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$725B Bets, Belden Buys RUCKUS, & Broadcom’s Cloud Play | Tech Field Day News Rundown: May 6, 2026
The AI gold rush is continuing to change the future of infrastructure, but at what cost?
In this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Alastair Cooke is joined by Vincent Celindro to break down the biggest enterprise tech stores of the week. Belden’s $1.85B acquisition of RUCKUS Networks signals a major push toward full-stack IT/OT convergence, Meanwhile, Broadcom rolls out VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, promising lower costs and AI-ready private cloud at scale.
Google backs Anthropic with up to $40B, while Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta prepare to pour a combined $725B into AI…
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