Huawei Rethinks the Connections Inside Giant AI Systems
from AI & Tech Daily with Jesse Owen Hosted by Jesse Owen
Huawei puts optical interconnects at the centre of its next large AI systems, and resident expert Maya Chen explains what buyers should watch before the first Ascend 960 chips arrive in 2027. Jesse also covers Gemini 3.8 Live's concurrent tool use, Australia's consultation on AI training and data centres, the proposed EU KIDS Act, an actively exploited Cisco firewall-management flaw, Google's anomaly detection for enterprise agents, Anthropic's biomolecular-model optimisations, and an open-source SDK generation stack from Google and Speakeasy. Full transcript: https://www.owenonthenet.com/podcast/2026-09-18/ Sources: https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/9/hc-wang-keynote https://apnews.com/article/26ab418df1339c518483918218ffbe57 https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking https://www.pmc.gov.au/news/have-your-say-future-ai-training-and-infrastructure-australia https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/eu-kids-act-restrict-social-media-platforms-access-children-eu https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-onprem-fmc-authbypass-5JPp45V2 https://developers.googleblog.com/agent-anomaly-detection-now-in-private-preview-on-the-gemini-enterprise-agent-platform https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-uplifts-biomolecular-modeling https://developers.googleblog.com/why-client-sdk-generation-belongs-in-the-open
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Huawei puts optical interconnects at the centre of its next large AI systems, and resident expert Maya Chen explains what buyers should watch before the first Ascend 960 chips arrive in 2027. Jesse also covers Gemini 3.8 Live's concurrent tool use, Australia's consultation on AI training and data centres, the proposed EU KIDS Act, an actively exploited Cisco firewall-management flaw, Google's anomaly detection for enterprise agents, Anthropic's biomolecular-model optimisations, and an open-source SDK generation stack from Google and Speakeasy.
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