Siemens and Infineon Technologies teamed to tackle a little reported but quite important element of digital transformations, namely protecting electrical supplies in data centres, production facilities and battery storage systems.

The pair are working to provide semiconductor breaker technology, which Siemens describes as providing protection for electronic devices, circuits and components in the event of a short-circuit or power surge.

Infineon is to provide silicon carbide power modules which Siemens intends to install in its semiconductor circuit breakers. The German-headquartered company stated the move would “enhance the efficiency, power density and reliability” of the products.

Siemens explained the lack of mechanical elements in semiconductor circuit breakers can cut the reaction time from milliseconds in traditional set-ups to microseconds.

It argued the speed boost is “essential for direct current grids” and would deliver a much-needed improvement in protection for systems used in manufacturing and AI data centres.

Andreas Weisl, EVP and chief sales officer for Industrial and Infrastructure at Infineon (pictured, right), said the importance of swift protection is growing due to the increased electrification of data centres and factories.

Siemens Smart Infrastructure CEO for Electrical Products Markus Grabmeier explained many industrial facilities are keen to tap the lower energy consumption of direct current power supplies and further boost environmental protection goals by using batteries to cut peak power use.

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Alphabet’s Google reportedly placed an order with Intel to manufacture more than 3 million of its specialised AI chips in 2028, a move which increases pressure on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC).

The Information reported Google plans to use Intel to manufacture some of its tensor processing units (TPUs) after months of testing the chipmaker’s manufacturing capabilities.

Google Cloud’s TPUs are custom chips purpose-built for AI and optimised for training and inference of advanced AI models.

The news agency’s sources state the move reflects mounting strain on TSMC, which is struggling to meet surging demand for its foundry capacity, pushing customers to seek alternatives.

The deal marks another significant win for Intel after CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who spent much of last year shoring up Intel’s balance sheet through major external investments, now appears to be delivering on operational improvements which seemed unlikely a year ago.

In April 2026, Google expanded its long‑running partnership with Intel, committing to use multiple generations of the chipmaker’s CPUs in its AI data centres.

The same month, Intel revealed a plan to join Elon Musk’s Terafab AI chip project to build processors which would power the billionaire’s orbital data centres and humanoid robots.

Last month, the tech giant struck a joint venture agreement with asset management company Blackstone to create a US-based AI cloud company, giving a boost to its TPU manufacturing.

The Information also said Nvidia is evaluating Intel’s manufacturing technology for a forthcoming processor which could combine four graphics chips into a single unit.

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BT claimed to be the first UK company to join Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, a move it said strengthens cybersecurity for its networks and enables better protection against the latest AI threats for customers.

The operator made the announcement at the UK Government’s AI Adoption Summit at London Tech Week, with the country committing to accelerate AI usage across the economy.

BT stated its membership to Project Glasswing will give it access to Anthropic’s frontier AI model Claude Mythos Preview, strengthening protection against cybersecurity threats for its network and customers.

Anthropic announced last week it had expanded access to Mythos to 150 new companies across 15 countries, after initially restricting it to a group of private technology players.

BT explained Project Glasswing brings together “critical infrastructure providers” to secure data and systems, allowing organisations to use Anthropic’s safe AI systems to identify vulnerabilities and help to fix them before criminals can take advantage.

In a speech during the summit, BT CEO Allison Kirkby outlined the critical role of connectivity in ensuring the UK can seize the growth potential of AI, emphasising the operator’s commitment to working with the government to support “sovereign British AI capability so that the UK can be an AI maker and not just a taker”.

In line with its participation in Project Glasswing, BT said it prevents more than 4 million cyberattacks across its network every day.

CEO of BT Business Jon James added AI is changing cybersecurity fast and “businesses need trusted partners who can help them stay one step ahead”.

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The UK government gave technology companies three months to switch on device-level tools blocking children from taking, sending or viewing nude images, warning action will be taken if they fail to do so.

The UK Home Office said companies including Apple and Google must implement built-in protections across smartphones and tablets used by children in a move it claimed would make Britain “the first country in the world where it is impossible for children to take, share or view naked pictures on their devices”

If tech companies do not act within the deadline, the government plans to enforce legislation mandating the activation of the technology. Proposed penalties could include fines, with criminal liability for tech bosses under consideration “as a last resort”.

On privacy, the government framed the proposal as on-device blocking, stating there would be “no data collection, no monitoring and no reporting”. Users over the age of 18 would still be able to access adult content by providing proof of age.

