How AI is about to change our relationship with phones forever

Generative AI will be able to mine your phone for information about you – offering solutions to problems before you’ve even considered them, according to tech boss Cristiano Amon. He tells David Phelan the smartphone is about to become a whole lot smarter...

The Qualcomm boss is a big believer in the benefits of generative AI (Getty)

Great leaps forward in technology mean the future is coming at us fast – and are about to forever change one of our most important relationships: the one with our smartphone.

That is the view of Cristiano Amon, the chief executive of Qualcomm, the tech giant that produces the processors powering almost every phone in the world, bar the iPhone, as well as laptops and VR headsets.

New bespoke chips will not just be about making your phone faster, or adding new experiences, he suggests. Instead, they will fundamentally change how we use our devices, through artificial intelligence.