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This Week's Pulse
Three things became painfully clear this week:
- Industrial systems are being refactored into software products, not projects. Rockwell's push toward "elastic" MES is a clean signal: the factory is being dragged into cloud operating rhythms whether plant teams like it or not.
- Telcos are quietly admitting the truth: the network is now a release train. Vodafone + Spirent are trying to compress core-voice rollout cycles from months to days with automation, because "manual validation" no longer scales.
- Autonomy is re-bundling into platforms, again. Stellantis + Bolt are back in the Level 4 game (after shelving Level 3 earlier), but with a more realistic "platform + operator + regulators" approach.
This week's thesis: The control plane is now a product for factories, networks, edge stacks, and vehicle autonomy. If you can't ship updates safely and continuously, you're not competitive; you're a liability.
Figure 1: Factories, networks, edge endpoints, and vehicles are all becoming update-driven systems.
CEOs & investors: what to watch.
- Release velocity becomes a moat (automation + validation + compliance pipelines), not just "features."
- Open architectures move from ideology to procurement reality (Open RAN readiness, multi-vendor cores, interoperable industrial layers).
- Autonomy winners won't be the flashiest demo. They'll be the safest scalable platform.
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