[NEW:]Howard Watson from BT discusses the advancements in “AI that performs tasks,” the limitations of open RAN, and the emergence of sovereign clouds in the near future.

Howard Watson, chief security and networks officer at BT, spoke with Light Reading at Mobile World Congress on the shift from generative AI to agentic AI, and he weighs in on how the way open RAN is being represented in big telcos now doesn’t line up with the original idea of having multivendor innovation in the RAN.