America's Answer to DeepSeek Is a Bet on Cheapness, Not Brawn
Reflection AI's new open model Beam claims to match China's best while burning three to four times less compute. The benchmark score is almost beside the point; the whole pitch is the price. The catch: nobody outside the company can verify it until the weights ship later this month.
Read full story →The Thing Keeping AI Bosses Awake Isn't the Algorithm. It's the Grid.
From Seoul to Singapore, the AI race is quietly becoming an electricity race. Demand is set to top 1,000 terawatt-hours this year, the AWS boss is personally defending data-centre water use, and bankers are rewiring Asian trade finance to pay for the build-out.
Read full story →Everyone Is Selling AI Agents. Almost Nobody Is Running Them.
Surveys put AI adoption near universal and agent use in the single digits. The gap isn't capability; it's that firms still can't prove what an autonomous agent was allowed to do, and why. Even Meta, spending $145bn, says agent progress has stalled.
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