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The US Treasury Department has issued a Final Rule restricting US investments in foreign technologies deemed to pose a “national security concern,” specifically targeting sectors like semiconductors, quantum technology, and AI. -
Elon Musk has announced that xAI, his AI startup rivalling OpenAI, plans to double the size of its Colossus supercomputer cluster, which currently consists of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs.
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SK Telecom and Samsung have developed AI technology capable of optimising 5G base stations.
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Open source has been a driving factor behind the ever-continuing rise in AI. From the early days of OpenAI (before it closed its doors) and Meta’s ever-growing herd of llamas, open source AI has powered tools and technologies used by industries all over the world.
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Meta has partnered with Lumen Technologies to “significantly increase” its network capacity to meet the increased demand for its AI models and services.
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Tech Mahindra has opened a Centre of Excellence (CoE) powered by Nvidia AI Enterprise and Omniverse platforms.
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As many as 11 academics, lawyers, philosophers and private sector leaders in AI and data have been recruited to Orange's new Ethics Council.
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Sinch CEO Oscar Werner tells Melanie Mingas how and why the firm got its foothold in India, and why the coming years will see more app dollars rerouted to messaging innovations
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Airtel Africa is selling its telecoms tower companies in Madagascar, Malawi, Chad and Gabon to Helios Towers.
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EY has named its new TMT sector lead for strategy and transactions as its latest data confirms the UK's leading position for mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
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The chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel has unveiled a new strategy to take on big tech.
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Four years and three Prime Ministers since the referendum, and the UK is no longer an EU member state. From new regulations to the CMA and the investment potential in Dublin, Melanie Mingas takes a look at the impact
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Qualcomm Technologies has acquired NUVIA for $1.4 billion, in a deal that will see it replace ARM's involvement in the Snapdragon™ platforms.
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Australia welcomes a new ICT mega-project, Digital Realty sells 11 EU data centres and there are new states of matter in telecoms
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TPG's global impact investing platform The Rise Fund is to invest US$200 million in Airtel Mobile Commerce (AMC), with potential for an IPO within four years.
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Ed Cooke, founder of Conexus Law, explains how he sees Brexit impacting data centres and how the industry can make its voice heard as new regulations are developed
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Bevan Slattery’s HyperOne is billed as the first true private national fibre backbone project to connect Australia. Introducing Project HAM
