The 2026 Predictions Consensus: Agents Go Enterprise, Science Accelerates, and Nobody Agrees on Who's Winning

New Year's Day brought a flood of AI predictions from researchers, founders, and executives. Strip away the noise and two themes dominate: agents moving into real enterprise workflows, and AI as a scientific research accelerant.

Every New Year's Day produces a glut of predictions, and this one was no exception. But sifting through the forecast deluge reveals a striking consensus on two fronts — and genuine disagreement on a third.

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