Susana Schwartz
Final day of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
Susana Schwartz
Technology Editor
RCRTech
AI Infrastructure Top Stories
MWC Barcelona – Orange: Orange CEO Christel Heydemann said in her keynote that operators must move beyond connectivity and become “architects of trust,” especially in areas of “autonomous action” and “unknown threats.”
MWC Barcelona – summary: Operators and vendors are no longer simply showcasing AI experiments, they’re outlining how intelligence will reshape infrastructure and OSS/BSS, as with GSMA Open Telco AI and more.
MWC Barcelona- Totogi: Totogi CEO Danielle Rios said “you have to fix context for agentic AI to work” in a talk with RCR’s Sean Kinney about the “100s of software systems” whose definitions and contradictions can confuse AI if not synthesized.
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Broadco $100B projection: Broadcom reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue and issued a strong forecast of $100 billion in an otherwise Nvidia-dominated market. The announcement triggered a 5% rise in its stock yesterday.
Anthropic – Dept. of Defense: With the Iran War, the Anthropic-Pentagon story has gone quiet, but there are still unanswered questions about where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and CEO Dario Amodei stand, legally, personally, and professionally.
Claude suddenly #1 in App Store: Anthropic’s Claude AI became the ‘ #1 download after the Pentagon blacklisted the company. Some believe users are defecting to support CEO Amodei’s stance on surveillance and AI-driven weapons.
