AI coding, vibe coding and agentic swarm have made a dramatic and astonishing recent market entrance, with the AI Code Tools market valued at $4.8 billion and expected to grow at a 23% annual rate.  Enterprises are grappling with AI coding agents and what do about expensive human coders. They don’t lack for advice.  OpenAI’s CEO estimates that AI can perform over 50% of what human engineers can do.  Six months ago, Anthropic’s CEO said that AI would write 90% of code in six months.  Meta’s CEO said he believes AI will replace mid-level engineers “soon.” Judging by recent tech layoffs, it seems many executives are embracing that advice.Software engineers and data scientists are among the most expensive salary lines at many companies, and business and technology leaders may be tempted to replace them with AI. However, recent high-profile failures demonstrate that engineers and their expertise remain valuable, even as AI continues to make impressive advances.SaaStr […]

AI has emerged as one of the top agenda items for India’s telecom incumbents, Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea (Vi), with each operator extensively using the technology for customer service, spam and scam detection, and for anomaly detection and resolution for their fifth-generation (5G) networks.

While Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea and state-run BSNL are carrying out the trials from Haryana, Bharti Airtel is testing the service from Himachal Pradesh.

The developers of Terminal-Bench, a benchmark suite for evaluating the performance of autonomous AI agents on real-world terminal-based tasks, have released version 2.0 alongside Harbor, a new framework for testing, improving and optimizing AI agents in containerized environments. The dual release aims to address long-standing pain points in testing and optimizing AI agents, particularly those built to operate autonomously in realistic developer environments.With a more difficult and rigorously verified task set, Terminal-Bench 2.0 replaces version 1.0 as the standard for assessing frontier model capabilities. Harbor, the accompanying runtime framework, enables developers and researchers to scale evaluations across thousands of cloud containers and integrates with both open-source and proprietary agents and training pipelines.“Harbor is the package we wish we had had while making Terminal-Bench," wrote co-creator Alex Shaw on X. "It’s for agent, model, and benchmark developers and […]

Another Monthly Drop in Robocalls: Report Robocalls dropped significantly last month, according to YouMail’s latest Robocall Index report. During October, U.S. consumers received just under 3.8 billion robocalls, a 7.7% decrease from September, and nearly a 24% drop from October of 2024. The report said thre were an average of 120.6 million robocalls/day and 1,396 robocalls/second, down 10.7% from September’s average Telecompetitor

By Viet Nguyen, President, 5G Americas (Nov. 2025) When you stream a high-definition movie, join a lag-free video call, or navigate a new city with real-time maps, the experience feels The post Beyond Automation: How AI Is Giving Mobile Networks a Mind of Their Own appeared first on 5G Americas.

National Advertising Review Board Recommends AT&T Modify iPhone Claim New York, NY – November 6, 2025 – A panel of BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Review Board (NARB), the appellate advertising body of BBB National Programs, has recommended that AT&T Services, Inc. modify its advertising to avoid conveying a false message regarding eligibility for an iPhone device offer. The underlying National Advertising Division (NAD) case Telecompetitor

Altice USA Rebrands as Optimum Communications Yesterday, Altice USA announced it will rebrand as Optimum Communications, Inc., effective today, marking a milestone in its identity as a broadband provider. The company will also transition its New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol from “ATUS” to “OPTU” beginning November 19. According to the company’s announcement, the rebrand reflects its commitment to a unified Telecompetitor

T-Mobile “Text to 911” Available to Everyone With a Compatible Phone T-Mobile is making its Starlink-based “Text to 911” service available to off-grid wireless users — even those who subscribe to AT&T or Verizon — as long as they have a compatible phone. T-Satellite with Starlink, a service that makes the low Earth orbit (LEO) provider’s 650-plus satellite fleet available to the carrier’s subscribers, was introduced Telecompetitor

Charter’s Spectrum Fiber Network Surpasses 1M Miles of Infrastructure November 6, 2025 — A digital world means connectivity matters everywhere, from America’s biggest cities to its smallest towns. Today, as a result of expansion into new markets and increased coverage in and around the Company’s existing footprint, Spectrum’s network has surpassed 1 million miles of infrastructure, connecting communities big and small, rural and urban, Telecompetitor