Technology Analyst and co-founder of 650 Group
Nokia today announced Mobile Core Early Access, a live, hosted environment that lets telecommunications providers and enterprises evaluate the software behind AI-era mobile core networks before committing to deployment. The program launched in June with a select group of 30 companies; with today’s announcement, registration is now open to the… Read More »Nokia Opens Its Mobile Core Early Access Program to the Whole Industry
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / August 30, 2026 On August 11, 2026, xAI introduced Grok Bot, an early-beta product it frames as a roster of always-on AI agents that each run on a cloud computer of their own, sign into the customer’s existing tools, and carry multi-step jobs through… Read More »Grok Bot: Always-On Agent Compute and the Infrastructure It Demands
In recent weeks, Cato Networks made clear it is deepening its position in AI security while building on its SASE foundation. The company launched Agentic Threat Prevention, disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in the Cursor IDE through its Cato AI Labs, and reported that annualized recurring revenue has now passed $415… Read More »Cato Networks Pivots to Agentic AI Security as ARR Passes $415M
Celona today announced Orion, a new enterprise platform that unifies private 5G, Wi-Fi, public cellular, and satellite into a single wireless fabric designed for AI-native operations. Celona is positioning Orion as its Agentic Converged Wireless Platform, creating a new category that brings together previously separate wireless domains under a unified… Read More »Celona Launches Orion, an Agentic Converged Wireless Platform
At Black Hat USA 2026, Cribl unwrapped a set of AI-era security capabilities for its existing platform. The headline is the AI Observability app, which puts token counts, spending, model uptake, and risk into a single view across teams and applications and flags sensitive data as it enters prompts and… Read More »Cribl Announces AI Observability at Black Hat
This week, Cribl announced it is acquiring CardinalOps, an agentic detection-engineering company, in a move that extends the firm beyond pipeline and routing into security operations. In the press release, Cribl positions itself as the AI Platform for Telemetry and frames the deal as adding detection capabilities that help customers… Read More »Cribl Enters SIEM Security Market
This week at AMD Advancing AI Day in San Francisco (July 22–23, 2026), Arrcus and UfiSpace announced an integrated networking solution for AMD-powered AI infrastructure, shown alongside GIGABYTE’s GIGAPOD rack from Giga Computing built on AMD EPYC and AMD Instinct platforms. Arrcus is a leading networking software company; its ArcOS… Read More »Arrcus and UfiSpace Announce Ethernet System for AMD Instinct
by by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / July 19, 2026 Fortinet announced new capabilities for its FortiEndpoint unified endpoint platform this week, designed to address a problem nearly every enterprise IT team is now grappling with: how to manage and secure the explosion of AI applications and agents running on… Read More »Fortinet Expands FortiEndpoint with New Capabilities for the AI Era
At HPE Discover 2026, AI took center stage, as expected. The HPE / Juniper integration is proceeding.
We just returned from Extreme Connect 2026 in Orlando, Florida, where Extreme Networks convened customers, partners, and industry leaders for its flagship event and used the occasion to make three formal announcements that underscore the company’s sharpened focus on AI-powered autonomous networking. The company had numerous impressive customers on stage,… Read More »Extreme Networks Advances its AI Offerings at Extreme Connect 2026
