Summary:  Accelerating AI capabilities will shift focus from raw intelligence to autonomous agents and Generative UI, making UX the primary business moat. Multimodal integration and physical AI will revolutionize workflows, rendering static interfaces and single-purpose tools obsolete. However, progress faces hurdles like compute shortages and a widening class divide between premium and free-tier users. Let’s peek into Jakob’s crystal ball to see what’s ahead for 2026. (Nano

6 themes for UX in 2025 | Testing new AI with your own challenging tasks | AI middling at analyzing usability tests | AI’s impact on UX jobs

Using AI to repurpose content into additional formats | Cheatsheet with AI prompts for user research | Worst UI ever | Flexible displays

OpenAI Canvas  heralds hybrid UI for AI | Evaluating AI video models in pairwise quality comparisons | AI-created podcast | AI translation

Podcast created by AI | What people say vs. do relative to product recommendations | Metrics that incentivize the wrong behavior

AI won’t replace human creativity, it will amplify it. Forget mass-market entertainment; the true revolution is in hyper-targeted content.

Oral tradition, writing and printing, and newly developing human-AI co-created media differ along multiple dimensions.