Hark, the AI startup founded by Brett Adcock, launched its first consumer product, the Hark Pro app, on October 6, 2026, for web, iOS, and Android, with hardware devices expected to ship in 2027. Hark…
AT&T now routes roughly 40% of its internal AI requests through open-weight models, cutting AI coding costs by 56% while absorbing only a 2% decline in output quality, the company said. The telecom gi…
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed an executive order establishing a statewide review process and public dashboard for large data center projects, joining Virginia in a regional push to tighten oversight …
AT&T plans to keep cutting jobs as it automates internal processes with AI and retires its legacy copper landline network, after shedding 8,000 employees last year and about 2,100 in the first half of…
Amazon has deployed nearly 400 satellites in low Earth orbit for its Amazon Leo constellation and filed with the Federal Communications Commission to launch and operate more than 5,100 low Earth orbit…
Suman Kanuganti argues U.S. carriers should build an "agent store" rather than merely resell AI tokens, after China's telecom carriers began packaging AI access into consumer plans and routing traffic…
AT&T cut its coding AI costs by up to 56 percent by adopting task-aware LLM gateway routing, according to a production case study that also cites fintech company Ramp's experience scaling AI features …
AT&T has shifted roughly 40 percent of its AI usage to open-weight models, up from 20 percent in May, according to chief data and AI officer Andy Markus, cutting costs by as much as 80 percent for hig…
A developer argues that AI will drive organizations to shift from circuit-switching-style dedicated workflows to packet-switching-style networks, much as packet switching made the Bell System's teleph…
Nokia plans to cut Bell Labs research headcount from 681 to 408 by the end of next year, a reduction of about 46% since 2024, and shrink its dedicated research centers from 19 to six, according to int…
Uber, Pinterest, Stripe, Coinbase, Ramp, and AT&T are cutting AI costs by replacing proprietary models with open-source alternatives and using smart model routing, according to The Pulse. The shift re…
SpaceX reported that about 2,000 customers in the greater Memphis and Southaven area have signed up for its discounted Starlink satellite internet service since late June, when the company began offer…
AT&T cut the cost of coding and other advanced AI tasks by as much as 56%, with quality declining only 2%, by using the open-source model router LiteLLM and shifting volume to open-weight models, acco…
Glenn Lurie, former AT&T Mobility CEO, argues that AI's success depends on network infrastructure—fiber, wireless, satellite, edge, and power—not just chips and data centers, citing PwC's finding that…
Open-weight AI models accounted for 62% of all tokens processed through Vercel's AI Gateway on August 22, up from 28.4% on June 24, according to Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. Despite this volume share, …
At the 2026 TPI Aspen Forum hosted by the Technology Policy Institute from August 16–18 in Aspen, Colorado, panelists warned that AI's massive energy demands and data center buildout are straining pow…
AT&T reduced its AI coding costs by 56% with only a 2% decline in performance by routing routine employee queries to cheaper open-source models via LiteLLM, processing 45 billion tokens daily on its i…
At the Technology Policy Institute Aspen Forum, experts from Lumen Technologies and AT&T warned that AI network expansion faces a triple threat of capacity, permitting, and supply chain constraints. L…
AT&T has shifted up to 25% of its 45 billion daily AI tokens to open-source models, cutting costs by 80% to 90% on targeted applications and saving millions, with plans to route 70-80% of workloads th…
Sathiesh Veera, a GenAI Solutions Architect at AT&T, discussed on Software Engineering Radio episode 734 the data-protection guardrails required when using large language models, noting that LLMs sit …