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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e& will partner with PPF in four markets, excluding Czech Republic.
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The ten largest cloud service providers spent $114 billion on data centre infrastructure in 2022.
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Elisa Oyj (Elisa) confirms the successful deployment of its first fully automated edge data centre, the second edge site to go into commercial production this year.
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Sparkle has signed an agreement with Genoa Data Internet eXchange (Ge-DIX), a non-profit consortium of interconnection services, to establish an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) at Sparkle's Genoa Digital Hub data centre.
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Global operators have formed the global telco AI alliance for collaboration and innovation in AI.
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Infratil, a New Zealand-based infrastructure investment company, has entered into a conditional agreement with HKT, a Hong-Kong telco, for an 80% stake in Console Connect for US$160 million.
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Salam in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has teamed up with Edgnex Data Centres by Damac, Cinturion Corp (Cinturion) and Emaar to ink a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the development of telecoms and digital infrastructure.
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €315 million finance contract with Cellnex for the development of 5G mobile telecoms infrastructure in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Poland.
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The European Data Centre Association (EUDCA) confirms the unanimous election of three new members to its board of directors.
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Astrocast confirms the extension of its partnership with Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus).
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Tonomus, the technology company of Neom, has announced the launch of its first data centre facility in Oxagon, Saudi Arabia.
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EY-Parthenon’s Profit Warning Report has found that 66 profit warnings were issued by UK-listed companies in Q2 2023.
