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Applied Materials said Advantest will join the EPIC platform as an innovation partner, co-locating Advantest’s new testing-focused Innovation Center with Applied’s EPIC Center in Silicon Valley. The effort targets links between semiconductor front-end manufacturing and back-end testing for chips and advanced packaging, with the facilities planned to be operational in 2026.

The Eclipse Foundation launched Open VSX Managed Registry with a 99.95% uptime SLA and multi-region operations.

SUSE announced SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA, a packaged AI software stack built on SUSE AI and NVIDIA AI Enterprise. The offering targets secure, zero-trust deployment of AI workloads from data center to edge and cloud using pre-validated blueprints and GitOps workflows, with governance and unified support. Availability is previewed at SUSECON.

SUSE survey of 309 IT leaders found 98% prioritize digital sovereignty, while 52% take steps.

Splunk plus Aviz Network Copilot turns natural-language network questions into SPL queries, results, charts, and recommendations, with scalability test results.

Cognizant launched Skillspring, a multimodal AI-native learning platform using agent-driven tutoring and an AI Fluency Dashboard.

In his latest blog, Stefan Pongratz explores how AI-driven automation is advancing RAN toward Level 4 autonomy, with early deployments emerging and cross-domain orchestration defining the next phase. Learn more: The post Level 4 Autonomous RAN – From Vision to Early Reality appeared first on Dell'Oro Group.

Relativity plans a Singapore entity in Q4 and cited adoption of RelativityOne and Relativity aiR, plus new Advanced Access AI tools.

Aptean announced an exclusive preview of AppCentral, an AI platform with 10 AI agents for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises. The company positions the offering as a packaged, ready-to-sell route to deploy AI without cloud migration, with agents integrated to live Business Central data and up to 20 automated workflows per customer.

IaCConf 2026 set for May 14 focuses on Infrastructure as Code and balancing delivery speed with infrastructure governance.

Brightspeed said its fiber network build in Arkansas is 50% complete, with nearly 101,000 locations connected and 202,000 planned.

Speakeasy compared five OpenAPI SDK generators on language coverage, type safety, dependencies, and air-gapped support.