The initiative aims to stop predators from exploiting underage victims through their devices and limiting children’s access to pornography. The Home Office noted 91% of online child sexual abuse reports recorded in 2024 contained self-generated content, adding children as young as five were being groomed or coerced into creating explicit images.

Speaking at London Tech Week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer (pictured) said the industry must address the issue as a matter of urgency. “If we are serious about unlocking the opportunities that tech can bring, then we must also be serious about preventing our children from those who look to abuse it – the online predators,” he explained, arguing technology should “adapt to the needs of society, not the other way round”.

Starmer warned if technology players “choose not, then we will act and we will change the law”.

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Finnish enterprise and public sector users were promised better telecoms connectivity after local network operator Voimatel tapped Eutelsat for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite coverage.

The French headquartered satellite service provider stated its LEO connectivity would be integrated with Voimatel’s terrestrial network to improve coverage in Arctic and high-latitude areas of Finland, boosting the resiliency and redundancy of critical communications.

Voimatel describes itself as the builder and operator of fixed and mobile networks: Eutelsat expanded, stating the company provides services to operators, utilities and public sector groups.

The LEO coverage opens remote and rural areas where terrestrial installations are trickier, though Eutelsat noted the arrangement would also benefit urban parts of Finland.

Voimatel CEO Mikko Heinonen said the low-latency and Arctic coverage provided by Eutelsat’s LEO birds were important elements in its decision to work with the French company.

The coverage will “complement our existing infrastructure capabilities and support the evolving connectivity requirements of our customers”, he said.

Eva Bisgaard, president of Eutelsat’s Connectivity business unit, said the deal is another example of “the growing role of LEO connectivity in supporting critical telecom infrastructure”.

It also adds to a recent run of agreements involving Eutelsat’s geosynchronous satellites struck in April and May.

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Interview: AT&T completed a controlled introduction phase of its cloud RAN deployment, with roughly 25 sites running live traffic on Intel’s Sapphire Rapids processors as it plans to aggressively scale deployment when Intel’s next-generation Granite platform arrives over the coming months.

The Sapphire deployment is currently handling the TDD layers of the network, which represent the largest share of traffic, but not yet the full stack.

Rob Soni (pictured), VP of the operator’s RAN architecture, told Mobile World Live (MWL) Granite, which is already in AT&T’s labs, will enable a full stack covering FDD, TDD, NR and LTE from a single server design.

“This is all coming in phased pieces through the fall and early next year,” he said. “We plan to scale more aggressively on Granite than we did on Sapphire.”

He said AT&T expects to move from a few hundred Sapphire sites to thousands on Granite through 2026 and into 2028.

Performance on the Sapphire sites is matching traditional RAN on call drop rates and throughput, Soni said, and the team is beginning to utilise the platform’s promise of faster feature delivery.

The leading example is AI-driven link adaptation, developed with Ericsson, which replaces rules-based scheduling algorithms with a deep neural network.

Trials are showing roughly 10% gains in spectrum efficiency and 15% improvements in individual user throughput, with further benefits expected as AT&T tunes the global Ericsson model to its own network morphology.

“We’ve done a lot of trailing with the kind of global model of Ericsson,” Soni explained. “We’re now in the process of tuning the model to the AT&T morphology, the AT&T usage. That will change the nature, and we expect there to be more gain.”

Halfway point

In cellular networks, Soni stated a base station must determine on every transmission frame which users to serve, what modulation and coding scheme to use and how to balance competing demands across the spectrum.

It is a computationally intense optimisation problem, and the traditional approach has been to encode engineering judgment into static rule sets. The AI model Ericsson developed learns from network behaviour and adapts more fluidly to changing conditions.

Link adaptation is a critical algorithm for determining the overall multiple user performance in a cellular network,” he stated.

Rival T-Mobile US stated in May 2026 it is also trialling Ericsson’s AI-native scheduler with link adaptation on live 5G-Advanced traffic, but Soni noted AT&T has been trialling it since December 2025.

Soni told MWL AT&T is just past the halfway point for switching out Nokia’s RAN gear for Ericsson’s as part of a five year plan to transition 70% of its network traffic to run on open platforms by end of year.

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The Norwegian Competition Authority cleared Telenor to buy fibre company GlobalConnect’s domestic consumer business, subject to a handful of conditions including offloading some assets.

Telenor is required to divest fibre infrastructure at addresses both companies already serve. This will impact approximately 6,000 customers.

Around 9,000 GlobalConnect customers using Telenor’s network through resale agreements are also set to be transferred to another provider.

The competition authority’s third requirement involves giving rivals access to the fibre network being acquired, as is the case with Telenor’s existing network.

