2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions — With Reed Albergotti

Let's look back at 2025 and anticipate what's coming in 2026. We'll do it with Semaphore Technology editor Reed Albergati right after this. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed and nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond. It's the holiday season, which means one thing. We take a look back at what happened over the past year and say, what's next?

And if we can be right, you know, maybe three or four times out of like the 90,000 predictions we'll make. uh I'm sure we'll celebrate it next year. So uh joining us as always is uh or actually um joining us in key moments in history shall we say is uh 74 technology editor Reed Albergati. Reed, great to see you. It's always good to be here.

I kind of emailed you and said let's do predictions, but I I'd love to hear just your recap of of 2025. I mean is there is it's been a crazy year, so much funding, commitments, back and forth. What would you say is like sort of the defining characteristic of the past year? Yeah, I think, excuse me, I I think that is one of them. I think the the infrastructure, you know, sort of questions and just the the sheer scale of it is has been probably like the big topic of conversation.

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