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Code for America’s 2026 Government AI Landscape Assessment evaluates states’ AI readiness, highlighting progress made within the past year, across four stages: readiness, piloting, implementation and impact.

Chinese market research firm Sigmaintell expects Apple to be the only company to see growth in the laptop market this year. Overall, Sigmaintel predicts global notebook shipments will reach 181.1 million units this year, a decline of 8%. That drop will, in part, be caused by memory and component shortages and also by slowing market demand. That’s going to damage all of the notebook vendors, bar Apple,.  Apple laptop sales expected to rise more than 20% Sigmaintell calculates Apple will ship 28 million laptop in the year, up 21.7% from 2025. This puts Apple in third place in laptop shipments, a demand the company will be able to meet despite component shortages because of the efficient use of memory inherent to its systems. That memory efficiency acts as a protection against the impact of climbing costs, even as competitors struggle with the affects on their business. Apple’s incoming CEO, John Ternan, is being presented as a hardware man, so he will no doubt be pleased to experience th

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