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This Week's Pulse
This was one of those weeks where infrastructure stopped being theoretical:
- In industrial environments, IOTech launched an Edge Alarm Service built on OPC UA and IEC 62682, targeting costly downtime by standardizing alarms across heterogeneous IIoT deployments.
- ACL Digital (ALTEN Group) and AIM Future announced a strategic partnership to push neuromorphic AI processors to the edge, explicitly targeting smart cities, industrial IoT, and autonomous systems.
- Huawei and ZTE secured a string of 5G equipment contracts in Vietnam, signaling a clear shift in the regional telecom supply chain and unnerving Western policymakers.
- Samsung and SK Telecom signed an MoU to co-develop AI-driven 6G radio access (AI-RAN), doubling down on the idea that future networks will be co-designed with AI from the ground up.
- Uber and WeRide flipped their robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi's Yas Island to fully driverless operations (no safety driver), while Tesla said it will double its robotaxi fleet in Austin next month.
- Panasonic Energy signed a multi-year deal to supply 2170 cells to Amazon's Zoox starting in 2026, explicitly framed as enabling Zoox's scaling path after it began free robotaxi rides in San Francisco this month.
Figure 1: The stack from sensors to edge AI to 5G/6G to autonomy is consolidating around AI-native infrastructure.
This week's thesis: The stack from sensors → edge AI → 5G/6G → autonomy is consolidating around "AI-native" infrastructure and geopolitically constrained supply chains. The capital and strategic bets are moving from experiments to deployment scaffolding.
What CEOs and investors should actually watch:
- Edge AI is becoming the default assumption, not a differentiator. The ACL–AIM Future deal and IOTech's standards-based alarm layer both push toward "AI at the edge as table stakes."
- 5G supply chains are bifurcating harder: Vietnam's embrace of Huawei and ZTE under U.S. tariff pressure is a live example of geopolitics re-routing infrastructure deals. Western vendors will increasingly compete on "trust" rather than just performance.
- Robotaxis are settling into corridor-first, geofenced economics, not sci-fi city-wide autonomy. Uber/WeRide on Yas Island and Tesla's Austin build-out are corridor-shaped stories with clear unit-economics experiments.
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