A Public First poll covering over 18,000 people across 15 countries found respondents in 11 nations viewed China as ahead in AI capability and innovation. The same survey showed a trust gap: US AI models ranked second on net trust at +16, while China placed 10th at -8. The findings land as China pushes its AI Plus strategy and Chinese models such as Alibaba Qwen3.7-Max and Zhipu GLM-5.1 appear in top Code Arena rankings.

#ai #AI trust #China AI

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Sakana Marlin Tests Whether AI Agents Can Do Strategy Research, Not Just Chat

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Sakana Marlin Tests Whether AI Agents Can Do Strategy Research, Not Just Chat

Sakana AI launched Sakana Marlin as an enterprise research agent that can spend up to 8 hours preparing a 100-page strategy report, but customer proof and data-handling details remain undisclosed.

#ai #AI agents #enterprise AI

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Indian Telcos Push Back On TRAI Voice-Only Tariff Plan

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Indian Telcos Push Back On TRAI Voice-Only Tariff Plan

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea opposed TRAI’s 2026 draft plan to widen voice-and SMS-only tariff vouchers, setting up a pricing fight over basic-phone users, data bundles and consumer protection.

#telco connectivity #telecom regulation #mobile tariffs

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GCI Turns Starlink Into A Backup Path For Remote Alaska Networks

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GCI Turns Starlink Into A Backup Path For Remote Alaska Networks

GCI plans to use Starlink dedicated service with bonded gateways as backup connectivity for Alaskan hubs including Bethel, Sitka, Kotzebue and Dillingham, adding a satellite path behind existing microwave and fiber links.

#telco connectivity #satellite broadband #network redundancy

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Taiwan Turns 6G Planning Into A Spectrum And Standards Test

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Taiwan Turns 6G Planning Into A Spectrum And Standards Test

Taiwan is pairing 6G spectrum-roadmap work with ITRI agreements in Europe, while Dell’Oro’s projections frame the next network cycle as evolutionary and dependent on AI-driven traffic demand.

#telco connectivity #6G #spectrum policy

June 16, 2026Read More →

Upstage Turns Daum Into The Distribution Layer For Solar AI Agents

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Upstage Turns Daum Into The Distribution Layer For Solar AI Agents

South Korea’s Upstage is tying its Solar models to Daum search, Timelee agents and a planned Loom desktop agent as it moves from model development toward search, enterprise and consumer AI services.

#ai #Korean AI #AI agents

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AI Compute Scarcity Is Redrawing The Infrastructure Map

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AI Compute Scarcity Is Redrawing The Infrastructure Map

AI infrastructure projects in India, Africa, Brazil and the UAE show how power, chip access, data location and inference demand are pushing compute beyond the traditional U.S. hyperscale cloud map.

#ai #AI infrastructure #sovereign AI

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Ciena Says AI Data Centers Will Need More Than One Optical Network Design

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Ciena Says AI Data Centers Will Need More Than One Optical Network Design

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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