Today Top Story
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Elon Musk’s feud with OpenAI has taken a new turn, with reports suggesting the billionaire is leading a consortium aiming to buy the ChatGPT maker for $97.4 billion. -
Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark is set step to down, with Intel’s data centre and AI general manager Justin Hotard set to take over.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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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.
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ByteDance has denied reports claiming it plans to invest over $12 billion in AI infrastructure by 2025.
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Telstra International has unveiled plans to enhance its infrastructure to create a “highly autonomous network” by the end of the decade, leveraging AI technologies and digital twins.
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Capacity explores Trump's tech agenda, from CHIPS Act to FCC shakeups and AI policy reversals
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Exa Infrastructure is set to acquire Aqua Comms, a specialist operator of Transatlantic and intra-European subsea infrastructure.
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Three UK has partnered with Ericsson to build the ‘largest mobile packet core network in Europe’.
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Europe’s connectivity leaders, Nokia and Ericsson, alongside ASML and SAP, are spearheading a critical summit in Brussels today to drive a bold vision for the continent’s digital future.
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MOX Networks, a leading fibre-optic network specialist, has acquired spectrum from Google on the Topaz subsea cable system, the first fibre cable to directly connect Canada and Asia, Capacity can exclusively reveal.
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Louisiana is the first US state to secure final approval from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Biden-Harris Administration’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) programme.
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has called for collaboration between Wi-Fi, cellular, and other wireless technologies in its newly released 6G vision statement, warning that industry fragmentation could threaten the goal of achieving truly ubiquitous connectivity.
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Kaleido Intelligence, a leader in roaming and IoT market intelligence, and research and market intelligence company Mobilesquared, have revealed plans to merge to form a single entity in 2025.
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The UK government unveiled plans to “throw the full weight of Whitehall” behind AI, including creating a UK-centric research agency and increasing the country’s infrastructure capacity twentyfold.
Forthcoming events
Datacloud Asia 2025 co-located with ITW Asia
3 DECEMBER - 4 DECEMBER 2025 Singapore, Singapore
