Automation Gets a Framework — OpenAI Blinks on Stargate Self-Build
The Network Automation Forum's six-block framework lands with a practical maturity map for practitioners, while OpenAI quietly pivots Stargate from self-build to a leasing umbrella amid a revenue miss. Takeaway: audit your automation building blocks before your next vendor conversation, and stop assuming AI capex commitments equal demand.
Welcome to Amaze Networks for Monday, May fourth. Remember Friday when we said the combined five-hyperscaler capex for twenty twenty-six was running at six hundred thirty billion dollars? OpenAI just blinked.
Yeah, hard. Construction halted, the self-build model abandoned, and Stargate has been redefined as an umbrella term for leasing other people's compute. We'll get into it.
But we're leading with automation today, because we've got a Friday conference dump from SwiNOG forty-one that honestly delivered.
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