By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-03-06 16:00:00
Can telecommunications companies leverage artificial intelligence to become, at long last, more than dumb pipes? Or, as so often has happened, will they get left behind in the coming platform shift?
Maybe third or 15th time’s the charm, and they certainly tried to make their case at this week’s MWC in Barcelona, with help from a variety of tech providers. SiliconANGLE and theCUBE had all the coverage, below. For a deeper dive, check out Dave Vellante’s and John Furrier’s Breaking Analysis on telcos’ prospects for a once-in-a-generation infrastructure reset as AI factories move to the network edge. And Intellyx’s Jason Bloomberg provided a roundup of the most important innovations he saw.
The battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon (really, our childish president) continues, even if CEO Dario Amodei says talks are ongoing, and the federal Anthropic ban somehow has started. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spied an opening and clumsily tried to take advantage of it. So far,…
