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Latest edition · No. 12 · 13 September 2026
The age of AI employees; power as the bottleneck; humanoids in pilots
- 01
The age of AI employees has begun
AI is moving from answering questions to executing workflows.
- 02
Power is the new bottleneck for AI
Interconnection, not chips, decides where capacity gets built.
- 03
Physical AI leaves the lab
Pilots are being judged on cost per task.
- 04
Securing the agentic enterprise
Every agent is an identity with credentials.
- 05
Parallax Index: Energy for AI is the fastest riser
+11 points over the trailing window.