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Applied AI·October 14, 2026·1 min read

Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence

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Turning AI agents into sacrificial fraud targets flips threat intel from passive monitoring to active engagement. Risk and payments teams should be asking vendors how they can operationalize agent-based probing of scam ecosystems instead of relying solely on static rules and user reports.

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Data centers use as little as 60% of power consumed for actual AI work, Nvidia claims — failures and restarts 'consume' a whopping 10% of every watt used

If only ~60% of your power budget reaches useful AI compute and 10% is lost to failures and restarts, optimization at the facility and orchestration layer is now a direct margin lever. Infra leaders should be instrumenting failure-induced waste and pushing vendors like Vertiv and Nvidia for concrete efficiency roadmaps, not just more megawatts.