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A new report from VentureBeat surveyed one hundred and one enterprises on how they're deploying AI agents, and the picture is humbling. Most of what companies are calling agents are really just chatbots with extra steps. The control infrastructure isn't there yet, and Anthropic's Claude is dominating as the platform of choice — though ambition is clearly running well ahead of execution.
On the energy front, OpenAI's Sam Altman is pushing back against critics of AI's enormous power consumption with a line that's drawing attention: it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It's a rhetorically clever defense, though it sidesteps the very real question of whether AI infrastructure growth is outpacing our ability to power it responsibly.
Meanwhile, Cadence is taking a different angle on the AI and computing conversation with its AuraStack agent, which attempts to blend artificial intelligence with traditional high-performance computing for chip and circuit board design. The challenge is real — precision scientific computing and probabilistic AI are genuinely different beasts, and whether they can be made to cooperate productively is still an open engineering question.
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