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What the Latest Google "AI Mode" Means for Users Who Care about Privacy and Better Experiences

What the Latest Google "AI Mode" Means for Users Who Care about Privacy and Better Experiences

Jan 9, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
When Google introduced its AI highlights above the main search results, we thought that was all the company would push to prove its determination to turn traditional Google Search, praised by businesses for expansive SEO opportunities, into an AI-powered experience. But if you live in the U.S. and have recently paid attention to the Google homepage, there's a new button called "AI Mode." Well, it turns out the company is still working hard not to lose its dominance to competitors.
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Context is King: Why Network AI Needs Domain Knowledge to Work

Jan 8, 2026 By Phil Gervasi In Kentik
Generic AI fails in network operations because it lacks the “institutional knowledge” of your specific environment and business priorities. Learn how Kentik’s Custom Network Context encodes your unique operational reality into AI Advisor, turning a generic chatbot into a context-aware teammate.
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Key Insights from the 2025 GigaOm Radar for Container Networking

Jan 8, 2026 By John Alexander In Tigera
In 2025, as modern applications became ever more distributed and the use of Kubernetes continued to proliferate, the role of container networking was critical. Today’s enterprises demand networking solutions that can scale, secure, and connect services reliably, whether those services run across multiple clouds, hybrid environments, or on-premises clusters.
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Technical Debt for Middle Mile Broadband: Why Access-Agnostic Intelligent Middle Mile Matters

Jan 7, 2026 By Mitch Simcoe In Ribbon
Technical debt refers to the future costs and limitations incurred when organizations opt for short-term solutions over robust, long-term scalable architectures. For the middle mile, technical debt often manifests as equipment or network designs that restrict long-term flexibility, scalability, or interoperability.
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Three key tech trends shaping connectivity in 2026

Jan 6, 2026 By Lily Bennett In Console Connect
As enterprise IT continues to evolve, networking is becoming a strategic lever – one that directly impacts agility, resilience and the ability to compete. In a recent podcast episode, our CTO Paul Gampe shares the technologies he thinks will matter most for the foreseeable future. Three themes stood out: the rise of Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), the shift toward transmission on-demand at layer one and the rapid evolution of Model Context Protocol (MCP).
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Automating BGP Troubleshooting with Kentik AI Advisor

Jan 6, 2026 By Kentik In Kentik
In this demo, we use Kentik AI Advisor to troubleshoot a real-world BGP misconfiguration that brings down a peering session with a transit provider. You’ll see how AI Advisor works both as a dedicated page and as an in-portal overlay, using natural language to identify the affected interface, correlate SNMP and syslog data, and pinpoint a maximum-prefix issue as the root cause. Then we accelerate and standardize the workflow with custom network context and AI-powered runbooks, so every engineer can troubleshoot BGP alerts like an expert.
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