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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Tillman Fiber has secured US$1 billion in funding for its Florida network expansion, which includes $815 million in committed debt and a new $200 million credit facility that will fund fibre-to-home networks across Florida.
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Fibre broadband and technology provider Converge ICT Solutions (Converge) has announced a partnership with Ribbon Communications (Ribbon) to boost performance on its Filipino fibre network.
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Dutch data centre operator Yondr Group has announced the first 20MW of its 30MW data centre in Slough is ready for service.
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US telecoms operator AT&T has revealed details of a data breach it learned about in April this year, which affected “nearly all” its wireless customers and MVNOs that use its network.
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchinson’s business division has launched a new suite of AI tools targeted at supporting the sustainable growth of the upstream oil and gas industry in Indonesia.
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Ericsson has recorded a billion-dollar impairment charge for its acquisition of Vonage in 2021, marking the second write-down on the deal.
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The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and e& will build the energy industry’s biggest 5G wireless network, spanning 11,000 square kilometres.
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AST SpaceMobile CEO Abel Avellan has published a business update in an open letter, outlining how shared low-band 850Mzh spectrum sharing between AT&T and Verizon will help achieve 100% wireless coverage of North America
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Nokia and Wind River have successfully performed an end-to-end 5G data (Layer 3) call with Nokia’s latest 5G AirScale Cloud RAN solution on Wind River Studio.
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As the race to dominate the AI landscape intensifies, industry eyes are now on Elon Musk's ambitious new venture, xAI and whether it can take on the market leader, OpenAI.
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New Zealand headquartered infrastructure investor Infratil has raised NZ$1150 million (US$704.07 million) to fund further investment into data centre operator CDC Group.
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Macquarie Cloud Services has leveraged strategic relationships with Microsoft and Dell Technologies to launch Macquarie Flex.
