Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Take a Network Break! Scott Robohn steps in for Johna this week. We start with some followup on 3M and then tackle the news.
Arista catches up to the rest of the market on a "branch in a box" approach with new security capabilities in its VeloCloud SD-WAN, Cisco announces the Antares family of Small Language Models (SLMs) for scanning software for bugs, and Fortinet signs on with Intel Foundry for Fortinet's newest custom silicon.
TSMC will raise prices for chip manufacturing, Nvidia announces new Spectrum-X Ethernet switches with silicon photonics, and Intel posts encouraging Q2 results despite an accounting requirement that's killing its net income numbers.
Last but not least, OpenAI says AI agents it was testing broke containment and then broke into Hugging Face. Oops!
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Links to all of these stories can be found on the Packet Pushers website - packetpushers.net/podcasts/network-break/nb584-openai-agents-mug-hugging-face-fortinet-picks-intel-for-custom-silicon
Network Break is part of the Packet Pushers network. Visit our website to find more great networking and technology podcasts, along with tutorial videos, the Human Infrastructure newsletter, and loads more resources for building your IT career. packetpushers.net
Take a Network Break! Scott Robohn steps in for Johna this week. We start with some followup on 3M and then tackle the news.
Arista catches up to the rest of the market on a "branch in a box" approach with new security capabilities in its VeloCloud SD-WAN, Cisco announces the Antares family of Small Language Models (SLMs) for scanning software for bugs, and Fortinet signs on with Intel Foundry for Fortinet's newest custom silicon.
TSMC will raise prices for chip manufacturing, Nvidia announces new Spectrum-X Ethernet switches with silicon photonics, and Intel posts encouraging Q2 results despite an accounting requirement that's killing its net income numbers.
Last but not least, OpenAI says AI agents it was testing broke containment and then broke into Hugging Face. Oops!
AdSpot Sponsor: Itential
Itential’s FlowAI delivers agentic operations for infrastructure - meaning easily build AI agents that actually work the way engineers need them to: governed, deterministic, and built for production. Add intelligent automation to your network operations without the usual AI chaos. Find out more at itential.com/flowai
Links:
Links to all of these stories can be found on the Packet Pushers website - packetpushers.net/podcasts/network-break/nb584-openai-agents-mug-hugging-face-fortinet-picks-intel-for-custom-silicon
Network Break is part of the Packet Pushers network. Visit our website to find more great networking and technology podcasts, along with tutorial videos, the Human Infrastructure newsletter, and loads more resources for building your IT career. packetpushers.net
