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Why Agentic AI Will Obliterate Legacy SaaS, Cybersecurity, And Networking Giants

SC Media, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026

A seismic shift has taken place, one so profound that only a handful of companies will survive in its wake. This isn't incremental improvement: it's a foundational rewrite of how software, infrastructure, and networks operate, powered by GPU-driven reasoning, ultra-fast inference, collapsing cost curves, and agentic intelligence.

Legacy SaaS stacks, bolt-on AI, and traditional cybersecurity castles are structurally incapable of navigating this transition. And now we have benchmarks and analyst foresight to prove it.

Here's what most people miss: GPUs have stopped being mere "hardware accelerators." They are now the cognitive engines that enable reasoning, planning, and autonomous decision-making. This isn't just a semantic shift: it's a complete reimagining of what computation means.

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