Friday Five — September 12, 2025

Diginomica - US AI Action Plan, part 3 – how to be fast, sustainable, and efficient. Just don’t call it ‘green’!

America’s AI Action Plan emphasizes speed, scale, and efficiency through deregulation, faster permitting, and infrastructure build-out. It promotes open-source/open-weight models, energy expansion, and ideological neutrality while avoiding green labels despite its focus on sustainability. Learn more

Taming hybrid cloud complexity: A path to true agility

Marco Bill discusses the challenges that IT leaders face today, and how Red Hat OpenShift offers a unified platform to manage containerized, virtualized, and AI workloads across hybrid cloud environments, improving consistency, speed-to-production, and developer autonomy. Learn more

Light Reading - Rakuten Mobile and a tale of failed telecom disruption

Rakuten Mobile aimed to shake up Japan’s telecom market with lean operations, cloud-native tech, and open RAN innovation. It achieved modest subscriber growth and its first positive earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization profit, but still trails incumbents in scale and network performance. Learn more

Llama Stack: Kubernetes for RAG & AI Agents in Generative AI

What do Llama Stack and Kubernetes have in common? Red Hat's Cedric Clyburn explains how this open-source framework simplifies building enterprise-ready generative AI systems. Discover how Llama Stack integrates RAG, AI agents, and modular APIs to create scalable and portable AI applications. Learn more

DataCenter Knowledge - ISS Data Center Launch Tests Edge Computing at 400km Above Earth

Axiom Space and Red Hat launched the AxDCU-1 prototype to the ISS to test space-based edge computing using Red Hat Device Edge with MicroShift, enabling autonomous, resilient containerized workloads, real-time processing in orbit, and efficient OTA updates despite limited connectivity. Learn more