AT&T expands AI collaboration with Adaptive ML, deploys network foundation models; operational efficiency gains; agentic AI traffic bet

EEIM AI system reduced customer downtime by 12M hours, prevented 3.1M dispatches. Adaptive ML achieves 30% faster call summaries, 12x fraud throughput. CEO Stankey highlighted AI integration at Leadership Summit and in Q2 call commentary. New article: AT&T is betting on fiber and 600 MHz for agentic AI traffic, with AWS partnership and energy savings from AI ops. This is a long-term bet, not near-term catalyst, but reinforces the bull case that AT&T's physical footprint is a moat.