Telenor president and CEO Benedicte Schilbred Fasmer highlighted the deal strengthens its position in the market and “is good for customers and for market development”.

“Whilst we disagree that remedies were necessary, we are pleased to have reached a resolution,” the executive added, noting the transaction would bolster its customer numbers by 125,000 and take its market share in Norway’s consumer fibre market from 22% to 29%.

The deal is expected to complete in the second-half of the year, with a gradual customer transition afterwards.

Telenor noted the initial NOK6 billion ($634 million) purchase price would be adjusted after it meets the remedies and disclosed at that time.

GlobalConnect plans to continue to serve its base of 12,000 business customers in Norway, spanning enterprises of various sizes, the public sector and global cloud companies.

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AMD unveiled plans to invest up to £2 billion over five years to accelerate AI innovation and research across the UK, using the opening of London Tech Week to spotlight a push on sovereign infrastructure and research partnerships.

The US-based chip company said the commitment aims to support advanced computing, scientific research and workforce development, while expanding access to the infrastructure needed for AI-led discovery and public sector innovation.

AMD CEO Lisa Su said the UK has “the talent, research excellence and ambition to help lead the next era of AI,” adding the company would work with government, academia and industry to expand access to compute infrastructure needed to “advance sovereign AI, accelerate discovery and drive long-term economic growth”.

As part of the plan, AMD announced a slew of AI-focused partnerships. The company teamed with Imperial College London to advance computational science and research spanning areas including healthcare innovation, climate modelling and AI optimisation.

AMD and Dell Technologies will also work with the University of Cambridge on national AI infrastructure projects, including the Zenith AI supercomputer and Sunrise fusion AI system to support AI-driven scientific work across areas including healthcare research, materials science and fusion research.

In addition, the chipmaker will work with photonic networking company Oriole Networks on the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) Scaling Inference Lab, a national testbed for AI hardware focused on targeting infrastructure bottlenecks.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves called AMD’s investment “a major vote of confidence in Britain’s place as a global AI superpower”, while technology secretary Liz Kendall added it reflected “the strength of Britain’s talent, research and ambition in AI”.

London Tech Week starts today (8 June) and runs until 12 June, bringing together technology companies, investors and policymakers to discuss digital innovation across the UK.

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Ericsson dug deeper into a mining automation deal with Swedish equipment maker Epiroc, adding LTE and 5G equipment distribution to a near decade-long research arrangement.

The companies anticipate ever-growing demand for complete operational technology systems spanning mining equipment and connectivity. Ericsson cited ease of access to digitalisation techniques as among the benefits the expanded deal offers.

Epiroc Digital Solutions division president Paul Bergstrom said there is a rising need for connectivity systems from mining companies as they “advance automation and digitalisation throughout their operations”.

The equipment manufacturer plans to add Ericsson private 5G systems to its own telematics, remote control and position sensing products.

Last month, Epiroc advanced a deep automation product range with systems for drilling and material handling, expanding a portfolio offered since 2023 which it stated helped mines “unlock millions of tonnes of ore” they would not otherwise have been able to safely recover.

Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions head of product and engineering Pankaj Malhotra said the updated deal with Epiroc ties into the operational goals involving safety, productivity and efficiency.

The pair is “helping mining companies modernise operations at scale”, he said.

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French operators Bouygues Telecom, Free-Iliad Group and Orange reached a deal with Altice France to acquire SFR for a total enterprise value of €20.4 billion, sparking a major shake-up of the country’s telecoms sector.

The three would-be acquirers signed a memorandum of understanding with Altice France less than two months after entering into exclusive talks. An initial offer of €17 billion was rejected in October 2025.

Terms of the proposed deal remained unchanged from what was laid out in April, with Bouygues taking a 42% stake, Free-Iliad 31% and Orange 27%.

SFR’s consumer mobile and broadband units will be carved up between the consortium, with Bouygues to take control of the B2B segment.

With the deal expected to be subject to intense national and European regulation, breakup fees of between €100 million and €2 billion have been agreed, depending on the reason for any collapse and timing of termination of the deal.

Regulatory scrutiny is likely to be fierce because the transaction will reduce the number of players in the market from four to three, though there are signs traditional European regulatory resistance to deals which do so are beginning to lessen and the European Commission indicated an easing of corporate merger rules earlier this year.

The companies stated the proposed transaction would create value for all stakeholders, and ensure continued development of France’s infrastructure and digital ecosystem.

Combining SFR’s assets “is expected to generate significant synergies”, benefitting consumers and the overall digital ecosystem by bolstering the capacity to invest.

