18 Predictions for 2026 - Jakob Nielsen on UX

kept by eddie jan 14

Accelerating AI capabilities will shift focus to autonomous agents and Generative UI, making UX the primary business moat.

How to Create an Effective Prompt for Nano Banana Pro
Experiments with Google's Nano Banana Pro visual reasoning model show that structured, constraint-rich prompts produce better comic book adaptations than vague requests.
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GPT Image 1.5 | Hacker News
OpenAI releases GPT Image 1.5, a cheaper image generation model that improves on its predecessor but still trails competitors like Nano Banana Pro in quality and consistency.
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xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab - Martin Alderson
xAI's GPU rental deals with Anthropic and Google transform it into a datacenter REIT-like business, driven by financial engineering, compute shortages, and infrastructure advantages.
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AI Gateway production index - Vercel
Anthropic leads in spend, Google leads in volume, and agentic workloads now carry 59% of token volume, per Vercel's AI Gateway data from 200K+ teams.
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