Marty Swant

Marty Swant is a journalist who has covered tech, marketing, and policy for The New York Times, Fast Company, Big Technology, and more.

  • The Google Cloud logo is displayed on a high-definition digital monolith at the entrance of the Google pavilion during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on March 5, 2026. For the 2026 edition, Google Cloud showcases its developments in the ”IQ Era” by unveiling new Agentic AI solutions for telecommunications, powered by the Gemini 3.1 Pro model and Vertex AI Agent Builder. The exhibit highlights the deployment of Google Distributed Cloud running on TPU v6 (Tensor Processing Units) to enable AI at the network edge. Key demonstrations include the ”Network Digital Twin” powered by Spanner Graph and BigQuery, which allows operators like MasOrange and Deutsche Telekom to use autonomous agents for real-time root-cause analysis and predictive network self-healing. The stand emphasizes Google’s unified data foundation, utilizing Graph Neural Networks to transition from traditional monitoring to proactive, intent-based network management. (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images)AI

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