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| Ezee Fiber Report Details NM Fiber Broadband Economic Impact Ezee Fiber's new report details fiber broadband's significant economic and innovation impact in New Mexico. The study reveals fiber more than doubled median internet speeds in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. It added an aggregate $77.1 million in housing value to sold homes and created 661 jobs in those cities. Digital microbusinesses saw improved health due to fiber access. |
| Aurora Serverless Scales to 12 ACUs in a Second for AI Workloads Amazon Aurora serverless has significantly enhanced its scaling capabilities, now achieving up to 12 ACUs within a second to efficiently support demanding agentic AI and other bursty workloads. This rapid scale-up, combined with automatic scale-down to zero, ensures optimal performance and cost-effectiveness for applications with unpredictable traffic patterns and long idle periods. The improvement is enabled by default for newer platform versions, requiring no configuration changes for users. |
| Global Polymer Innovation Mapped by SAMRI and CAS Report Advanced Materials Research Institute (SAMRI) and CAS published Polymer Frontiers, a joint report analyzing global polymer innovation. This data-driven analysis draws on nearly one million journal and patent records from 2015 to 2025. It identifies research hotspots, competitive positioning, and emerging application domains using advanced bibliometrics. The findings show Asia-Pacific as the dominant center, with China leading in research output and patent development. |
| ZettaWatt Platform Solves AI Data Center Gridlock DIMAAG launched its ZettaWatt 800 VDC Power Platform, a modular grid-to-800 VDC solution for hyperscale AI data centers. This platform solves AI data center gridlock by meeting ERCOT low-voltage ride-through requirements and smoothing cyclic loads below one percent. It eliminates energy losses from double power conversion, improving overall power quality. ZettaWatt offers higher efficiency, a smaller physical footprint, and reduced capital and operating costs. |
| Assist Group Consortium Takes Over NEC Overseas Network Arm NEC Corporation has announced a significant strategic move, agreeing to transfer its overseas network equipment resale business and certain IT services businesses to a consortium led by Assist Group S.r.l. This divestiture includes operations across Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, impacting system building for telecommunications operators, enterprises, and IT services for governments. |
| Salesforce's Agentforce 360 AI Agents Get IL5 for National Security Salesforce's Agentforce 360, a comprehensive portfolio of AI agents and data capabilities, has received Impact Level 5 (IL5) authorization, enabling its integration into the Missionforce National Security platform. This critical development allows the Department of War to deploy autonomous AI agents for enhanced defense logistics, accelerated recruit onboarding, and real-time command insights. |
| Oracle Cloud Expanding Global Digital Transformation Through Minor Hotels Minor Hotels has successfully rolled out Oracle OPERA Cloud across 106 of its hotels, resorts, and branded residences in 59 countries. This milestone marks a significant step in Minor’s digital transformation strategy and commitment to elevating guest and associate experiences across its portfolio. |
| NEC Overseas Business Transfers NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with a consortium led by Assist Group S.r.l. to transfer its overseas network equipment resale business as well as its IT services business for governments and local authorities in certain countries, which includes system development for biometric authentication and smart cities. |
| Cloudflare Gives AI Purchasing Power Cloudflare, Inc. announced Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay to give AI agents deployed on Cloudflare a stable identity and the ability to make purchases online safely within limits set by their human creators. |
| Agentic AI Inference Gets Marvell's New Memory Stack Marvell Technology, Inc. announced new innovations in its AI memory infrastructure portfolio, advancing its position in AI storage, rack-scale CXL memory expansion and pooling, and pod-level optical shared memory. The portfolio helps hyperscalers and cloud providers scale memory, improving utilization, scalability, and token efficiency for agentic AI inference. |
| 50G PON Runs Live in Japan for the First Time Adtran and TOHKnet completed Japan's first live network trial of 50G PON, demonstrating coexistence with XGS-PON and EPON on a single fiber. The trial showcased a practical path for network evolution, enabling phased upgrades while maintaining continuity for existing services and maximizing fiber assets without disruption. |
| M3, Samsung to Partner on First US Floating Data Center Mousterian Corporation, Inc., aka M3, and Samsung Heavy Industries signed an engineering contract. This agreement is for their first US floating data center deployment, a priority project under their strategic cooperation. It advances their April 2026 framework into execution, with plans for Texas. They will jointly engineer 50 MW floating data center units. The design emphasizes sustainability, featuring non-evaporative cooling and zero process discharge. |