A consultation period will now be opened with relevant employee representative bodies. Definitive legal documents are expected to be signed in the second half of 2026 with completion expected in the second half of 2027, following regulatory clearance.

Big challenge
Kester Mann, director of consumer and connectivity at CCS Insight, believes the deal paves the way for the greatest shake-up in the French telecoms sector since the arrival of Iliad in 2012.

“The agreement appears a successful outcome for all parties. Bouygues, Orange and Iliad each gain important new assets in their pursuit for greater scale, while eliminating a major rival will reduce the competitive intensity of the market.”

He warned the biggest challenge would be to convince competition authorities the deal is positive for the French market.

“Several years ago, this would have felt like a herculean task. But the regulatory tide has steadily been turning favour of consolidation in Europe following recent deals approved in the UK and Spain. Although a lengthy probe is likely, it is surely odds-on to get the green light,” he added.

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Meta Platforms is reportedly exploring a potential equity raise worth tens of billions of dollars, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg hunts for fresh capital to fund sweeping AI aspirations.

Financial Times (FT) reported the social media giant’s executives are exploring creative ways to boost funds for AI-related capital expenditure.

The publication stated CFO Susan Li is leading the discussions alongside Dina Powell McCormick, who moved from Meta’s board in January to take on the newly created role of president, with a specific focus on AI infrastructure financing and longer-term planning.

In its Q1 earnings report released in April, Meta raised its 2026 capex guidance range from $115 billion-$135 billion to $125 billion-$145 billion.

Zuckerberg is focused on developing so-called superintelligence which he believes will help humanity accelerate its rate of progress.

A person familiar with the discussions told FT it is premature to say if Meta has decided anything, but all financing options are still on the table.

A representative for Meta told Mobile World Live FT’s reporting “is pure speculation”.

“We’ve been clear that huge opportunities lie ahead in AI, and we’ll continue focusing on raising capital in the most flexible ways to support that.”

The potential offering comes as the US equity markets are experiencing a historic surge of activity. Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to raise as much as $86 billion in an IPO next week, while Anthropic confidentially filed for a listing and OpenAI is also preparing to go public.

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The Linux Foundation launched the open-source Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) six months ago to ensure protocols are standardised across enterprises, hyperscalers, and telecommunications companies.

The December launch spanned 49 companies, including co-founders Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, with additional support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare and Bloomberg.

As of 3 June, it now has more than 200 member companies and is growing at twice the pace of the Linux Foundations CNCF Kubernetes project, AAIF executive director Mazin Gilbert told Mobile World Live.

“I think what is new that I have not seen before is that in every foundation I’ve been part of before, we used to go and ask, convince companies to join,” Gilbert said. “The phenomenon we’re seeing here is the opposite.

“Companies are coming on their own accord,” he added. “No outreach. They all want to have a say in this ecosystem.”

Being open source, all the members of AAIF benefit from the development of the tools and interfaces.

As the industry moves beyond chatbots and LLMs, Gilbert explained stakeholders need to agree on standard protocols and interfaces to deliver on agentic AI’s value.

Gilbert, whose career includes 22 years at AT&T and over four at Google, said there are roughly two million open-source models currently available, with open variants now only four months behind closed ones.

The infrastructure to run them is maturing fast but connecting those models to real applications, such as to self-healing networks, customer care systems and robotic platforms, requires standardised plumbing which nobody has built to date in a neutral, durable way.

“This foundation was created to ensure that the tools, the plumbing, the protocols are standardised,” Gilbert explained.

“I don’t need to know which language model out of the two million I should use,” he added. “I should be able to plug and play into any of them without any additional new code.”

He stated the real breakthrough will come from creating standard interfaces which enable AI agents to connect consistently with networks, databases, applications, microservices, other agents, and development tools.

When the plumbing is standardised, it will unlock a new ecosystem of interoperable agent-based systems, much like common internet protocols enabled the modern internet.

“We call it the internet of agents because now, suddenly, just like the internet, you can start to communicate, you can work with each other,” he said.

agentgateway
With the focus on plumbing, the AAIF welcomed agentgateway as its fourth hosted open-source project.

It is built on the A2A and MCP protocols and functions as what Gilbert calls a traffic light: routing agent-to-LLMa and agent-to-microservice communications, enforcing authentication, tracking token usage, and monitoring inter-agent channels.

For telcos, it offers a concrete path toward agentic network management without rebuilding their existing microservice estates from scratch.

“As far as the agents and the LLMs are concerned,” Gilbert said, “they look at the gateway as the endpoint.”

