Tips to address unknown Russia/Ukraine-related cyber threats; Nokia CEO claims connectivity is critical to sustainability; and Luminous raised $105 million.

Artificial intelligence was supposed to ensure the survival and progress of the species, but it’s not there yet, Luminous CEO Marcus Gomez said.

The updates are part of the software vendor's plan to shift downmarket and capture a larger portion of the lucrative small to midsize business pie.

Microsoft announced Azure for Operators updates; AT&T showcased its private 5G at MWC; and Qualcomm released its open RAN platform.

As a result of the project's acceptance to the CNCF, "the stage is now set [for Knative] to be enterprise ready," CNCF executive director Priyanka Sharma said.

HPE, Mavenir, and Rakuten also embraced Qualcomm's 5G radio access network accelerator cards and massive MIMO antenna chipsets.

This new wave of Azure for Operators, recently combined with AT&T’s Network Cloud tech, is designed to support AT&T's mobile core network.

Telefónica’s CEO stressed the importance of tech ethics; the usage gap has outpaced the connectivity gap; and Nokia released its Edge Network Controller.

“Protecting the runtime is the foundation of securing the inner workings of a modern application,” VMware's Tom Gillis said.

Cisco Private 5G integrates with existing enterprise systems and WiFi, operates as-a-service on a pay-per-use basis, and supports open RAN principles.

The solution to the connectivity gap lies in finding an economic balance "between covering the least dense areas and what the company can invest," Orange's Antoine de Clerck explained.

"We are losing faith in ourselves and in our future” because “the link between material progress and ethical progress has been blurred," he said.

Kyndryl partnered with AWS; Arrcus wins customers from rivals through entry points; and CloudBolt reported IT leaders think the cloud has hit a wall.

Even though cloud strategies have scaled and evolved, the associated complexities have exponentially increased, CloudBolt reported.

The partnership rounds out the managed service provider’s cloud arsenal, which already included Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

Benu partnered with AWS; the cybersecurity skills shortage remains particularly acute; and Arista Networks embedded NDR into its campus switches.

The partnership enables telecoms to offer SASE services even in markets where they have little to no physical presence.

Ericsson touted its 5G energy efficiency progress; Nvidia's Arm ambitions are anything but dead; and the Great Resignation might collide with the developer shortage.

The IT enterprise juggernaut revealed an infrastructure platform that aims to help operators build and deploy open, cloud-native networks.

Dubbed Forcepoint One, the SSE platform offers customers the full suite of SASE security features minus the networking baggage.

KDDI claims to run the first 5G standalone open RAN site; a New Mexico water utility tapped Cisco for security; and Cisco might acquire these companies next.

"Our vision at the end of the day is to be the final piece that breaks down all of those [data] silos," Arcion CEO Gary Hagmueller said.

F5 expanded its application security portfolio; Nokia and Kyndryl expanded their private 5G partnership; and Snyk acquired Fugue.

"WAAP, as a cloud service, is a fast-growing area, led by large cloud providers such as Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon, and Google," IDC's Chris Rodriguez said.