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News of the day
1. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang forecasts a 5-10x boom in computing driven by AI agents and robots, necessitating significant infrastructure expansion. → Read more
2. Shahir Daya discusses the critical need for robust governance frameworks for AI agents in regulated industries, highlighting risks and cost implications. → Read more
3. Extropic inks $75M US Dept. of Commerce LOI for thermodynamic computing R&D, aiming to boost AI energy efficiency and onshore manufacturing. → Read more
4. OpenAI details GPT-5.6 efficiencies, with Sol outperforming Claude Fable 5 and cutting costs via self-optimization. → Read more
Our take
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Jensen Huang dropped a number on Bloomberg this week: to absorb the coming wave of agents and robots, the semiconductor industry would need to grow five to tenfold over the decade. His line sums it up: tomorrow it will no longer be a billion humans using computers, but a hundred billion agents and billions of robots. We are now building machines for other machines.
Let us put that scale in perspective. The chip market already sits somewhere around 1300 to 1500 billion dollars in 2026, lifted by a spectacular memory surge. Multiplying that by ten means aiming above 10 trillion, a slice of global GDP that is genuinely dizzying. Huang himself makes clear this is a personal estimate rather than a certainty, and he is right to hedge: when the man selling shovels announces the gold rush, a raised eyebrow is still in order.
That said, the direction is right, and the bet rests on very concrete commitments. More than 500 billion in partnership with SK Group, a co-developed HBM4 roadmap built for agentic workloads, a 2 GW data center announced in Korea for 2027, a billion invested in Naver. These are not conference slides.
The part that actually concerns us is not the number of fabs, it is the changing nature of the traffic. When API calls come from autonomous loops rather than human thumbs, rate limiting, session memory, inference routing and observability all start to crack. That work has already begun.
And it echoes yesterday's news. Cursor is launching a subscription in India at 649 rupees, roughly 7 dollars, viable because the company runs on its own models. The unit price of intelligence collapses while total consumption explodes. Jevons, once again.
The bottleneck will not be silicon. It will be electricity, memory, and our ability to make ten agents genuinely productive.
Alex.
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