AWS partnered with Cerebras. Microsoft licensed Fireworks. Google built Ironwood. One week of announcements reveals who solved inference first and who is catching up.
The annual show for the embedded electronics supply chain showcased many innovations in edge AI and connected, intelligent systems that can perceive and act in real time.
New AI canvases in UC and productivity platforms use inputs from meetings and documents to drive enterprise workflows, with important implications for governance.
Microsoft built Copilot Cowork on Anthropic’s Claude model and agentic framework. The $13B OpenAI partner just shipped its flagship AI feature on someone else’s engine.
The AI capex boom will roll on in 2026, driving demand for innovation that can help build the next generation of cloud, communications, and AI infrastructure.
OpenAI acquires Promptfoo to embed AI red-teaming and security testing directly into its Frontier agent platform, signaling that agent safety is now table stakes.
Sarvam AI’s 105B is a genuine engineering achievement. But India still lacks a trusted, independent institution to verify whether its sovereign models perform as claimed.
Microsoft’s Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B uses careful data curation and selective reasoning to compete with models trained on five times more data, reshaping the small AI playbook.
LAFC becomes MLS’s first Wi-Fi 7 stadium with RUCKUS Networks, offering a blueprint for enterprise IT leaders tackling connectivity in harsh, high-density environments.
NVIDIA invested $4 billion in Lumentum, Coherent, and Ayar Labs to secure optical interconnect supply. The deals build competitive moats as AI clusters hit power limits.