Agentic AI loops burn far more tokens than they need to, and most of that traffic sits on cloud servers. This piece traces the resulting shift toward local, edge-based AI in 2026 — checked against primary sources, with several viral claims debunked along the way (a nonexistent "Camelid" engine, fabricated Snapdragon benchmarks) and several confirmed (TurboConn, MeMo, HRM-Text, real Snapdragon X Elite energy numbers). The conclusion: no revolution, just enough small efficiency gains to make local...