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Latest edition · No. 12 · 13 September 2026

The age of AI employees; power as the bottleneck; humanoids in pilots

  1. 01

    The age of AI employees has begun

    AI is moving from answering questions to executing workflows.

  2. 02

    Power is the new bottleneck for AI

    Interconnection, not chips, decides where capacity gets built.

  3. 03

    Physical AI leaves the lab

    Pilots are being judged on cost per task.

  4. 04

    Securing the agentic enterprise

    Every agent is an identity with credentials.

  5. 05

    Parallax Index: Energy for AI is the fastest riser

    +11 points over the trailing window.