Rob Pegoraro<p><strong>Weekly output: 5G platforms, AI in financial services, AI and supply chains, Kamala Harris on AI, AI infrastructure, Gmail’s AI calendar integration, Android 16, AI and information security</strong></p><p>It’s a rare week when my work doesn’t touch on AI at all, but moderating panels at a conference devoted to that subject–and writing up two other talks there–helped ensure that AI figured in all but two of the items below.</p><p>3/10/2025: <a class="" href="https://www.lightreading.com/network-platforms/practical-means-profitable-telco-talk-about-building-services-on-5g-s-framework" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Practical means profitable: Telco talk about building services on 5G’s framework</a>, Light Reading</p><p>My MWC Barcelona coverage for outside clients closed out with this writeup for this trade-pub client–my first there in a few months–of a panel in which telco executives talked about how they were building new lines of business on their 5G platforms.</p><p>Patreon readers, however, got one more post about MWC in which I shared <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/mwc-2025-extras-124299999?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">three other highlights from the show</a>.</p><p>3/10/2025: Banking on AI for personalized customer experiences, <a href="https://www.humanx.co/agenda" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HumanX</a></p><p>The first panel I did at this conference–in Las Vegas for its first year, moving to San Francisco next year–had me quizzing <a href="https://better.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Better.com’s</a> Vishal Garg, <a href="https://clearcover.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clearcover’s</a> Kyle Nakatsuji, <a href="https://www.honeybook.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Honeybook’s</a> Colleen Stauffer, <a href="https://www.sunrise.ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sunrise AI’s</a> Deepak Shrivastava and <a href="https://www.spglobal.com/en" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">S&P Global’s</a> Bhavesh Dayalji about how they see AI changing customer service.</p><p><a href="https://robpegoraro.com/?attachment_id=25462" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>3/10/2025: AI-powered supply chains: From farm to table and beyond, <a href="https://www.humanx.co/agenda" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HumanX</a></p><p>Since this panel–featuring <a href="https://altana.ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Altana’s</a> Peter Swartz, <a href="https://www.fusionfund.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fusion Fund’s</a> Lu Zhang and <a href="https://choco.com/us/choco-ai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Choco AI’s</a> Daniel Khachab–focused on agriculture, I opened it by telling the audience that I found the subject particularly interesting because I eat food.</p><p>3/11/2025: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/kamala-harris-urges-those-working-on-ai-to-consider-trust-empathy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kamala Harris Urges Those Working on AI to Consider Trust, Empathy</a>, PCMag</p><p>The former vice president–whom I last saw in person in October <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/robpegoraro/albums/72177720321644156" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">from much farther away</a>–was a late addition to the conference agenda. I hustled to get from the airport to the conference hotel, check in, drop by bag and get over to the event in time to get a seat in the third row for the Sunday-evening program that ended with Harris.</p><p>3/11/2025: Rethinking infrastructure: Custom solutions for the AI era, <a href="https://www.humanx.co/agenda" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HumanX</a></p><p>My big takeaway from the conversation I had onstage with Sid Sheth of <a href="https://www.d-matrix.ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">d-Matrix</a> and Ami Badani of <a href="https://www.arm.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arm</a>: Industry hype about AGI (“artificial general intelligence” that could replicate a human brain) is a distraction, and not a particularly helpful one at that.</p><p>3/11/2025: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/gmail-gets-ai-calendar-feature-that-apple-added-to-its-mail-app-in-2007" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gmail Gets AI Calendar Feature That Apple Added to Its Mail App in 2007</a>, PCMag</p><p>I missed this Google announcement Monday but had to write about it once I realized that the feature Google touts as an AI advancement is something that Apple delivered with plain old software in Mac OS X Leopard 18 years ago.</p><p>3/13/2025: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/android-16-third-beta-launch-accessibility" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Android 16 Inches Toward a Launch With Accessibility-Focused Third Beta Release</a>, PCMag</p><p>Google PR gave me an advance on the news of third beta release of Android 16.</p><p>3/14/2025: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/ex-facebook-ciso-warns-95-of-bugs-in-your-ai-system-havent-been-invented" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ex-Facebook CISO Warns: 95% of Bugs in Your AI System Haven’t Been Invented Yet</a>, PCMag</p><p>I always learn something when Alex Stamos talks about information 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