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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Picocom, a semiconductor and software specialist, has launched PC805, a new system-on-chip (SoC) optimised for 5G small cell Open RAN radio units (O-RUs).
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Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (Cordiant) has agreed to acquire Norkring België (Norkring), a provider of communication and broadcast towers in Belgium for €5.25 million.
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Digital Realty has formed definitive agreements with Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and its institutional partners (Brookfield), Cyxtera Technologies (Cyxtera) and Digital Core REIT that resolves the relationship with Cyxtera.
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UK investment vehicle Zegona has reached an agreement with Vodafone to purchase its Spanish business for 5 billion euros.
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Pulsant has announced a further £4.5 million into its Manchester data centre.
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KKR and OMS Group have signed a definitive agreement under which KKR will invest $400 million in a tailored solution for OMS Group.
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With the latest financial reporting season well upon us, Capacity rounds up the top line findings from five telcos in third quarter 2023.
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Telecom services are slowly being restored to the Gaza strip after the most significant internet blackout since the conflict began occurred on Friday.
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Cloud provider Zenlayer and Mobily, Saudi Arabia’s second largest internet service provider (ISP), announced a new partnership at Capacity Europe.
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Altice Portugal, through Altice Wholesale Solutions, confirms the launch of its new international network interconnection centre at a cost of €3 million.
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Tonomus, Neom’s digital infrastructure subsidiary, has signed a multi-year agreement with stc group to acquire from LEO satellite capacity from Tonomus in Saudi Arabia.
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Fahad Alhajeri, CEO at center3, talks to Capacity's Jack Haddon about digital transformation, emerging industries, data consumption and the benefit of Saudi Arabia's geographical location.
