Getting Super-Agents This Year, Says IBM Roundup

Looking at new roundups from established sources in IT can show us where we are on the road to artificial general intelligence or AGI, which, to those unfamiliar with the term, starts to approach what Ray Kurzweil called “The Singularity,” and what I think could be described this way: new, multi-purpose AIs start doing things better than us, conquering multi-step tasks, taking initiative, driving a design process, and generally working unsupervised in any number of roles.

That’s front and center in a brand new survey of current tech trends that IBM is releasing for 2026 under the banner: “The trends that will shape AI and tech in 2026.” Staff writer Annabelle Nicoud takes us through a dizzying array of advances that will certainly grab headlines in the year to come.

One is quantum computing and its obvious boost to overall digital brain-power. The utilities of quantum over classical…