Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2026
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:29.6 | Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, January 2nd. Happy New Year. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm Belle Lynn for The Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:42.3 | Today we're wrapping up our deep dive, exploring how the biggest shifts in technology will play out in 2026. |
| 0:50.3 | From AI to space and neurotechnology, there's no shortage of change happening in every realm of tech. |
| 0:59.0 | Much of it will have a direct impact on us, as our tech team predicts big shifts will happen in healthcare, the world of cybersecurity, and even how we access the internet. |
| 1:11.3 | So how should we make sense of all these rapid shifts? |
| 1:15.3 | And how will they change our daily lives? |
| 1:18.3 | We have WSJ Personal Tech columnist Nicole Nguyen and WSJ Tech columnist |
| 1:24.3 | and co-host of the Bold Names podcast, Christopher Mims, here with us to break it all down. |
| 1:34.7 | It's a Wall Street Journal tradition to look ahead at the coming year and predict what's ahead in tech. |
| 1:41.5 | So let's start with you, Nicole. What do you think will take place in the realm of |
| 1:45.9 | AI and health? Well, first, there's definitely going to be a mental health reckoning for a lot of the |
| 1:51.9 | most popular AI makers. We saw from a variety of tragic cases and also lawsuits that for people |
| 1:59.3 | struggling with mental health issues, chatting with |
| 2:01.9 | AI can be dangerous. It can validate troubling ideas and paranoia, encourage delusions in some |
| 2:08.7 | cases. And so state laws are finally pushing AI developers to do something about this. Starting |
| 2:15.9 | New Year's Day, for example, a new California |
| 2:18.3 | regulation mandates that AI has to stop the conversation when it detects self-harm. And it also |
| 2:24.7 | compels AI to send break reminders every three hours to users under 18, because research has |
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