Companies
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The latest court filings in Elon Musk’s existential AI lawsuit against OpenAI revealed more fascinating insights, including a discussion about potentially acquiring sizable semiconductor firm Cerebras and Musk’s desperation to be CEO. -
MasOrange, Telefónica, and Vodafone Group have teamed up with the i2CAT research centre to launch a multi-operator Open Gateway API lab in Europe.
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is working with GoTo to launch an open source language model designed for local Indonesian languages.
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Engineers at Vodafone are working with AMD to design mobile base stations capable of supporting AI workloads in addition to traditional network operations while using less power.
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Dell has expanded its AI for Telecom offerings, bringing new hardware support and a variety of new use case-focused solutions designed to help operators augment their edge operations using AI.
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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of SpaceX and Starlink, Tesla, X and xAI will have a role in the upcoming second Trump administration, having been appointed to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Forthcoming events
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Ericsson has teamed up with e& United Arab Emirates to jointly explore 6G use cases and next-generation networks.
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The Biden administration is pressing on with handing out subsidies to semiconductor manufacturers despite President-Elect Donald Trump’s threats to scrap the CHIPS Act.
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stc inaugurated two digital infrastructure projects in Bahrain to expand connectivity in the region.
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Satellite direct-to-device provider Lynk Global has replaced Dan Dooley as CEO just two months after he was appointed, with Ramu Potarazu taking up the leadership position.
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ChatGPT developers OpenAI are behind the apparent eight-figure purchase of the chat.com domain.
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José María Álvarez-Pallete, chair and CEO of Telefónica, issued an impassioned letter thanking volunteers for helping during catastrophic flash flooding in Valencia, Spain.
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Telia has expanded its partnership with Broadcom to extend its use of VMware solutions, including the Telco Cloud Platform to support automation efforts across its network.
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Apple’s $1.5 billion investment in satellite communications firm Globalstar, changes the direct-to-device (D2D) satellite game according to Emma Mohr-McClune, chief analyst of technology at GlobalData.
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Vodafone Business has partnered with Oracle to bring Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity to Oracle’s Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP).
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A newly launched cloud lobbying group Microsoft accused of being secretly controlled by Google has hit back at the allegations, claiming it is fighting for equality in a "broken" market.
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To challenge Google's search dominance, telecom giants like Telefónica, SoftBank, and Deutsche Telekom threw their weight behind Perplexity, the conversational AI search startup. Their bet, however, appears under threat — as OpenAI has entered the arena.
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Vodafone Romania has entered talks to potentially acquire parts of former state-controlled telecom company Telekom Romania (TKRM).
