BROWSING: AI

‘If you don’t start, it never happens’ – Nokia kickstarts 5G-AI rush in Industry 4.0

Beyond the inner workings of mostly-public telecoms, about the navel gazing of open RAN and open APIs to re-make operators as ‘digital natives’ in the post-digital era, what will be the hottest topic at MWC next week? Sustainability? Well, yes; but that is a...

Softbank’s Son reportedly seeks $100B for AI chip venture

Softbank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son wants to raise $100 billion for a new company focused on artificial intelligence microchips, according to Bloomberg. The venture, dubbed Project Izanagi, is aimed at setting up an AI chip company to complement Softbank's Arm and to challenge...

Telco AI Forum 2024

The Breakthrough Moment: Time for Telco to Step Up?

Intel touts ‘mainstream’ private 5G ahead of MWC – with AWS, Cisco, Nokia, NTT etc

Intel is pushing the private 5G angle ahead of MWC in Barcelona at the end of the month – plus the AI one, the edge one, the transformation one, and the ecosystem one. It has issued a press announcement to trumpet its involvement in...

EY opens ‘edge lab’ for AI systems in Industry 4.0 – Dell, PTC, GE, Microsoft involved

Professional services outfit Ernst & Young (EY) is to open an edge technologies lab (EY Edge Technologies Lab) in London with US-based Dell Technologies to demonstrate and develop edge-based “ecosystem technologies” to help enterprises with digital transformation. The venue will focus on industry-specific use...

IBM opens AI school for telcos: ‘A critical phase – not just of AI, but for all telecoms’

The big announcement last week from IBM and the GSMA about teaching telcos in the ways of the force – as in generative artificial intelligence (AI) – is not just about telcos. Or rather, it is not just about showing telcos how to use...

Siemens adds generative AI to Senseye predictive maintenance solution

Siemens is to bundle generative AI with its machine learning software for predictive maintenance cases, which draws on data from IoT sensors and other operational metrics in production machines and processes to guide industrial companies on timely maintenance fixes and interventions. The move means...

SK Telecom develops key tech for 6G evolution with Intel

SK Telecom and Intel developed Inline Service Mesh utilizing Intel Xeon processors with built in AI Korean telco SK Telecom announced that, in collaboration with Intel, it has successfully developed technology to reduce communication delays necessary for the evolution of a 6G core architecture. In a...

IBM up in Q4 on AI consulting and software

For enterprise AI, “Flexibility of deployment is key,” according to IBM CEO Arvind Krishna IBM this week reported a 4% year-over-year increase in revenue to $17.4 billion in the fourth quarter, and full-year revenue up 2% to $61.9. In prepared remarks, CEO Arvind Krishana primarily...

AI means showtime for enterprise network modernisation
 (Reader Forum) 

Networking has had something of a shock to the system over the last few years. For a long time, its essential role in the functioning of enterprise operations went under the radar, underappreciated by most apart from those involved in technical roles. Then 2020...

Singtel adds Starlink connectivity to its maritime portfolio of services

Singtel said that the new offering will allow ship operators to analyze data in real-time to increase productivity, reduce costs of fuel consumption and improve operational maintenance Singapore carrier Singtel announced that it will expand its maritime digital offerings with Starlink’s satellites with the aim...

NTT Docomo unveils new tech for 5G, 6G, GenAI

NTT Docomo said that technologies such as extreme-high-speed transmissions over 100Gbps, together with AI, will be deployed to meet the advanced requirements of future 6G systems Japanese telco NTT Docomo plans to unveil a number of new technologies for 5G's evolution, 6G and generative AI...

Vodafone to spin-off IoT unit in 2024 with major Microsoft cloud tie-up

Vodafone’s IoT connectivity unit is to become a standalone business by April of next year (2024) following a major 10-year deal with Microsoft that will see both firms invest in the business, and the UK-based operator also commit $1.5 billion over the period to...

AI and the 5G Revolution with Ajay Malik of secomind.ai

Step into the future of AI with Ajay Malik, CEO of secomind.ai, in today's episode of 5G Talent Talk with Carrie Charles. Ajay shares his passion for AI, drawing on his extensive 30-year career, which includes stints at major tech players like Motorola, Google,...

Customer priorities, crossover products, cultural profiles – talking HPE + Juniper

Clearly, the focus of the initial response among the analyst community to HPE’s proposed $14 billion takeover of Juniper Networks, announced last week, has been on the latter’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in the networking space, acquired and developed since its own purchase of...

Intel CEO on the three laws of edge computing, and what it means for AI

During a CES keynote, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger predicted “at least” a 10-year AI super cycle as automation is brought into different industries AI everywhere—that’s the new tagline from Intel as it optimizes its silicon for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, and partners with its growing...

Smarter than the average ‘G’: The role of AI/ML in 6G systems

Future 6G systems are already coming into focus through research and early development, and one of the most exciting aspects is the role that artificial intelligence will play in the next generation of cellular systems.   First, a note on artificial intelligence versus machine learning....

The AI clone wars: five ways artificial intelligence will impact telcos and consumers in 2024 (Reader Forum)

“The shroud of the dark side has fallen. Begun the Clone War has.”  Rest assured, the future for telcos in 2024 is far less dire than this line from Star Wars – Attack of the Clones. But you wouldn’t know it based on growing industry concerns...

Vantage Data Centers lands $6.4b investment driven by ‘unprecedented cloud and AI demand’

Vantage's longtime financial backers lead the investment, driven by anticipated need for more data center capacity Vantage Data Centers has garnered $6.4 billion in equity investment, lead by digital infrastructure investment company DigitalBridge and tech backer Silver Lake, that the data center company says will...

HPE confirms $14bn Juniper deal to make it a ‘new networking leader’

Cloud and edge solutions provider Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has confirmed it has agreed a deal to acquire enterprise networking specialist Juniper Networks for $14 billion. The acquisition will double HPE’s networking business, increasing from around 18 percent of its total annual revenue to...

Verizon on enterprise 5G in 2024: ‘Everyone is interested’ 

Private 5G and network slicing set to drive enterprise adoption of 5G  In a wide-ranging conversation with RCR Wireless News, Verizon Business Chief Revenue Officer for Global Enterprise and Public Sector Massimo Peselli shared his outlook for 2024. With a growing private 5G business and...

TeamViewer invests ‘double-digit millions’ in Industry 4.0 duo to drive AI/AR IoT offer

German enterprise group-comms software provider TeamViewer, which has featured prominently in remote collaboration and augmented reality (AR) use cases for early private cellular network deployments, has invested a “low double-digit million” euro sum into two separate Industry 4.0 solution providers: US-based industrial data platform...

The Sunday Brief: CES preview—you want some AI with that?

Holiday greetings from Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri (picture is from the top of the Cranmer trail run at the Winter Park ski resort).  We hope each of you have had an excellent Holiday season so far, and that your football team wins.   After a full...

Green energy is driving hybrid and open edge-cloud architectures (Reader Forum)

Power distribution systems are rapidly evolving across the world in an effort to reduce carbon emissions and meet bold climate goals. Today, governments at the national, state and local levels are collectively investing trillions of dollars to build renewable energy sources and modernize their...