MWC 2026: What Every Developer Building AI Features Should Know

I spent three days walking the halls of Fira Gran Via in Barcelona last week. I came back with sore feet and one clear takeaway: AI assistants are the default now. I work on Alexa+ and I spend my days thinking and prototyping about how AI ( and voice) fit into people's actual lives. How to merge context, multi-turn conversations, smart home with stuff that matters at 7am when you're making coffee. I'm building every day trying to find the optimal architecture for my agents. And what I saw in Barcelona was in a way confirming what I think: There is a convergence. Xiaomi, Samsung, LG, Lenovo, Honor, TECNO, Deutsche Telekom, Origen... they all arrived at the same vision. The Browser Analogy Remember when every company shipped a browser? You stopped building for Netscape, a specific browser, or even just one OS. You started building to web standards. Same thing is happening with AI assistants. Many Booths Had an AI Assistant And I'm not talking about chatbots or summarisation demos. These