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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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has started a detailed Phase 2 investigation looking into Vodafone UK’s joint venture agreement with Three UK.
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Bayobab white paper: read about the big developments taking place to extend connectivity across Africa.
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AtlasEdge has entered the Portuguese market with the acquisition of two adjacent sites in Lisbon that will deliver more than 20MW of IT load.
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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has agreed to acquire a 51% stake in Saudi Telecom Company (stc’s) carve out towerco TAWAL.
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Malaysia’s Axiata and India’s Bharti Airtel have signed an agreement to merge their Sri Lankan telecom operators.
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e& Carrier & Wholesale has launched a stack of new off-net services under its managed services portfolio including Roaming-as-a-service (RaaS).
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Wireless Logic, a global IoT provider, has secured authorised reseller status for SpaceX’s Starlink.
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Auramo will replace Giorgio Migliarina, who has been serving as interim CEO since September 2023, on July 1 of this year.
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Virgin Media Business Wholesale has confirmed that it will not raise its prices for new businesses or existing services across all products throughout 2024.
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Northumberland County Council is set to consider a proposed sale of the Northumberland Energy Park (NEP3) land site in Cambois to Blackstone, so a hyperscale data centre can be built.
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The Vast Data Platform will now be available on Google Cloud.
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Global InterXchange (GIX), a provider of dark fibre infrastructure solutions, is partnering with NYI, a data centre and interconnection business, to launch a new fibre route connecting Lower Manhattan, Northern New Jersey.
