The Oxford University Press word of the year for 2025 was "rage bait," explained as "online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media content.”To get in on this action, we will make our bold predictions for 2026 - with our own more measured take.

Happy New Year! 2025 was a dynamic year for the high-tech sector, including AI, space, quantum, and PNT, the areas where Xairos play. Here's our perspective:

The foundational need to know our location and time is at the heart of position, navigation, and timing (PNT) infrastructure. For the last half century, PNT and GPS (the US Global Positioning System) have been interchangeable; there are 8 billion GPS receivers in the world – one for every person on Earth - and GPS pervades all aspects of our lives: our location on digital maps and ridesharing apps, commercial and airline navigation, the timestamp on ATM, credit card and stock