Agentic and generative AI applications and workloads are testing the limits of legacy connectivity infrastructure from edge to cloud. The explosion of data and telemetry that feeds underlying large and …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Analyst Angle: floLIVE reimagines connectivity for intelligent IoT operations >
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Sovereignty…hard to define, harder to pull off (Analyst Angle) >
I saw this headline today: Amazon launched its “AWS European Sovereign cloud” with its first region in Brandenburg, Germany. I had to chuckle at the absurdity of the focus on …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Agility with credibility: Gen AI as the future of MVNO growth (Reader Forum) >by Reader Forumby Reader Forum
Heading Title AI Native Networks: Closing the Gap Between Vision and Reality | Wipro at DTW Ignite 2026 by Annie Pansilong June 30, 2026 From Data Foundation to Autonomous Networks: …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Gen AI risks are getting clearer. How much would you pay for digital trust? >by Kelly Hillby Kelly Hill
AI chats being publicly searchable. People falling in love with customer service bots. The risks of generative AI threaten the rewards — but trust might be a competitive edge. As AI …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Bookmarks: If 95% of gen AI pilots fail, what do the 5% know? >
Editor’s note: I’m in the habit of bookmarking on LinkedIn, books, magazines, movies, newspapers, and records, things I think are insightful and interesting. What I’m not in the habit of …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Seven takeaways from the Gen AI Divide report everybody’s talking about >by Kelly Hillby Kelly Hill
The Gen AI Divide report from the MIT NANDA initiative reveals a major lack of ROI on gen AI projects A recent report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">What’s the environmental cost of that Gemini prompt? Google ran the numbers >by Kelly Hillby Kelly Hill
Google researchers looked at how much energy, water and carbon emissions that a run-of-the-mill Gemini text query generates It has become conventional wisdom that using an AI chatbot like ChatGPT …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AWS doubles up on enterprise AI with Anthropic, OpenAI deals >
AWS has expanded its AI offerings with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Bedrock and OpenAI’s open weight models on Bedrock and SageMaker; they join a stable …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Air France-KLM taps Accenture for industrial AI on Google Cloud >
Air France-KLM has partnered with Accenture and Google Cloud to build a ‘generative AI factory’ to scale AI across operations using cloud infrastructure. It follows a parallel arrangement in the …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AI in telecom – human oversight, and the shift from copilots to agents >
Human-in-the-loop control is urgent as AI is unleashed on ever-more critical systems – and as it becomes more sophisticated with multi-modal generative AI and distributed agentic AI. Human oversight – …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AI in telecom – levelling-up with gen AI (beyond ML automation) >
From call centres to back-office systems, telcos are navigating the shift from predictive machine learning to generative AI, balancing innovation with caution in critical environments. Model adoption – there are …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Hyperscale capacity surges on AI demand; edge share shrinks despite gen AI bump >
Hyperscale operators dominate global data centre growth as on-premise facilities shrink by comparison. Cloud, AI, and regional dynamics are driving the shift, reshaping how and where data infrastructure scales worldwide. …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AI in telecom – from quiet power to front-line force >
Telecom operators aren’t new to AI – they’ve quietly optimized networks for years. But with the surge in generative AI, the sector is poised to become both a major user …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Bookmarks: Will AI traffic really strain mobile networks? >
Editor’s note: I’m in the habit of bookmarking on LinkedIn and X (and in actual books, magazines, movies, newspapers, and records) things I think are insightful and interesting. What I’m …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AI RAN – Chinese operators make it a commercial reality (Analyst Angle) >
AI-powered radio intelligence is stealing the spotlight in telecoms – and China is stealing the show. While global telcos experiment, Chinese operators are delivering Level 4 automation at scale, with …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">The communications industry: Finding a new path to profitable growth (Reader Forum) >
There’s a growing need for secure, reliable and local connectivity, compute and data The telco industry has faced its share of challenges over the past decade, affecting both their consumer …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">NTT Data goes hard on agentic AI, retrofits Industry 4.0 to 5.0 >
NTT Data launches a retrofit-ready agentic AI stack to bridge Industry 4.0 to 5.0, transforming legacy RPA bots into autonomous agents and delivering modular, multi-cloud AI across sectors. In sum …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Global gen AI spending to surge 76% in 2025, topping $640 billion: Gartner >
Despite mounting skepticism and rising failure rates, gen AI investment continues to skyrocket Spending on generative AI (gen AI) worldwide is set to soar to $644 billion in 2025, representing …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Verizon intros AI assistant for small businesses >
Verizon said that the AI assistant solution’s use of gen AI delivers instant responses to common customer inquiries. Verizon this week introduced Verizon Business Assistant, a new text messaging solution …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AI 101: Understanding gen AI and the enterprise opportunity >
Editor’s note: NVIDIA has a free online course called “AI for All: From Basics to Gen AI Practice”. The team at RCR Wireless News has enrolled and, as we complete …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AI-arrgghhh! Four types of AI (fear and loathing in Silicon Valley etc) >
If Jenson Huang says jump, the markets say ‘how high?’. Right? Such is the planet-shifting potential of artificial intelligence (AI), apparently – in capitalist minds today. At least until a …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Rakuten Mobile launches gen AI offering for companies >
Rakuten Mobile noted its new AI tool is specifically tailored to align with Japanese business culture, regulations and industry norms Japanese carrier Rakuten Mobile announced the launch of “Rakuten AI …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Telefónica Tech promises “quick and easy” gen AI for enterprises >
Telefónica Tech has released a generative AI (gen AI) platform for enterprises to create their own virtual assistants. It integrates with backend enterprise systems and sundry hyperscale cloud services, and …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Agentic AI—will 2025 be a breakout year? >
So you want to turn you data and abstracted business logic into use cases that carry a clear ROI? And you want to do it autonomously? Well, good news because …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Ericsson intros gen AI for enterprise 5G management >
Ericsson has added a generative AI capability to its NetCloud platform for enterprises to manage their wireless 5G wide-area network (WAN) connectivity. The firm has added a large language model …