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An OpenAI-led consortium of tech giants including AMD , Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia have unveiled a new networking protocol designed to address network congestion, a problem that has always existed but has been exacerbated by the massive amounts of data required for AI processing. The new protocol, called Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), is for training models on 100,000+ GPUs by d…

A power outage triggered by a thermal event inside an Amazon Web Services data center in Northern Virginia disrupted Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes in the US-EAST-1 region late on Thursday, the cloud provider confirmed in updates posted to its Health Dashboard. In an incident report timestamped 5:25 PM PDT (00:25 UTC Friday), AWS said it had spotted is…

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, released earlier this year , showed that AI systems could identify and probe network vulnerabilities at a speed that traditional patch management cycles were not designed to match. Security teams that had operated on 30-to-90-day remediation windows began reassessing that assumption. That’s the challenge that network automation vendor Gluware is taking on. This …

AMD has launched the latest in its Instinct enterprise GPU accelerators, the MI350, which are designed to fit the data center infrastructure customers already own. Targeted at agentic AI, Instinct MI350P PCIe cards are dual-slot drop-in cards for standard air-cooled servers. They are built to deploy inference on premises within customer’s current data center power, cooling, and rack infrastructur…

It’s mostly good news for Arista Networks, which reported total first-quarter revenue of $2.71 billion, up 35.1% compared to the year-ago quarter. The vendor raised its forecasted growth to 27.7%, aiming now for full-year 2026 revenue of $11.5 billion. Arista also raised its AI revenue target to $3.5 billion, effectively saying it would double its AI sales this year. Less positive is the supply-c…

Lumen Technologies has agreed to acquire Alkira, a cloud-native network-as-a-service ( NaaS ) platform, for $475 million in cash. The deal targets a coverage gap that has defined enterprise networking for several years. Carriers including Lumen have built out north-south connectivity, the path between on-premises environments and cloud providers, but east-west traffic flowing between clouds and d…

HPE is adding autonomous networking capabilities to its Mist and Aruba Central packages to enable those systems to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues in real time without human intervention. “The self-driving network is no longer aspirational; it’s operational,” said Rami Rahim, executive vice president, president and general manager, networking, HPE, in a statement . “This fundamentally change…

Netskope this week introduced an AI-driven platform layer to ease the operational burden on security and network operations, as enterprises struggle to manage alert volumes and infrastructure complexity . Netskope One AgentSkope is an agentic AI framework designed to automate security and network operations workflows within Netskope’s SASE platform . The platform can automate tasks such as alert …

Intel for years chopped critical products including CPUs, GPUs and networking gear to cut corporate fat and get back into shape. Many cuts pre-date the appointment last year of Lip-Bu Tan as CEO. Now, Tan is placing a long-term bet beyond the current crop of AI chips and doubling down on quantum processors and neuromorphic chips, which survived Intel’s earlier product cuts. Tan has now tapped com…

Enterprise companies looking to build or upgrade their data center switches, or even get technical support, best be prepared to wait in line behind AI-first providers that are chewing up most of the available resources. That’s the upshot of a recent Gartner report, which paints a grim picture of the data center switch market for the next year. Switch vendors are “aggressively pivoting resources” …

Extreme Networks is adding new AI agent software to its product portfolio, making significant upgrades to its Platform ONE management package, and extending its Wi-Fi 7 portfolio. At its Extreme Connect 2026 user conference, the company unveiled the second generation of its AI agent package , Extreme Agent One, which is designed to detect and autonomously act on network problems. It also debuted …

ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services are handling any performance challenges and provides Network World with a weekly roundup of events that impact service delivery. Read on to see the latest analysis, and stop back next week for another update on internet and cloud traffic performance. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, includ…

Broadcom on Tuesday launched VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, which it described as an AI- and Kubernetes-native private cloud platform with integrated security and mixed compute infrastructure support across AMD, Intel and Nvidia. Prashanth Shenoy , VP of product marketing for Broadcom’s VCF division, said in a briefing last week that the new release has three major areas of focus: Helping cus…

At its Think conference on Monday night, IBM announced what it calls a new operating model for the agentic enterprise. It encompasses coordinated AI agents that execute across the business, real-time connected data, end-to-end automated workflows, and hybrid, including IBM Sovereign Core. “Your AI is only as good as your data, which informs everything that we’ve been doing across both AI and hybr…

Belden (NYSE: BDC ) has agreed to acquire Ruckus Networks from Vistance Networks (NASDAQ: VISN ) for $1.846 billion in cash. It is the latest ownership change for a Wi-Fi and enterprise switching vendor that has changed hands more times in the past decade than most networking vendors change their management platforms. Founded in 2004 as Ruckus Wireless, the company went public on the New York Sto…