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Picture the pitch from eighteen months ago: you tell an assistant "I need running shoes, size 10, under $120, arriving by Friday," it compares the options, picks the best one, and the box shows up. No tabs, no cart, no nineteen-step checkout flow. That was the promise of agentic commerce, and for a while it felt like the next big interface shift — the same way voice search and mobile were supposed to change everything before them.

Eighteen months later, the honest picture is more interesting than the pitch. One version of that dream mostly stalled. A quieter version of it is already moving billions of dollars a year. And a third version of it is showing up in fraud reports as a brand-new way to lose money. All three are worth understanding, because odds are you've already brushed up against at least one of them this summer without fully realizing it.

There's a small thing happening at airport gates, on factory floors, and at parent-teacher conferences this spring that didn't used to happen. Someone in regular-looking glasses tilts their head slightly, says a single sentence under their breath, and gets a quiet answer through what looks like the arm of the frame. A traveler asks for directions to her connecting gate without taking out a phone. A line manager pulls up the right torque spec while his hands are on the part. A parent, in a meeting conducted in a language she doesn't speak, reads captions floating in the corner of her right lens.

Six months ago, anyone wearing AI glasses at a meeting looked like they were testing a prototype. This summer, the people wearing them mostly look like people who wear glasses. The hardware finally caught up with the use case — and the use case turned out to be smaller and more useful than any of the launch videos suggested.

AI Maniacs just launched its newest learning track - Future of AI - with 12 lessons covering the biggest questions about where artificial intelligence is heading. If you've ever wondered when we'll get AGI, what the EU AI Act means for you, or whether AI is coming for your job, this track has you covered.