From IQ to Speed: The New Battlefield for AI Agents

In 2026, intelligent agents have long crossed the threshold of "capability." Given enough compute, they can deduce logic more rigorous than a human and build systems more vast than an expert. But when we talk about the future of agents, we often ignore the most primal, yet fatal dimension: Speed . In the vision of human-machine symbiosis, we expect a "prosthetic for the mind"—controlling an agent…