For almost two decades, Amy Webb's annual tech trend report has been something close to a bible for corporate strategists. Fortune 500 boards read it. Governments cite it. SXSW builds a keynote around it.
This year Webb killed the format and replaced it with something bigger: the Convergence Outlook 2026 - a 318-page analysis of what happens when AI, biology, capital, geopolitics, and human behavior collide simultaneously. The report identifies ten convergences reshaping the world.
Two of them - Living Intelligence and Programmable Biology - land squarely on the beat BAIO has been covering since we launched in February.
Yes, a strategy report read by Fortune 500 leadership now treats biological AI not as a research curiosity but as an operating environment that executives need to prepare for. Right here, and right now.
I read the 40-plus pages covering biology and AI. Here are 8 things that stood out to me - and where BAIO's own reporting connects.