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Nokia & AWS Unveil US AI Infrastructure Investments | Tech Field Day News Rundown: November 26, 2025
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Nokia is investing $4 billion to expand U.S. AI-ready network infrastructure, focusing primarily on Bell Labs and additional facilities in New Jersey, Texas, and Pennsylvania to strengthen connectivity, national security, and its NVIDIA partnership. At the same time, AWS is committing $50 billion to grow AI and supercomputing capacity for U.S. government agencies, adding 1.3 gigawatts of secure cloud infrastructure across classified regions to accelerate missions like cybersecurity, drug discovery, and federal data processing—making it one of the largest government cloud investments to date. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Cold Open
0:34 - Welcome to the Tech Field Day News Rundown
1:15 - NVIDIA Commits $26B to Cloud as AI Competition Heats Up
5:17 - Qualcomm Sparks Outrage by Locking Down Arduino
9:42 - NATO Chooses Google for Secure, Air-Gapped Cloud
12:47 - Amazon Leo Unveils Gigabit ‘Ultra’ Antenna and Starts Enterprise Preview
17:18 - Splunk Donates OpenTelemetry Injector to Simplify Legacy App Monitoring
20:57 - Google Explores AI Data Centers in Space with Project Suncatcher
25:24 - Nokia Invests $4B to Expand U.S. AI Network Infrastructure
29:08 - AWS to Invest $50B in Government AI and Supercomputing
32:11 - The Weeks Ahead
33:26 - Thanks for Watching
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