AI market
Setting aside the user application layer, Gilbert frames agentic AI as a four-layer stack: starting with AI-optimised hardware such as GPUs, TPUs and NPUs: moving up to AI-native infrastructure with Kubernetes, containers, service mech and data bases: then to foundation models, inference and model serving: and finally to the fourth agent applications layer where planning, reasoning and self-healing functions are expected to develop quickly over the coming months.

“We need to start populating what layer four is,” he said. “I expect the key work that we are doing now and over the next six months is to really make sure that we are looking at the agentic AI stack end-to-end.”

The roadmap for the next six months includes scaling 10 to 15 projects, a doubling of the working groups from the current eight, and the first production-scale deployments from member companies.

“We’re already starting to see some companies talking about thousands of agents already in production,” added Gilbert.

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Amazon se ha comprometido a invertir más de 10.000 millones de euros en la modernización de sus instalaciones en Europa con robótica de nueva generación, en el marco de un plan más amplio para renovar y ampliar su red de operaciones en el continente.

El anuncio se ha producido en el evento Delivering the Future, celebrado en Londres, donde la empresa ha indicado que prevé crear nuevos puestos de trabajo en la región, al tiempo que recurre a la robótica para extender las opciones de entrega en pocas horas a más ciudades e invierte en la formación de sus empleados.

El compromiso refleja la apuesta de la firma por utilizar la IA y la robótica en apoyo de su plantilla, con el objetivo de asumir las tareas más repetitivas y físicamente exigentes para que los trabajadores puedan dedicarse a funciones de mayor cualificación.

En el apartado de robótica de nueva generación, Amazon ha presentado Proteus, un robot autónomo mejorado capaz de trasladar artículos entre distintas instalaciones. Gracias a los avances en IA, los empleados pueden dirigirlo mediante indicaciones en lenguaje natural, sin necesidad de comandos técnicos ni interfaces de programación. Una vez recibe la instrucción, el robot determina la prioridad, la ruta y el momento de ejecución.

Proteus está diseñado para asumir tareas físicas exigentes, transportar carros de gran peso y cubrir largas distancias. En la actualidad se encuentra en fase piloto en los laboratorios de Amazon, con un despliegue previsto para el primer semestre de 2027.

Con este desembolso de 10.000 millones de euros, Amazon también ampliará Vulcan —su primer robot dotado de sentido del tacto— y STARK, un nuevo sistema robótico que trabaja en paralelo con los empleados y que estará operativo en 15 instalaciones europeas antes de 2027.

La semana pasada, Jensen Huang, consejero delegado de Nvidia, también destacó el potencial de la robótica industrial al presentar un nuevo modelo para el ámbito académico con hardware de Unitree y Sharpa.

Con información de Kavit Majithia.

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Los analistas esperan que Apple aprovechará su Conferencia Mundial de Desarrolladores (WWDC), convocada para este lunes 8 de junio, para reorientar su estrategia de inteligencia artificial y presentar una renovación a fondo del asistente Siri, todo ello en el marco de la próxima salida de Tim Cook como consejero delegado.

Antes del evento, Ben Wood, analista jefe de CCS Insight, describe la WWDC como un momento decisivo para Apple Intelligence y apunta que Siri lleva años siendo un lastre para la empresa, lo que convierte su renovación en el eje central del intento de Apple de reencauzar su relato en materia de IA.

Bloomberg asegura que Apple presentará una versión renovada del asistente, con capacidades conversacionales mejoradas, conciencia del contenido en pantalla, mayor control sobre las aplicaciones, la posibilidad de ejecutar varios comandos en un solo mensaje y una aplicación dedicada.

Wood espera que Apple enmarque los cambios en torno a capacidades de IA agéntica, sin vincular explícitamente a Siri con la tecnología Gemini de Google.

La empresa acusa un mayor retraso que rivales como Google y Samsung en la incorporación de funciones de IA a sus dispositivos. Sus esfuerzos en este ámbito se han visto frenados por las dificultades para desarrollar capacidades propias, lo que ha llevado a Apple a apoyarse en acuerdos con actores externos como Google y OpenAI.

Paolo Pescatore, analista jefe de PP Foresight, ha señalado que Apple no necesita imponerse en la carrera de la IA mediante el ruido o la comparación constante de modelos, sino haciendo que la IA sea útil, de confianza, privada y profundamente integrada en sus dispositivos.

