2026 highlights: March

Technology highlights for March 2026 included:

- Alibaba established the Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) Business Group to accelerate AI adoption.

- Anthropic has earmarked US$100 M for the Claude Partner Network to support partners with training courses, dedicated technical support, and joint market development.  

The company said its 4th Asia-Pacific office will be in Sydney. It has also set up The Anthropic Institute, which will draw on research from across Anthropic to share information with other researchers and the public. 

- Ericsson and Intel collaborated to accelerate AI-native 6G across compute, connectivity and cloud, spanning AI-driven RAN and packet core use cases plus platform security, and network capabilities. 

- A new Google whitepaper showed that future quantum computers may break the elliptic curve cryptography that protects cryptocurrency and other systems with less effort than previously thought. QCP published a counter-argument,
Quantum Risk Is Real, But Not Crypto-Specific, at https://www.qcpgroup.com/insights/quantum-risk-is-real-but-not-crypto-specific/ 

- NVIDIA made a raft of announcements at its annual GTC, including NVIDIA Vera Rubin, a full-stack computing platform comprising seven chips, five rack-scale systems and one supercomputer, as well as expansions to its open-source Nemotron family.  

 

Source: Qualcomm Technologies. A new coalition aims to accelerate 6G adoption.

- Qualcomm Technologies announced a coalition to accelerate the development and global deployment of 6G, with support from Airtel, Amazon, Asus, BT Group, Cisco, Dell, e&, Ericsson, FPT Corporation, Fujitsu/1finity, Google, HP, HPE, HUMAIN, KDDI, KT, Lenovo, LG Electronics, LG Uplus, Meta, Microsoft, Motorola, NEC Corporation, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Reliance Jio, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Siemens, SK Telecom, Snap, Inc., Stellantis, Swisscom, Tejas Networks, Telstra, TIM Group, T-Mobile, Viettel Group, VNG, and YTL. 

Activities will include driving timely development of essential 6G standards, early system validation, demonstration of 6G spec-compliant pre-commercial devices and networks in 2028, establishing a common industry benchmark for 6G readiness, and initial rollout of global and interoperable commercial 6G systems from 2029. Together, the members will also build capabilities for new business models and services to accelerate adoption and create value across the 6G ecosystem. 

- Singtel Innov8 launched a new US$250 million AI Growth Fund to invest in high-growth AI startups globally and accelerate applied AI adoption across the Singtel group.  

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