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2026.01.22

2026.01.22

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Agentic AI Pushes UX Beyond Prompts Toward Trust, Consent, And Accountability

A new Smashing Magazine piece argues that as AI systems take multi-step actions on a user’s behalf, UX research has to evaluate autonomy, permissions, and responsibility — not just interface usability.

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Google Demand Gen and Performance Max: a full-funnel combo for ecommerce

A new breakdown explains how Demand Gen’s creative and audience controls can complement Performance Max’s conversion engine for ecommerce advertisers.

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Why AI agents need a task queue (and how to build one)

LogRocket argues that task queues help AI agents retry safely under rate limits while preserving execution context.

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