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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GTA, a leading telecoms and digital infrastructure provider in Guam has announced that the GTA GNC iX data centre is now a strategic point-of-presence (PoP) for PLDT Global.
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Nokia and A1 Austria (A1) have completed the industry’s first 5G edge cloud network slicing with Microsoft.
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Consult Red, a provider of connected devices and systems, confirms the appointment of David Webster as chief financial officer (CFO).
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Vodafone Romania has named Ericsson as a key 5G radio access network (RAN) partner enabling infrastructure upgrade and 5G deployment opportunities.
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The IRAQ-IXP Iraq Internet Exchange (IX) powered by DE-CIX is now live and connecting networks.
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Numeracle, a provider of verified identity and entity identity management for communications, has named Mary Clark as its new chief operating officer (COO).
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Vodafone and e& have partnered to provide other operators with managed voice solutions.
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Kyndryl has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to develop ‘responsible’ generative AI solutions and to accelerate adoption among customers.
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China Mobile International (CMI) and Batelco (Bahrain Telecommunications Company) part of the Beyon group, have formed a partnership during Capacity Middle East 2024.
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Bayobab Group, as part of the 2Africa consortium, confirms the landing of the 45,000km 2Africa subsea cable in Ghana and Nigeria.
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e&, Telecom Egypt, Telin and a major Indian operator have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to form a consortium with the aim to develop the ICE IV Project.
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Aqua Comms has formed a long-term lease agreement for trans-Atlantic subsea spectrum with Energy Sciences Network (ESnet).
