The 2026 AGU Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, will celebrate the connections that drive discovery and spark solutions, from the lab and the field to policy and public action. There are several sessions that may be of interest to Deep-Sea Round-Up readers, including Long-Term Ocean Observatories as Drivers of Sensor and Data Science Innovation (OS025) and AI and Machine Learning for Sustained Ocean Observing: Progress and the Road Ahead (OS008).