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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Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has launched the first carrier-neutral internet exchange (IX) in the country with the help of DE-CIX.
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Korea Quantum Computing (KQC) has collaborated IBM to offer IBM's most advanced AI software and infrastructure, as well as quantum computing services.
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Vodafone and Three have responded to the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) who launched a formal investigation into their proposed merger.
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Pekka Lundmark, CEO and president of Nokia, has called AT&T’s decision to partner with Ericsson a disappointing outcome, and referred to the Open RAN project as a largely single-sourced RAN network.
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Bulk Data Centers, a Nordic data centre operator, is launching a new facility at the N01 Data Center Campus in Southern Norway.
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PowerX's James Gray gives tips and tricks on how to optimise tower M&A in Africa
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Linxa confirms its successful collaboration with eSIM consumer app Roamless.
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Intelia New Zealand has launched a new subsea cable project that will connect Invercargill in New Zealand to both Sydney and Melbourne in Australia.
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PT Telkom Indonesia Tbk (Telkom) and PT Indosat Tbk (Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison) have formed a strategic alliance to establish an interconnected Internet Exchange (IX) ecosystem.
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Google has confirmed plans for the central Pacific Connect initiative, which will deliver two new intra-Pacific subsea cables, Bulikula and Halaihai.
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Cirion Technologies and Qwilt have partnered to expand Qwilt’s global ecosystem of service providers to enhance its content delivery network in Latin America.
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Octopus Energy’s generation arm, its renewable energy finance division, has made a £200 million investment in Deep Green, a data centre heat reuse technology provider.
