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 …
On August 14, Alibaba's AI arm Qwen released Qwen3.8-27B, a compact model that is byte-for-byte the most powerful ever released and small enough to run on a well-equipped PC or Mac, marking the arriva…
Google's Pixel 11 lineup, including the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold, is now available for preorder with deals from Amazon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. Amazon offers…
Nvidia unveiled NeMo Switchyard, a software router that directs AI prompts to different models to cut costs, claiming a 74 percent reduction in job completion costs versus using Claude Opus 4.8 alone,…
First Orion, a branded communications company serving carriers in the US, Canada, UK, and Germany, adopted Amazon Nova Act to shift from script-based test automation to AI-driven agents, accelerating …
AT&T has selected Ericsson to provide dual-band radios for its newly acquired 600 MHz spectrum, a move tied to supporting AI traffic that requires balanced uplink and downlink capacity. The $23 billio…
SpaceX shares dropped 7% after hours following its first post-IPO earnings report, which revealed higher-than-expected AI capex of $15.8 billion versus Wall Street's $13.09 billion estimate. Quarterly…
AT&T expanded its agreement with D-Wave Quantum to apply quantum computing to network optimization, reducing a workload's processing time from one hour to under 15 seconds. AT&T plans to use D-Wave's …
AMD unveiled OTel 2.0, an open-source AI model for telecom operators co-developed with AT&T and Microsoft, and AT&T has already processed over one trillion tokens on AMD Instinct GPUs via Microsoft Fo…
At Advancing AI 2026, AMD, AT&T, and Microsoft announced OTel 2.0, an open-source model trained specifically for telecoms, with AT&T processing more than 1 trillion tokens through managed compute in M…
AT&T CEO John Stankey said the carrier is well positioned to support and profit from a surge in AI-driven data traffic, citing its expanding fiber and wireless assets, and downplayed the need for furt…
AT&T's AI-driven incident management system prevented 3.1 million unnecessary field dispatches and reduced customer downtime by 12 million hours in 2024, the company announced. The system, known as EE…
AT&T built an end-to-end incident management system (EEIM) that reduced customer downtime by more than 12 million hours. The system, developed starting in 2017 using technologies from MongoDB and Snow…
AT&T cybersecurity leader Senthil Ramakrishnan warns that AI-powered cyberattacks are increasingly targeting small businesses, and introduces AT&T's new Dynamic Defense service to help protect busines…
AT&T, T-Mobile US, and Verizon, through their joint venture Aduna, launched a network-based authentication system to replace SMS one-time passcodes, aiming to reduce fraud and improve user experience.…
Ericsson, AT&T, and MediaTek completed a North American field trial of 5G-Advanced low-latency mobility technology, reducing data interruption during cell handovers by up to 25%. The trial aims to ena…