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Meta is making its Llama family of AI language models available to US government and defence agencies to power security-related AI applications. -
Meta has partnered with Lumen Technologies to “significantly increase” its network capacity to meet the increased demand for its AI models and services.
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Meta is set to take on OpenAI’s Sora model with its own AI video generation system: Movie Gen.
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A legal and commercial dispute between Deutsche Telekom and Meta has escalated, with both companies trading shots over the future of their data traffic arrangements in Germany.
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Gary Waterworth, a stalwart of the subsea industry has died following a battle with cancer.
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Mark Zuckerberg is vowing to increase spending on AI, in a bid to make Meta the “leading AI company in the world”, causing its shares to fall by around 12%.
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India’s financial regulator has fined Reliance Industries, the owner of Jio, for failing to announce Facebook’s US$5.7 billion investment. Two compliance officers were also fined.
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Seventy companies from the data centre industry have promised to reduce carbon in digital infrastructure materials, products and power – only six weeks after the campaign started.
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Meta is to invest more than US$800 million in a new data centre that it said will be the "first of its kind in Missouri".
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Aqua Comms, Bulk Fiber Networks (Bulk) and Meta have completed the construction of the Havhingsten cable system.
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Meta has announced plans for significant infrastructure and people investment in Spain, as part of its plans to deliver the next phase of the internet, also known as the Metaverse.
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CommScope has become the latest name to join Meta Connectivity's Evenstar initiative, which is working build general-purpose RAN reference designs for 4G and 5G networks in the Open RAN ecosystem.
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The metaverse will converge and build on what already exists, while tapping into evolving technologies like sound waves, to transform this into a new fully immersive, persistent, and sensory environment. Haifa El Ashkar, executive director corporate strategy, CSG, writes
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The US government last week recommended that Google and Meta’s undersea data cable to Asia should be approved for use.
