A wave of physical-AI news today converges on a single theme: reasoning is replacing detection as the baseline capability security systems are expected to have. VentureBeat reports that startup Perceptron has undercut the frontier AI labs by 80-90% on a video-reasoning model built for robotics and surveillance, while Disaster Recovery Journal argues reasoning vision-language models are now the proven prerequisite for enterprise security, not an experimental add-on. On the gro