| New Patent for Space-Based Data Centers Sophia Space and Caltech secured a US Patent for space-based data centers, covering large-scale, modular architectures using solar power and passive deep space heat radiation. This invention, born from a JPL R&D program managed by Caltech, addresses high-risk concepts. Sophia Space, founded by Dr. Leon Alkalai, is commercializing the 'TILE' architecture. |
| AZIO AI Signs AT&T for Fiber at 500MW AI Data Campus AZIO AI partnered with AT&T for enterprise fiber connectivity on its initial 500-megawatt Texas AI data center platform. This agreement creates a standardized, high-capacity, low-latency network crucial for AI training, GPU cloud, and high-performance computing workloads. AZIO AI committed approximately $2.4 million for these fiber services. The partnership facilitates rapid network deployment for future expansion, supporting AZIO AI's hyperscale AI strategy. |
| Tredence Becomes Select Partner in OpenAI Partner Network This partnership combines OpenAI's advanced AI models with Tredence's industry expertise and engineering capabilities. The collaboration helps organizations responsibly build, deploy, and scale AI solutions. Tredence will assist clients in maximizing value from models like GPT-5.6 and accelerating execution with ChatGPT Work. |
| AT&T Unveils 5G Standalone Core, FirstNet Built with public safety’s direct feedback, the dedicated FirstNet 5G SA core was developed to meet first responders’ unique operational and technological needs. |
| AccelerComm and Eclipse Space Partner for Next-Gen Connectivity AccelerComm is working with Eclipse Space, a satellite company founded by Starlink veterans, to help design the communications technology for next-generation satellites. AccelerComm's 5G technology will power Eclipse's satellites, allowing them to deliver reliable connectivity directly to mobile devices and broadband users from space. |
| DE-CIX Research Reveals Cloud Connectivity Issues Hinder AI Adoption DE-CIX research across 400 US and UK enterprises reveals IT teams lose over a full workday weekly to cloud connectivity problems, despite 96% feeling AI-ready. This indicates a significant gap between perceived AI readiness and actual network performance in businesses. |
| Xsight Labs Raises New Capital for Next-Gen AI and Cloud Networks Xsight Labs secured over $300 million in funding, achieving a $2.8 billion post-money valuation. CEO says valuation reflects the market need for a high-performance alternative to closed, legacy architectures. |
| Dell'Oro Reports Cable Operators Boosting Spend for DOCSIS 4.0 Dell'Oro Group reports cable operators are accelerating outside plant equipment investments, with record spending on amplifiers expected. Revenues for Cable Outside Plant Equipment should increase 20 percent in 2026, driven by new 1.8 GHz amplifiers and DAA/GAP Nodes for Remote PHY and OLT deployments. Investments will peak in 2027 as operators prepare for DOCSIS 4.0, enhancing network capacity. Spending on optical nodes, amplifiers, and passive equipment is forecasted through 2028. |
| Lightpath Reports IP Backbone Traffic Growth Lightpath reported its IP network traffic grew an annualized 32% over 18 months, driven by enterprise AI adoption and large language model platforms. This accelerated growth, surpassing historical 19%, is broad-based across its diversified customer base in 11 major U.S. metro markets, underscoring real AI-driven bandwidth demand. |
| Ericsson for the Next-Generation Rail Communications Network for Queensland Rail Ericsson announced it will provide the 5G-enabled Digital Radio System (DRS) technology in partnership with rail engineering firm UGL Transport and including mission-critical communications specialist Frequentis. |
| Marvell Invests $250M to Expand AI Innovation in India Marvell Technology, Inc. announced plans to invest $250 million in India over the next three years to expand its technology, talent, and infrastructure capabilities. This investment marks 20 years of innovation in India, aiming to double headcount and expand facilities in Bangalore and Hyderabad, supporting advanced semiconductor solutions for AI, cloud, and data infrastructure applications. |
| AT&T Business, Palo Alto Deliver Fully Managed Protection for Enterprise AT&T Business and Palo Alto Networks announced an expansion of their collaboration to help enterprises secure increasingly distributed environments by integrating advanced security directly into the network. |
| FCC Bans Foreign-made Advanced Humanoid Robots and Inverters The action follows determinations, for both robots and inverters, by a White House-convened Executive Branch interagency body with appropriate national security expertise, which determined that these foreign-made products, regardless of the nationality of origin, “pose unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States or the safety and security of United States persons.” |
