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Editorial: Agentic AI
Hopefully you didn't miss last week's April 1st online issue. The PDF eBook is now available and you can vote for your favorite article. There are some comments if you can find them (our comment system needs work).
This week I have an article on agentic AI that covers some of the basics. The rush to put AI everywhere, especially in the growing number of massive data centers, has prompted the likes of Arm in driving the chip market.
There's a lot more this week and I will be updating this short overview soon.
Editor's Choice: From the ElectronicDesign Archives
These articles were chosen by the editors at ElectronicDesign that complement the new articles above. They are included in our regular newsletters.
Bill Wong's Pick of the Week
Optics will be important for high-speed AI, especially for communications, but it can be used for computation as well.
Photons power AI chip, calculations at speed of light
Artificial intelligence (AI) chip using photons in place of electrons acts as a photonic neural network accelerator—computation is performed directly through optical propagation. @ Laser Focus World
Our Special Report: 2026 Technology Forecast arrived last week. You might also like this from our sister publication:
7 IoT Trends Shaping Smart Homes and Buildings in 2026
The Internet of Things has made our lives more connected and automated than ever before, with accelerated adoption across homes, buildings, and industrial environments. @ Microwaves & RF
And if you're wondering how your parts are arriving, then check this out:
Hormuz Disruption Triggers New Transshipment Across Asia
Navi Mumbai has become a major transshipment hub, with volumes increasing more than 700%, says project44. @ Material Handling & Logistics
Andy's Picks From Around the WebTech layoffs are at their worst since 2023, and AI is a big reason. Link World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Connects First Subsea Export Cable To Power 3.3 Million Homes. Link (4/5/26) Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center. With the dependencies created by the US on AI for warfighting, these seem to be the modern-day ball-bearing factories to take out. Link Linux 7.1 is finally ending support for Intel's 37-year-old 486 processor. Link Click here to see Andy's full list of the latest articles and news.Salesforce's CEO says AI is being used as a scapegoat for cost and structural layoffs decisions. Link Army plans to host new commercial data centers on at least 4 bases. Link President Trump signs order directing pentagon to buy coal power for Military bases. Link Approximately one in 10 Google AI search overviews contains false information. Given that the search engine processes roughly 5 trillion queries per year, users could be exposed to more than 57 million inaccurate answers each hour – nearly 1 million per minute. Link Exclusive: TikTok to build a second billion-euro data centre in Finland. Link AI’s next bottleneck: Why even the best chips made in the U.S. take a round trip to Taiwan. Link Tech industry lays off nearly 80,000 employees in the first quarter of 2026 — almost 50% of affected positions cut due to AI. Link 3d printing is in peril in New York State with bonkers legislation that requires firmware to recognize potential guns and gun parts, as Electronic Design warned about a couple of months ago. Additive in America: Regulating 3D Printing by Joel Telling (@3dprintingnerd). Video A $3 Trillion IPO Is Coming. Your Retirement Account Pays for It. Video TPM - The Microsoft Choke Point - Age Verification and Identity Control. Video
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William G. Wong
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