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NTT’s IOWN provides ultra low latency and energy efficiency in Japan and Hong Kong
The rapid uptake of generative AI in data centers and semiconductor factories is causing a surge in power consumption, which is predicted to reach 11 times the current level by 2033. To address this issue, the NTT Group has proposed the “IOWN (Innovative Optical and Wireless Network)” concept, which aims to improve energy efficiency and… Read more
Highlights and Summary of the 2025 Brooklyn 6G Summit
Last week’s Brooklyn 6G Summit, hosted by Nokia and the NYU Wireless research center, explored two critical pillars of 6G development: artificial intelligence (AI) and value creation. Speakers and panelists from technology, business, academia and regulation organizations came together to shape the future of wireless in a three-day event on the campus of the NYU Tandon… Read more
Nokia and Rohde & Schwarz collaborate on AI-powered 6G receiver years before IMT 2030 RIT submissions to ITU-R WP5D
Nokia and the test and measurement firm Rohde & Schwarz have created and successfully tested a “6G” radio receiver that uses AI technologies to overcome one of the biggest anticipated challenges of 6G network rollouts, coverage limitations inherent in 6G’s higher-frequency spectrum. –>This is truly astonishing as ITU-R WP5D doesn’t even plan to evaluate 6G… Read more
AI spending boom accelerates: Big tech to invest an aggregate of $400 billion in 2025; much more in 2026!
The biggest U.S. mega-cap tech companies are on track to invest an aggregate of $400 billion into artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives this year, a commitment they collectively indicate “is nowhere near enough.” Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon all have announced further AI spending increases in 2026. The investment community reacted favorably to the plans presented by… Read more
Nvidia pays $1 billion for a stake in Nokia to collaborate on AI networking solutions
This is not only astonishing but unheard of: the world’s largest and most popular fabless semiconductor company –Nvidia– taking a $1 billion stake in a telco/reinvented data center connectivity company-Nokia. Indeed, GPU king Nvidia will pay $1 billion for a stake of 2.9% in Nokia as part of a deal focused on AI and data… Read more
184K global tech layoffs in 2025 to date; ~27.3% related to AI replacing workers
As of October, over 184,000 global tech jobs were cut in 2025, according to a report from Silicon Valley Business Journal. 50,184 were directly related to the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation tools by businesses. Silicon Valley’s AI boom has been pummeling headcounts across major companies in the region — and globally. U.S…. Read more
IBM and Groq Partner to Accelerate Enterprise AI Inference Capabilities
IBM and Groq [1.] today announced a strategic market and technology partnership designed to give clients immediate access to Groq’s inference technology — GroqCloud, on watsonx Orchestrate – providing clients high-speed AI inference capabilities at a cost that helps accelerate agentic AI deployment. As part of the partnership, Groq and IBM plan to integrate and enhance RedHat open source vLLM… Read more
OCP 2025 Meta keynote: Scaling the AI Infrastructure to Data Center Regions
At the OCP Global Summit 2025 in San Jose, CA, Meta detailed its strategy for scaling AI infrastructure to regional data center deployments, emphasizing open, collaborative, and highly scalable designs to support growing AI workloads. The October 14th keynote presentation by Meta’s VP of Data Center Infrastructure, Dan Rabinovitsj, discussed strategies for deploying and operating… Read more
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos at Italian Tech Week: “AI is a kind of industrial bubble”
Tech firms are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on advanced AI chips and data centers, not just to keep pace with a surge in the use of chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, but to make sure they’re ready to handle a more fundamental and disruptive shift of economic activity from humans to… Read more
Can the debt fueling the new wave of AI infrastructure buildouts ever be repaid?
IEEE Techblog has called attention to the many challenges and risks inherent in the current mega-spending boom for AI infrastructure (building data centers, obtaining power/electricity, cooling, maintenance, fiber optic networking, etc) . In particular, these two recent blog posts: AI Data Center Boom Carries Huge Default and Demand Risks and Big tech spending on AI… Read more