Ciena executive Helen Xenos says AI data center interconnect will mix coherent optics, photonic line systems, full-spectrum transponders, co-packaged optics and liquid cooling as scale-across deployments push capacity and reliability demands higher.

#telco connectivity #data center interconnect #optical networking

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Hunar.AI Tests Voice Agents On India’s Frontline Hiring Gap

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Hunar.AI Tests Voice Agents On India’s Frontline Hiring Gap

Bengaluru-based Hunar.AI says its voice agents now handle more than 5 Lakh calls a day for frontline hiring, onboarding and retention workflows, with customers including Swiggy, Zepto, Croma and Starbucks.

#ai #voice AI #frontline workforce

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3GPP Sets 6G Standards Path To March 2029 Code Freeze

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3GPP Sets 6G Standards Path To March 2029 Code Freeze

3GPP has fixed the Release 21 timeline for the first 6G specifications, with March 2027, June 2028, December 2028 and March 2029 milestones now shaping vendor and operator planning.

#telco connectivity #6G standards #3GPP

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Middle Powers Face AI Access Test As U.S. And China Dominate Compute

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Middle Powers Face AI Access Test As U.S. And China Dominate Compute

A New York Tech Week discussion framed AI access as a bargaining problem for middle powers, with the U.S. and China controlling most compute, investment and frontier-model leverage.

#ai #sovereign AI #AI infrastructure

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Foxconn And Schneider Target AI Data Center Power Bottleneck

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Foxconn And Schneider Target AI Data Center Power Bottleneck

Foxconn and Schneider Electric plan joint AI data center reference architectures, pairing AI rack manufacturing with power, cooling and energy-management systems as production begins later this year.

#ai #AI data centers #digital infrastructure

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Tencent Cloud Tests Korea As AI And Gaming Cloud Benchmark

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Tencent Cloud Tests Korea As AI And Gaming Cloud Benchmark

Tencent Cloud is using South Korea as an Asia-Pacific benchmark for AI, gaming and cloud expansion, pairing 66 availability zones across 23 regions with new Korea partnerships and AI products unveiled at Tencent Cloud Day Korea 2026.

#ai #cloud infrastructure #gaming cloud

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AT&S Backs Malaysia AI Substrate Expansion With Customer Commitments

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AT&S Backs Malaysia AI Substrate Expansion With Customer Commitments

AT&S plans a customer-backed Kulim expansion for IC substrates and advanced PCBs, naming AMD as one customer as AI hardware demand moves deeper into the semiconductor supply chain.

#chips semiconductors #semiconductors #AI infrastructure

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Zyphra’s Zamba2-VL Tests Hybrid AI For Faster Vision-Language Models

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Zyphra’s Zamba2-VL Tests Hybrid AI For Faster Vision-Language Models

Zyphra released Zamba2-VL, an open-source vision-language model family that uses a Mamba2-transformer hybrid architecture to target lower-latency multimodal inference for documents, OCR, counting and edge AI tasks.

#ai #vision language models #edge AI

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HCLTech-Led Sarvam Round Tests India’s Sovereign AI Scale-Up

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HCLTech-Led Sarvam Round Tests India’s Sovereign AI Scale-Up

Sarvam raised $234 Mn inside a $300 Mn Series B round led by HCLTech, giving the Bengaluru AI startup a $1.5 Bn valuation and more capital for Indian-language models, compute infrastructure and enterprise AI deployments.

#ai #sovereign AI #enterprise AI

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Anthropic Lawsuit Puts Claude Max Usage Limits Under Scrutiny

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Anthropic Lawsuit Puts Claude Max Usage Limits Under Scrutiny

A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Anthropic overstated Claude Max usage limits, turning AI subscription transparency into a product and pricing risk for professional users.

#ai #AI subscriptions #Claude Max

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Telecom Operators Test Whether AI Networks Can Move From Opex Cuts To Revenue

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Telecom Operators Test Whether AI Networks Can Move From Opex Cuts To Revenue

Communications service providers are using generative and agentic AI to automate network operations, but the next test is whether distributed connectivity, edge sites and secure infrastructure can become paid AI services.

#telco connectivity #AI infrastructure #autonomous networks

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Edge And Safran Put UAE Defence Tech Push Into European Partnership Frame

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Edge And Safran Put UAE Defence Tech Push Into European Partnership Frame

Abu Dhabi’s Edge Group and Safran Electronics & Defence signed an agreement in Abu Dhabi to work on air-to-ground weapons systems, with possible expansion into surface-to-air missile work and next-generation smart weapons.

#defence technology #smart weapons #Edge Group

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