Our annual top emerging technologies for 2026 include the 10 most important technologies reshaping how people live, work, and buy. Like last year, AI continues to dominate, but this year we identify new applied AI technologies, such as agentic commerce and autonomous transportation, that consumers and others will experience directly, while technologies like agentic software development and physical AI will help innovators build the future that consumers will soon experience. Lastly, technologies like frontier models and AI security and trust will fuel the innovators and builders creating the future. In this report, we explain what these technologies are, when to expect value, and where to look first.