2026 AI & Ecommerce Predictions with Jo & Max (Agentic Commerce, AI Wearables, The Death of Prompting and more)

In the first episode of The New Frontier in 2026, Max and Jo review their 2025 predictions, highlighting Jo's accurate forecasts regarding energy infrastructure, AI data centers, and Google's market share dip, while Max got half a point for predicting AI translations for pets. They then dive into their predictions for 2026, including the rise of AI-generated social media content and a comeback for human-made content, the year of personalization in e-commerce and AI applications, the prominence of AI wearables and hardware, interactive video and world models, autonomous scientific discovery, and a digital PR renaissance. They also discuss the rise of voice AI, AI consolidation through mergers and acquisitions, the takeover of agentic shopping by Rufus, the use of AI clones by influencers, and the shift from prompting to AI-native apps that proactively monitor user behavior.