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Security Theatre, Memory Hype, and a Data Centre Backlash

Most of this week was noise — model launches dressed up as breakthroughs and another round of "AI will remember you" marketing. But three threads actually matter for leaders: agentic security is failing in production, the economics of inference are about to get worse, and the social licence for AI infrastructure is fraying in public. Here's what's worth your attention.

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