April 9, 2025
Google Sets the Stage for Hybrid AI with Cloud Next Announcements
There’s been a lot of discussion recently on how AI applications are evolving but based on many of the announcements that Google made at their Cloud Next event in Las Vegas, it seems increasingly clear that hybrid is where many of these developments are headed. To be clear, Google made an enormously and impressively broad range of announcements at Cloud Next and not a single press release specifically mentioned Hybrid AI. However, when you take a step back and analyze how several of the pieces fit together and look ahead to where the trends the company are driving appear to be going, the concept of GenAI-powered applications (and agents) that leverage a combination of the public cloud, enterprise private clouds and even smart devices—that is, Hybrid AI—appear inevitable.
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February 11, 2025
T-Mobile's new Starlink offering makes satellite phones mainstream
The recent Super Bowl brought with it lots of surprises and, once again, a few of them came from the very pricey ads shown during the broadcast. One of the most intriguing was T-Mobile’s spot describing free satellite smartphone service available to customers of any major wireless carrier, including AT&T and Verizon (as well as T-Mobile, of course). In other words, T-Mobile — in conjunction with satellite provider Starlink — is essentially introducing satellite service when you’re in an area without traditional cellular service to just about anyone in the US with a mobile phone that’s not more than about 4 years old. There is, not surprisingly, some fine print to the offer, however.
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