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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AT&T has agreed to pay US$13 million to resolve an investigation over a data breach of a cloud vendor in January 2023.
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Sparkle, the University of Genoa, and the SubOptic Foundation have teamed to establish the world’s first post-graduate degree dedicated to submarine fibre optic cables.
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has partnered with Accenture to accelerate the development of a sovereign AI cloud platform, designed to drive AI-driven digital transformation across Indonesia.
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Dr Ayotunde Coker, CEO of Open Access Data Centres, speaks on edge deployment in Africa.
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ITW Africa: Broadband Telecom (BTI), a Bankai Group company, has revealed an exclusive partnership with Togo Cellular and Telma Madagascar, both subsidiaries of AXIAN Telecom.
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atNorth partners with Wa3rm to recycle excess data centre heat, repurposing it for sustainable large-scale greenhouse vegetable production
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Nokia has signed a multi-year agreement with AT&T to deploy next-generation fibre access technology.
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GlobalNet/DATAIX has established a new point-of-presence (PoP) in Zurich, marking the company’s first entry into Switzerland.
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BDx Indonesia, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH), Lintasarta and NeutraDC, a subsidiary of Telkom Indonesia have launched the first phase of its interconnected internet exchange (IX) ecosystem in Indonesia.
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The project involved 100 million users over 26 sites and was completed in 14 months
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The new building will form part of Yondr’s ambitious plan to create a campus with over 100MW capacity
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The rollout is expected to be completed continent-wide by December 2024, with services already operational in four African countries.
