Tony Stoyanov is CTO and co-founder of EliseAIIn the 2010s, tech companies chased staff-level specialists: Backend engineers, data scientists, system architects. That model worked when technology evolved slowly. Specialists knew their craft, could deliver quickly and built careers on predictable foundations like cloud infrastructure or the latest JS frameworkThen AI went mainstream.The pace of change has exploded. New technologies appear and mature in less than a year. You can’t hire someone who has been building AI agents for five years, as the technology hasn’t existed for that long. The people thriving today aren’t those with the longest résumés; they’re the ones who learn fast, adapt fast and act without waiting for direction. Nowhere is this transformation more evident than in software engineering, which has likely experienced the most dramatic shift of all, evolving faster than almost any other field of work.How AI Is rewriting the rulesAI has lowered the barrier to […]

On December 19, 2025, the White House issued a Presidential memorandum outlining America’s commitment to winning the 6G race. Among several items, President Trump’s new “Winning the 6G Race” memo The post 5G Americas responds to “Winning the 6G Race” Presidential memo appeared first on 5G Americas.

India's telecom footprint expanded rapidly during the year. Internet connections crossed the one-billion mark to reach over 100 crore, a nearly fourfold increase from 2014.

Meanwhile, capital spending on telecom infrastructure more than tripled to ₹18,032 crore, up from ₹5,424 crore last year, as the government increased investment in BharatNet fibre rollouts. This rise in receipts pushed net cash flow to ₹55,290 crore, more than double the previous year's ₹26,060 crore.

While Gemini 3 is still making waves, Google's not taking the foot off the gas in terms of releasing new models.Yesterday, the company released FunctionGemma, a specialized 270-million parameter AI model designed to solve one of the most persistent bottlenecks in modern application development: reliability at the edge. Unlike general-purpose chatbots, FunctionGemma is engineered for a single, critical utility—translating natural language user commands into structured code that apps and devices can actually execute, all without connecting to the cloud.The release marks a significant strategic pivot for Google DeepMind and the Google AI Developers team. While the industry continues to chase trillion-parameter scale in the cloud, FunctionGemma is a bet on "Small Language Models" (SLMs) running locally on phones, browsers, and IoT devices. For AI engineers and enterprise builders, this model offers a new architectural primitive: a privacy-first "router" that can handle complex logic […]

2025 was supposed to be the year of the AI agent, right? Not quite, acknowledge Google Cloud and Replit — two big players in the AI agent space and partners in the "vibe coding" movement — at a recent VB Impact Series event.Even as they build out agentic tools themselves, leaders from the two companies say the capabilities aren’t quite there yet. This constrained reality comes down to struggles with legacy workflows, fragmented data, and immature governance models. Also, enterprises fundamentally misunderstand that agents aren’t like other technologies: They require a fundamental rethink and reworking of workflows and processes. When enterprises are building agents to automate work, “most of them are toy examples,” Amjad Masad, CEO and founder of Replit, said during the event. “They get excited, but when they start rolling it out, it's not really working very well.”Building agents based on Replit’s own mistakesReliability and integration, rather than intelligence […]

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Updated, comprehensive list: NTIA BEAD approvals The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is reviewing and approving the 50 states’ and six territories’ Final Proposals for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program. In this article, we will keep a running list of states and territories whose Final Proposals have been approved and those that are still pending approval. The Telecompetitor

Senators introduce a blueprint for allocation of BEAD non-deployment funds The battle over whether and how states will use non-deployment funds from the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program shows no sign of being settled. This week, senators from two states introduced a bill aimed at creating a structure for allocating the funds. The bill was introduced by Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) and Telecompetitor

Supply chain intelligence firm TrendForce said in a recent report that memory prices will surge in the first quarter of 2026 (Q1 2026). “As BoM (bill-of-materials) cost pressure reaches a critical point, electronics OEMs will be forced to halt price cuts and lower specifications,” it cautioned.