Stefanini Group, a global technology consulting firm, has signed on as the company's first Impact Partner for 2026. Under this strategic partnership, Stefanini will participate in TechTalk Summit events across the USA throughout 2026, with access to proprietary audience research designed to maximize the relevance and ROI of their presentations.

The Impact Partner program represents a new approach to technology event sponsorship. Rather than simply providing speaking opportunities, TechTalk will conduct comprehensive surveys of its audience—comprising over 70,000 technology decision-makers—on behalf of Stefanini. The resulting intelligence will inform Stefanini's presentation content, ensuring sessions address the specific challenges, priorities, and investment plans of attendees.

By Daniel W. Rasmus, Serious Insights

It was a pleasure to correspond with June Zhu, the visionary CEO of ChargerGoGo, to discuss the evolving landscape of mobile charging and the launch of their ambitious new platform, GoGoSpark. As urban environments become increasingly data-driven, Zhu is positioning ChargerGoGo not just as a hardware provider, but as a critical layer of “connected infrastructure” for local venues. 

Our conversation delved into how AI-powered decision support and the distributed charging networks are creating a “post-work” entrepreneurship model, where smart hardware and real-time analytics do the heavy lifting for small business owners.

By Robert Enderle for TG Daily

In his latest analysis, tech analyst Rob Enderle explores AI's pivotal 2026 landscape: the explosive rise of agentic AI turning tools into autonomous teammates, amid a "supersonic tsunami" of intelligent automation. Yet this wave brings sharp fragmentation, severe hardware scarcity (HBM, DDR5 shortages inflating costs), and unfulfilled promises like the AI-PC revolution and AGI hype. Enderle warns of jagged intelligence, talent gaps, and execution challenges while highlighting winners who orchestrate AI effectively. A must-read for navigating AI's real-world reckoning.

By Daniel W. Rasmus, Serious Insights

In 2026, enterprise AI will stop behaving like a feature and start behaving like infrastructure. This is the core assertion about the evolution of AI agents from our 2026 State of AI: Observations and Recommendations Report, which was sharply reinforced this week by a press release from nexios.ai. That shift isn’t just about more AI in more places. It’s about organizations moving from using models to operating with intelligence. The moment AI becomes infrastructure, with all the associated debt, drift, audit trails, and politics that infrastructure implies, it also becomes fundamental to how an organization works.

By Daniel W. Rasmus, Serious Insights

The reaction to Claude’s new Cowork feature in public markets says as much about investor psychology as it does about what Anthropic shipped. For months, software investors have been living with a background fear that “AI inside the app” is just a temporary comfort blanket. Then an agent shows up that extends beyond workflows, sitting above them to facilitate intent as input, acting as a competent colleague — starting to demonstrate that AI is no longer personal chat but actual personal assistance.

By. Rex M. Lee, Investigative Tech Journalist | Security Advisor | Board Member, Clean Data Alliance

Rex Lee explains how modern sports betting is a structurally loss-driven ecosystem where built-in house edges, parlay math, addictive app design, and AI-driven surveillance ensure most bettors lose money while platforms profit not only from wagers but also from continuous data extraction and behavioral manipulation.

By. Rex M. Lee, Security Advisor | My Smart Privacy | TechTalk Summits Contributor

Security Advisor Rex Lee explains that despite strong cryptography, most blockchain and crypto failures come from traditional human, software, and governance weaknesses—not advanced technologies like AI or quantum computing.

By Daniel W. Rasmus

Many factors can derail “trends”, and a bias toward seeing a trend can blind trend watchers from recognizing other patterns, especially contradictory ones. The year-end trend posts are less about prophecy than pattern recognition. The useful question isn’t “What’s next?” It’s “What changed in the operating conditions that will impact decisions I make in the near-term?” For 2026, the answer is blunt: AI stops being a tool story and becomes an infrastructure story. That shift pulls budgets, governance, architecture, skills, geopolitics, and energy into the same room, and they don’t necessarily all get along.

By Rex M. Lee, Security Advisor & Tech Journalist

Security Advisor and Tech Journalist Rex Lee explains how Rush, Queensrÿche, Orwell, Tron, and The Matrix foresaw today’s AI-driven surveillance state.

By Rex M. Lee, National Security Advisor

National Security Advisor Rex Lee explains how the modern influence economy has fused with fraud, bot networks, and foreign operations—creating a weaponized digital ecosystem that manipulates narratives, distorts reality, and threatens national security.