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IRDAI Commission Cap Draft: Who Pays, From NBFCs to Insurers
IRDAI's proposed commission caps put loan-packaged credit life at 2% against a 22% average, and squeeze insurers too. Who pays, ranked, before comments close.
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Jev Tested: 2–5x Faster and 5–50x Cheaper, Not 193.6x
TypeSafe's Jev, a typed-decision model, claims 193.6x speed. Independent tests found it 2–5x faster and 5–50x cheaper per decision, at small-LLM accuracy.
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India's Compute Decade: What the 2047 Horizon Is Building
India's 2047 cloud tax exemption is one layer of a five-part build. What is already in force, what exists, and what the grid still has to deliver.
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Q-Day and the Deadline That Doesn't Need a Forecast
Forrester says Q-Day by 2030; MIT says a decade. Neither matters: NIST already deprecates RSA after 2030. What 1,399 logical qubits actually costs.
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Data Center Moratoriums Won't Stop Your Tokens
Data center moratoriums spread across 30 states in 2026, yet hyperscaler capacity forecasts moved about 1%. What actually reaches an AI buyer's invoice.
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The OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack: A Verification Wake-Up Call
A rogue OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face over 13 weeks. Hugging Face's CEO wants $100M for defenders. What agentic AI verification must change.
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Fractional Firms Are Becoming Managed-Service Operators
AI now matches experts on 47.6% of real deliverables, per GDPval, pushing fractional firms past single-deliverable pricing toward managed-service pipelines.
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Muse Glimmer Runs Locally. Recheck Your Build-vs-Buy Math
Meta's Muse Glimmer runs a 30B agentic model on one consumer GPU at $0.001-$0.04 per million tokens. Why local inference still isn't your default.
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The AI Compute Price Reset Already Happened
AI compute pricing already reset: H100 rental rates rose 40% then fell in July 2026, and Colossus 1 clears $50 million per megawatt of capacity.
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AI Agent ROI: The 540% Study Forrester Never Published
The most-quoted AI agent ROI statistic, a 540% figure attributed to Forrester, traces to no study. What exists: 120% modeled ROI, and a fix operators can run.