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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Microsoft has hit back at Google Cloud's claims that its licensing terms “restrict” customers from moving to competitors, claiming the hyperscale rival is secretly funding a group trying to discredit the company.
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Join Capacity Media, as we speak with Stefano Marsilli, General Manager – Product and Marketing at center3, about the company's role as a digital infrastructure leader in the Middle East. Discover center3's innovative "digital hub" concept, gain insights into the region's evolving digital landscape, and learn about the challenges, opportunities, and center3’s bold vision for the future.
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Elon Musk has announced that xAI, his AI startup rivalling OpenAI, plans to double the size of its Colossus supercomputer cluster, which currently consists of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs.
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AT&T has signed a purchase agreement worth more than $1 billion with Corning to secure solutions to expand its network.
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DigitalBridge Group has agreed to acquire Yondr Group, a major developer and operator of hyperscale data centres, through its managed investment fund, enhancing DigitalBridge’s digital infrastructure portfolio.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are set to pioneer a breakthrough in communication technology by testing quantum communications using quantum entanglement.
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Latin American data centre operator ODATA unveiled plans to construct two facilities in Colombia to provide 144MW of connectivity to the region.
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GlobalNet has launched a new 1,200km subset route connecting Stockholm and Berlin to expand its European network infrastructure.
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AT&T ratified two agreements with employees represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union to offer them wage increases following strikes earlier this year.
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Angola Cables has launched a European subsidiary, TelCables Europe, to bring its digital solutions to customers across Europe and the Mediterranean.
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Chris Sambar, formerly the president and head of networks at AT&T has joined self-storage company Public Storage.
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Airtel Business, the B2B arm of Indian telco Bharti Airtel, has partnered with Ericsson-owned Vonage to launch a unified business communications application to simplify customer engagements.
