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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Aramco Digital and Intel plans to establish Saudi Arabia’s first Open RAN (radio access network) development centre.
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Telecom Egypt and Zain Omantel International (ZOI) are partnering to establish a new digital corridor connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Arabian Sea and Arabian Gulf, creating a Eurasian data highway.
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Converge ICT Solutions (Converge) and Dito Telecommunity Corp (Dito) have signed a master facility provisioning agreement that will see the two Filipino companies share subsea cable and fibre assets.
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Infrastructure investor DigitalBridge has hired Ersin Yorulmaz as co-head of European capital formation in a move it says strengthens its commitment to the European region.
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OpenAI and its chief financial backer Microsoft are firmly at the epicentre of several lawsuits regarding copyright infringement.
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat) confirms that BDx Indonesia, a joint venture of Indosat, BDx Data Centers, and Lintasarta, has agreed to acquire its data centre and edge portfolio.
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As organisations continue to embrace edge computing a new approach to cybersecurity needs to be taken.
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OpenAI and Microsoft, its chief financial backer, have been hit with another lawsuit by a pair of nonfiction authors, Reuters reports.
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Rivada Space Networks is partnering with Wiseband, an Emirati satellite services company, to bring secure connectivity solutions to the Middle East.
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Professor William Webb, CTO of Access Partnership
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EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure confirms the completion of a $1.9 billion debt financing transaction to fund the development of its data centre campus in Mesa, Arizona.
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The Connectivity Standards Alliance has announced the appointment of Michelle Mindala-Freeman as its new chief operating officer (COO).