Bloomberg informa de que Apple presentará iOS 27 junto con actualizaciones de iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS y visionOS. A diferencia del ciclo anterior, centrado en el diseño Liquid Glass, el nuevo ciclo de software pone el acento en la fiabilidad, la autonomía de la batería, el rendimiento y la integración de las funciones de Apple Intelligence.

Un relevo cargado de simbolismo

El acto constituye la última WWDC de Tim Cook como CEO de Apple antes de su prevista transición a presidente ejecutivo el 1 de septiembre, cuando John Ternus, vicepresidente sénior de ingeniería de hardware, tomará las riendas de la compañía.

Pescatore ha explicado que la WWDC de este año va más allá de lo que suele ser una conferencia de desarrolladores y la ha definido como un momento de traspaso tan simbólico como técnico.

A su juicio, el legado de Cook descansa sobre la escala, la disciplina, los servicios, la privacidad, Apple Silicon y la integración profunda del ecosistema, aunque la pregunta clave es cómo aprovecha Apple esa base en la era de la IA.

El analista ha argumentado que la empresa deberá tranquilizar a desarrolladores, inversores y clientes demostrando que la transición apuesta por la continuidad y no por la ruptura, al tiempo que evidencia que su combinación de hardware, silicio, software y servicios puede ofrecer un ecosistema más inteligente y personalizado.

Wood ha advertido, por su parte, de que cualquier tropiezo en la estrategia de IA agéntica y en local de Apple podría tener consecuencias de calado.

Con información de Amiya Johar.

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China ha intensificado sus preparativos para el 6G con el lanzamiento de un programa de pruebas regionales destinado a identificar posibles aplicaciones y avanzar hacia el eventual despliegue comercial de la tecnología, según ha informado la agencia de noticias estatal Xinhua.

El “programa piloto colaborativo conjunto ministerio-provincia”, anunciado por el Ministerio de Industria y Tecnología de la Información (MIIT), incluye investigación general sobre el 6G y su encaje en el ecosistema de tecnologías actuales y emergentes.

Entre sus objetivos figura la exploración de aplicaciones adaptadas a la demanda de cada región, con especial atención a las operaciones marítimas inteligentes y a los casos de uso para la industria manufacturera.

El MIIT también contempla la integración de la infraestructura de comunicaciones con la inteligencia artificial, los satélites y la detección inalámbrica, así como la investigación y el desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías para estaciones base y otros equipos de red.

La agencia ha señalado que la iniciativa busca respaldar el eventual despliegue comercial del 6G, previsto en torno a 2030. El anuncio llega aproximadamente un mes después de que el MIIT autorizara los ensayos regionales en la banda de 6 GHz.

Con información de Chris Donkin.

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MediaTek y Samsung han completado lo que ambas firmas presentan como la primera prueba exitosa de una configuración de subida de cinco capas con tres antenas transmisoras (3Tx), con la que han alcanzado una tasa de transferencia total en el enlace ascendente de 670 Mb/s.

La prueba ha combinado la plataforma de módem 5G M90 de MediaTek con la RAN virtualizada (vRAN) de Samsung, radios Massive-MIMO y radios de macrocelda, en un intento por establecer un nuevo referente en el rendimiento del enlace de subida 5G.

La configuración ha integrado tres antenas transmisoras repartidas en cinco capas de subida con una arquitectura multibanda que combina n66 (1,7 GHz) como celda primaria y dos portadoras n77 (3,7 GHz).

La vRAN de Samsung ha actuado como núcleo de red en la prueba: su arquitectura virtualizada permite asignar recursos de forma flexible en varias bandas de frecuencia y atender a varios usuarios de forma simultánea. Las radios Massive-MIMO se han encargado del procesamiento avanzado de antenas para gestionar los flujos de datos en paralelo y contener las interferencias.

HC Hwang, director general de sistemas de comunicación inalámbrica y asociaciones de MediaTek, ha señalado que la validación marca un paso relevante para la plataforma 5G de la empresa en un contexto de creciente demanda de aplicaciones en la nube de alta resolución.

Dongwoo Lee, responsable del grupo de soluciones tecnológicas de Samsung Networks, ha indicado que los resultados apuntan a velocidades con capacidad real de mejorar la experiencia tanto de usuarios particulares como de empresas.

Ambas firmas han explicado que el avance refuerza el rendimiento del acceso inalámbrico fijo mediante mejores velocidades de subida. De momento, no han anunciado ningún calendario para el despliegue comercial.

Con información de Michael Robuck.

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El Ministerio para la Transformación Digital ha concedido a Amazon los permisos necesarios para operar en el espectro radioeléctrico español con su servicio de internet por satélite, ahora denominado Amazon Leo —anteriormente conocido como Project Kuiper—.

