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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A massive AT&T outage that meant people were unable to make calls was not caused by a cyberattack.
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Global Message Services (GMS) will expand beyond legacy messaging to become an AI communications solutions partner for mobile operators and enterprises.
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Globe Teleservices has formed a strategic alliance with Honora Tanzania (Tigo Tanzania), a mobile network operator in Tanzania, which is part of the Axian Telecom group.
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Virtus Data Centres (Virtus), part of the ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Group, has announced plans for a new data centre campus in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire.
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OpenAI has unveiled its latest product, Sora, which generates videos from text prompts.
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Grain Management (Grain), a broadband and communications solutions provider, has completed its acquisition of QSH Parent Holdco (Quintillion), a provider of connectivity in Alaska and the North American Arctic.
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Comarch has been awarded one of the first permits to use dedicated 4 to 4.1GHz radio frequencies for private 5G networks in Poland.
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Under the terms of a new agreement between Vodafone and e&, Hatem Dowidar, group CEO of e& will join the Vodafone board as a non-executive director.
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Yondr Group has formed a strategic partnership with Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni), one of the largest conglomerates in Japan.
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Batelco, part of the Beyon Group, and e& have signed an MoU for the landing of Al Khaleej subsea cable in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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Raphael Jouenne, Chief Strategy Officer at center3, talks to Capacity's Nadine Hawkins about the company's journey to become a digital hub, including its evolution, challenges, and recent agreement to acquire CMC Networks.
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Yondr Group in partnership with JK Land Holdings (JKLH) has broken ground on its second 48MW data centre in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia.
