Some thoughts on today’s news: that telcos are doubling down to support AI-era workloads, while cloud providers are discovering just how expensive the infrastructure build-out can be. Cisco is leaning …

Softbank’s pursuit of a $40 billion bridge loan (link here, covered everywhere) to help fund its expanding investment in OpenAI shows the mad capital demands of the AI arms race – …

AI and network infrastructure – Lumen is rolling out new ‘AI corridors’ across its US fiber network to accelerate performant connectivity for AI workloads.

The big news (the only news, some might say) today (last night) is that Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, has delivered again – beating expectations on the top ($68.13 …

More private 5G for you, while I’m on a roll. RCR has covered the Cargill story for years, and news about its 50-site rollout has been doing the rounds; but …

Another interesting pre-MWC press dump; this time, from Spain-based operator group Telefónica, which has a couple of news items about network automation, including a full review of its Level 4 …

RCR (London) was on holiday, and wasn’t invited anyway – maybe because of all the musical chairs at RCR Towers recently. So maybe there’s a reason to write-off Ericsson’s pre-MWC …

It’s Friday afternoon, half the team has clocked off, and I’ve got places to be – and Robert Curran at Appledore Research can say it better. Here’s his review of …

Ah, nice to be writing about private 5G again – even if only briefly. Good sesh at UPTIME today from Vodafone Business, linked below. (Hats off to Nanda, everyone.)

If you like hardcore, you might know there’s a review of the 1998 album The Shape of Punk to Come on the fan site RateYourMusic that says: “Saw this in …