Today Top Story
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Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark is set step to down, with Intel’s data centre and AI general manager Justin Hotard set to take over. -
Numerous major tech and telecom companies have decided to abandon their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) goals in 2025.
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr revealed that the agency is considering auctioning off more C-band spectrum.
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The UK government is set to overhaul planning rules for nuclear reactors, making it easier to build new clean energy sources for power data centres.
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DeepSeek burst onto the scene last week and upended the long-dominant big boys of AI with its smaller, more efficient approach to language model design.
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The keynote panel at Capacity Middle East 2025 believe that the infrastructure and investments are available to meet demand, but insists industry leaders must work together to "keep prices lower".
Forthcoming events
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Ooredoo partners with ASN to launch the Fibre in Gulf (FIG) submarine cable, enhancing connectivity across seven GCC countries.
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For the past two decades, Capacity Middle East has become the leading event for the telecoms sector in the region.
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Ofcom has greenlit Amazon’s satellite broadband service to provide connectivity to households, businesses, and government agencies in the UK.
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OpenAI has teamed up with SoftBank to launch SB OpenAI Japan, a joint venture developing AI tools and models specifically for Japanese businesses.
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Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire and one of the world’s richest individuals, has reduced his stake in BT Group for the first time since his initial investment in the company.
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DeepSeek took the world by storm this week. However, new research reveals the Chinese AI model has serious ethical and security flaws, including being 11 times more likely to generate harmful output than OpenAI’s o1.
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Capacity explores the true costs of DeepSeek's AI model, the safety concerns it raises, and the impact of censorship on its global reception.
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Technology leaders have responded with admiration and intrigue following DeepSeek’s launch of its flagship language model, R1.
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A section of fibre optic cable that links Latvia to the Swedish island of Gotland has become the latest subsea system in the Baltics to be damaged.
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Apple and Google are the subjects of an investigation under the UK competition watchdog’s new digital markets competition regime, with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) probing its dominance in the mobile market.
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Elon Musk has taken a swipe at OpenAI over its involvement in Project Stargate, claiming the ChatGPT maker “don’t actually have the money”.
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First, there was deep learning, which was quickly replaced by generative AI. Then foundational or to some, frontier AI became THE buzzword. Then multimodal AI. Now, it’s the turn of agentic AI.
Forthcoming events
Datacloud Asia 2025 co-located with ITW Asia
3 DECEMBER - 4 DECEMBER 2025 Singapore, Singapore
