Robotics at CES, AI Data Center Spending, and Cybersecurity Outlook | TSG Ep. 995
Techstrong Gang
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07-Jan-2026
Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Mitch Ashley, Jon Swartz and Teri Robinson discuss the rapid pace of robotics development showcased this week at the CES conference, highlighting how advances in hardware, autonomy and applied use cases are accelerating adoption.
The gang then examines the scale of investment flowing into data centers built to run artificial intelligence workloads before turning to whether cybersecurity spending is likely to increase in 2026 as organizations prepare for expanding threat surfaces.
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