Artificial Intelligence

Interview: Biting AI realities push data to the fore

NetApp principal architect and field CTO Rahul Sharma explains why data is a constant in industrial digitalisation as the realities of AI deployments bite.

From automated response to reasoning: Building confidence in AI-driven NetOps

The concept of probabilistic automation can be off-putting, even divisive. Consider self-driving cars. They’re part of the progression of vehicle automation that includes parallel parking assist, driver assistance and hands-free driving.

Why judgment matters more, not less, in the AI era

For a few years now, the headlines have become familiar: yet another company laying off workers as a result of AI. But in recent months, we’ve seen a new twist.

Facebook whistleblower urges AI firms to honour US safety pledge

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen reportedly cast doubt on whether AI companies would honour a voluntary safety pledge agreed after a meeting with US President Donald Trump last week.

Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what

The Agentic AI Super Cycle

AI is the biggest revolution of our lives, and it will grow exponentially into the 2030s.

UNDP and GSMA partner to support African-led AI and African-language services

The UN Development Programme and the GSMA will work together to give African AI developers access to compute, talent networks and routes to scale.

GSMA partners with UNDP to boost Africa’s AI ecosystem

The GSMA signed a strategic partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Friday that aims to strengthen and accelerate Africa’s AI ecosystem, including deployment of African-language AI.

Trump Names National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton to Lead a New Federal AI Task Force

The announcement comes after Trump hosted top executives of AI companies at the White House last week.

Anthropic asks Claude users to share voice data for AI model training

Anthropic has started asking Claude users to voluntarily share their voice conversations to help train and improve its AI models.

All the AI agents that can live in your text messages

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

doxx.net Raises $38 Million to Prevent AI Agent-on-the-Internet Misadventures

doxx.net’s new ADN platform prevents agentic misadventure while the agent is operating under the user’s authority.

Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music

Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.

arXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem the AI slop tide

Two a month per submitter, starting now, and you can thank science slop for the change

Startup doxx.net hands the network controls to AI

It used to take a large team of engineers years to build a new networking startup. AI changes that game entirely.

STELLARIX Senegal Expands Data Centre Capacity to Support AI and Digital Growth

STELLARIX Senegal is expanding its data centre capacity to support the growing demand for cloud services, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital infrastructure in Senegal and…

AI and edge computing step into the cable spotlight

At SCTE TechExpo, Charter and Spectrum explained how they are repurposing space, power and cooling at hubs and headends to serve up AI and high-bandwidth, low-latency services at the edge.

Cisco expands secure AI factory with NVIDIA for the rack-scale era

Cisco’s full-stack architecture adds massive AI computing power, offering an NVIDIA Cloud Partner compliant reference architecture built for surging neocloud and sovereign cloud demand.

BT pitches AI receptionist to UK businesses

BT Business rolled out a new AI suite in the UK to help businesses adopt the technology while overcoming complexity and security concerns which may be holding them back.

$6T in annual AI revenue needed to pay off data center investments

Hyperscalers are rushing to build more data centers to run AI workloads — but will the AI industry ever generate enough revenue to pay for that infrastructure?

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Trump brushes off AI concerns, praises Anthropic CEO

US President Donald Trump reportedly continued to dismiss concerns about any threat AI poses to humanity while repeating his claim guardrails would impede its development.

Samsung sees physical AI pushing networks beyond connectivity

Jungchul Kim, head of product strategy group, networks business at Samsung Electronics, told RCR that physical AI applications will place specific demands on networks, including ultra-low latency, high reliability, consistent…