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Nvidia, the world's most valuable company and a key player in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, has once again shattered expectations with its third-quarter earnings for fiscal 2025. Yet, despite record-breaking results, the company's shares saw a surprising dip in after-hours trading. -
Metro Connect USA, the leading gathering for digital infrastructure professionals, has unveiled its 2025 Social Agenda, offering attendees a unique blend of exclusive events designed to foster connections and drive business opportunities.
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Nebius has launched its first GPU cluster as the AI infrastructure continues its North American expansion.
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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.
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The Frontier supercomputer has lost its crown as the world’s fastest supercomputer to El Capitan, the new exascale supercomputer hosted at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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President-Elect Donald Trump has turned to Brendan Carr to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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Nokia’s next generation 5G AirScale Cloud RAN solution, based on vRAN2.0, will be commercially available this year with general availability expected in 2021.
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The Group Of Seven – the international intergovernmental organisation that counts Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and US as members – has turned its attention to 5G in the hope that an extended membership can create a rival to China’s Huawei.
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Self-Optimising Network (SON) technology developed by Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) – including products and services created with SON – is to be acquired by HCL Technologies.
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The bad news continued for Huawei this week as CFO Meng Wanzhou lost the first bid to block her extradition to the US on charges of bank fraud. She is also accused of misleading HSBC about a Huawei Technologies Co Ltd-owned company’s dealings with Iran.
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Telecoms is now at the front line of the confrontation between the US and China. But why is the FCC wanting to ban Chinese operators, asks Alan Burkitt-Gray.
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Intelsat has launched Intelsat CellBackhaul, an end-to-end managed service that helps MNOs quickly and efficiently deliver 4G and 5G broadband coverage across the US.
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The fortunes of Chinese start-ups looking to list on US stock exchanges could be about to sour as the Senate and Nasdaq both introduced new rules over the last 48 hours.
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AT&T has achieved the top spot in the 2019 US carrier managed SD-WAN services leaderboard benchmark.
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Earlier this month it was reported that officials of the Trump administration had agreed to restrict the supply of chips to Chinese vendor Huawei.
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ZTE share prices fell 23% on Hong Kong stock exchange as news that the company was being investigated by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) for bribery.
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Satellite TV operator SKY has selected data centre firm Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX) to offer connectivity to cloud providers in the United States using the Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric solution.
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Affluence Corporation has announced the acquisition of 5 Stems Inc, a cell tower installation and network maintenance company, amid its move into the 5G infrastructure market.
