Telcos Try To Hop On The AI Train, Anthropic Wars With The Pentagon, And Agents Threaten Microsoft
siliconANGLE, Friday, March 6th, 2026
Can telecommunications companies leverage artificial intelligence to become, at long last, more than dumb pipes? Or, as so often has happened, will they get left behind in the coming platform shift?
Maybe third or 15th time's the charm, and they certainly tried to make their case at this week's MWC in Barcelona, with help from a variety of tech providers. SiliconANGLE and theCUBE had all the coverage, below. For a deeper dive, check out Dave Vellante's and John Furrier's Breaking Analysis on telcos' prospects for a once-in-a-generation infrastructure reset as AI factories move to the network edge. And Intellyx's Jason Bloomberg provided a roundup of the most important innovations he saw.