La autorización allana el camino al despliegue comercial de la compañía en el país y la convierte en el principal competidor de Starlink en el segmento de conectividad de baja órbita.

Calendario y detalles técnicos de la concesión

Según ha informado el portal Banda Ancha, el Gobierno otorgó un segundo permiso clave a principios de mayo de 2026, con validez hasta finales de 2031. Este es el que autoriza la comunicación bidireccional entre los satélites y las antenas de los clientes finales.

Las frecuencias concedidas se distribuyen en dos bloques. El permiso de diciembre de 2024, destinado al enlace con estaciones terrestres, cubre los rangos de 19.350-19.955 MHz (satélite a estación) y 27.745-29.755 MHz (estación a satélite). El de mayo de 2026, orientado al enlace con los usuarios, autoriza las frecuencias de 17.610-19.050 MHz y 28.544,5-28.848,5 MHz para la comunicación directa con los hogares, mediante alguno de los tres modelos de antena (en la fotografía), según la velocidad nominal de transferencia.

El proceso sigue un patrón similar al de Starlink en 2022, cuando lanzó su fase beta pocos días después de obtener la licencia de enlace con clientes.

Infraestructura en España

Amazon Leo ya cuenta con presencia en el territorio español. Desde noviembre de 2025, la compañía opera una estación terrestre en Santander, en el Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Cantabria (PCTCAN), que se ocupa del control de los satélites que sobrevuelan la península ibérica.

Pese a ello, Amazon aún tiene por delante un despliegue importante. Hasta abril de 2025, la empresa había puesto en órbita 331 satélites, cuando se estima que necesita al menos 578 para garantizar cobertura en España, Europa y Estados Unidos —de los 3.236 que contempla el proyecto total—. El objetivo es tener operativa la mitad de la constelación en julio de 2026.

Un nuevo escenario para el mercado de internet rural

La llegada de Amazon Leo introducirá competencia en un mercado dominado por Starlink, de SpaceX. En los últimos meses, la compañía de Elon Musk ha aplicado subidas de tarifas en España con incrementos de hasta el 67% en algunos planes.

La entrada de Amazon ofrecerá una alternativa real a muchos hogares en zonas rurales donde la fibra óptica no llega y donde, hasta ahora, Starlink era la única opción disponible.

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El instituto de investigación IMDEA Networks, ubicado en Getafe (Madrid), ha obtenido financiación para cuatro nuevos proyectos en el marco de la iniciativa europea Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU).

La adjudicación se produce en un momento de creciente actividad en torno al 6G en España: también en Cataluña, la UPC y el centro tecnológico i2CAT han puesto en marcha infraestructuras orientadas a esta tecnología.

La convocatoria del SNS JU se encuadra en el programa Horizon Europe y sitúa a IMDEA Networks entre los centros más activos de la iniciativa, con una tasa de éxito del 50% en sus propuestas de este año y presencia en el 20% de los proyectos seleccionados en la última convocatoria.

Los cuatro proyectos: sostenibilidad, seguridad e industria

Las iniciativas adjudicadas a IMDEA Networks se centran en retos técnicos de la próxima generación de comunicaciones móviles.

PRIME-6G se centra en la manufactura industrial resiliente y utiliza la optimización de redes mediante IA y gemelos digitales para mejorar la eficiencia y la seguridad en entornos de fábrica reales.

IoT-ZERO tiene como objetivo desarrollar dispositivos del Internet de las Cosas (IoT) con un consumo de energía próximo a cero, combinando la captación de energía (energy harvesting) y comunicaciones de ultrabaja potencia.

PROSPERO trabaja en una arquitectura 6G unificada y simplificada para reducir costes y dependencias tecnológicas, integrando la automatización nativa de la IA y principios de sostenibilidad desde el diseño.

PAISES-6G se focaliza en infraestructuras seguras y escalables, empleando criptografía preparada para la computación cuántica e IA para la gestión automatizada de la red.
Estos proyectos están liderados por los investigadores principales Marco Fiore y Joerg Widmer.

Qué es la SNS JU

La Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) es una alianza público-privada europea orientada a impulsar la soberanía tecnológica de Europa en las redes 5G y 6G.

Cuenta con una inversión pública de 630 millones de euros dentro del programa Horizon Europe y tiene como objetivo trazar la hoja de ruta de la innovación digital hasta 2030, con atención a la competitividad industrial y la transición hacia una economía más digitalizada y con menor impacto ambiental.

