's curse: it does all the hard innovation and is then one copy away from being commoditised. SNSatya Nadella12 Nov 2025innovation
• A society cannot morally be based on the way evolution works, even though competition is what drives innovation. NLNick Lane7 Sept 2022innovation
• Agent harnesses are only at the beginning, with probably a lot more innovation still to come. BVBen Vinegar30 Jul 2026innovation

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