La innovación 6G también avanza en Catalunya

En paralelo a la actividad de IMDEA Networks en Madrid, Catalunya cuenta con varias iniciativas recientes en torno al 6G. La Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) puso en marcha hace justo un mes el 6G LabNet, una infraestructura de 34 kilómetros que conecta Barcelona y Castelldefels y funciona como banco de pruebas para tecnologías 5G avanzadas y 6G. El laboratorio está abierto a empresas e investigadores que quieran validar soluciones de movilidad autónoma o robótica antes de su lanzamiento al mercado.

El centro tecnológico i2CAT, por su parte, ha completado su traslado desde la UPC al recinto Pier01 de Tech Barcelona, en el Palau de Mar de Barcelona. Con una inversión de 10 millones de euros, las nuevas instalaciones incluyen 15 laboratorios centrados en IA, ciberseguridad y 6G, con el objetivo de aumentar su colaboración con empresas y trabajar en proyectos de soberanía digital.

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Analysts tipped Apple to use its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), set to take place on Monday (8 June), to reset its AI strategy and unveil a major Siri overhaul as CEO Tim Cook prepares to hand over the reins.

Ahead of the event, Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight, described WWDC as “a pivotal moment for Apple Intelligence”, adding its voice assistant Siri had been “a thorn in Apple’s side for several years”, making its reboot central to Apple’s attempt to reset its AI narrative.

According to Bloomberg, Apple is expected to unveil a revamped AI-powered Siri designed to act as conversational companion with screen awareness, richer app control, the ability to tackle multiple commands in one prompt and a dedicated Siri app.

Wood expects Apple to frame the overhaul around “a slew of agentic AI capabilities”, while avoiding any overt positioning of Siri as being powered by Google’s Gemini technology.

Apple has indeed lagged rivals including Google and Samsung in bringing AI features to smartphones and other devices. Its push has been hampered by challenges building in-house AI capabilities, prompting the company to lean on partnerships with players including Google and OpenAI.

Paolo Pescatore, chief analyst at research house PP Foresight, said the iPhone-maker does not need to win the AI race through “noise, novelty or endless model comparisons”, but by making AI “useful, trusted, private and deeply embedded” across its devices.

Bloomberg reported Apple is also expected to unveil iOS 27 alongside updates for iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and visionOS. Unlike last year’s focus on Liquid Glass design, the next software cycle is expected to focus on reliability, battery life, performance and deeper integration of Apple Intelligence features.

Symbolic
Notably, the event also marks Tim Cook’s final WWDC as Apple CEO before his planned transition to executive chairman on 1 September, when SVP of hardware engineering John Ternus will take the helm.

Pescatore explained the upcoming WWDC “carries far more significance than a normal developer conference”, describing it as “as much a symbolic handover moment as a software showcase”.

In his view, Cook’s legacy has been built on “scale, discipline, services, privacy, Apple Silicon and deep ecosystem integration”, but argued the key question is how Apple uses that foundation in the AI era.

He argued the tech giant will need to reassure developers, investors and customers the transition is “about continuity, not disruption”, while showing its blend of hardware, silicon, software and services can deliver “a more intelligent, more personal ecosystem”.

Similarly, Wood warned any missteps in Apple’s hotly anticipated agentic and on-device AI strategy “could have significant implications”.

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Singtel Group positioned a partnership with government-linked body Digital Industry Singapore as helping it accelerate a sweeping AI transformation of its business and strengthen digital infrastructure in the country.

The operator noted the pact, which comes with a grant for the company, will contribute to a multi-year plan to up adoption of AI across its business including within infrastructure, customer platforms and for workforce development.

In the first phase Singtel plans to develop and hire AI talent, establish governance and tech frameworks and build “enterprise advisory and implementation expertise to support AI deployment at scale”.

Among its aims is to become a “world-leading AI-native telco” with advanced AI and machine learning capabilities in all business units.

The operator highlighted its push aligned with a wider national strategy in Singapore which aims to strengthen sovereign digital infrastructure, increase skills of the local workforce and develop “globally competitive leaders” in the AI sector.

Singtel CEO Yuen Kuan Moon added it was “championing enterprise transformation with AI” in its home market.

“As an adopter, provider and enabler of AI, Singtel is embedding intelligent technologies across our operations, delivering trusted enterprise-grade solutions that help customers move from pilot to scale, and providing secure, sovereign platforms and digital infrastructure to support adoption across industries.”

He continued: “Ultimately, our goal is to create real impact not just for our business, but for Singapore, future-proofing our industries to be more competitive and resilient in the AI era.”

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