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From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): AT&T’s AI strategy suggests the real breakthrough is not bigger language models, but smarter orchestration. As inference becomes a network workload, …

Physical AI describes intelligent systems that can sense, interpret, and act in real environments Picture a warehouse robot weaving through aisles at top speed, or a massive shipping crane hoisting …

Volkswagen’s €1 billion “no-process-without-AI” plan reveals a Europe-first strategy to embed AI across every operation – balancing resilience, sovereignty, and openness amid fragmented regulation and intensifying global competition in Industry …

Paris-based Mistral AI has signed a major deal with automaker Stellantis to deploy customized industrial AI models, following a €1.7 billion funding round led by ASML, with which it is …

Hitachi is building a global AI Factory using Nvidia GPUs to deliver physical AI – industrial AI, plus domain-specific SLMs/LLMs – for rail, energy, factories, and infrastructure, integrating IoT, digital …

KT and Viettel had signed an initial framework agreement in May of this year In sum – what to know: Southeast Asia AI push – KT and Viettel will jointly …

AWS has expanded its AI offerings with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Bedrock and OpenAI’s open weight models on Bedrock and SageMaker; they join a stable …

SK Telecom said AX 3.1 Lite offers Korean language capabilities on par with its larger sibling, AX 4.0 Lite, which has 72 billion parameters In sum – what to know: …

Nokia has launched a first-of-its-kind suite of telco-trained AI models and tools, built with Google Cloud, to enable agentic automation across domains. In parallel, the firm is opening its network-as-code …

NOTE (*): This article has been edited to reflect that the paper, The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking, was wrongfully attributed to Anthropic, the company, as the lead author. …

New research from Apple casts serious doubts about excitable claims about sentient machines. Results suggest large reasoning models collapse under pressure – challenging the AGI concept, and exposing AI industry …

As AI becomes more embedded in our daily lives, supporting infrastructure must evolve to meet the surging demands. While GPUs and data center design often attract the attention, networking is …

SK Telecom says the partnership will increase its ability to deliver ‘high-impact AI intelligence tailored to the evolving needs of telecom and adjacent industries’ SK Telecom has signed a strategic …

The GSMA has identified significant limitations around the ability of current AI models to address telecom-specific queries Ahead of Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2025, the GSMA Foundry, the association’s innovation hub, …

China Telecom was the first telco to adopt DeepSeek with the launch of a full-stack DeepSeek-R1/V3 inferencing on its Xiran intelligent computing platform Over the weekend, China’s Ministry of Industry …

Yesterday was a busy one with quarterly earnings calls from major AI infrastructure players Microsoft and Meta. And, as expected, the CEOs fielded questions about Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s splashy …

Telefónica Tech has released a generative AI (gen AI) platform for enterprises to create their own virtual assistants. It integrates with backend enterprise systems and sundry hyperscale cloud services, and …

SK Telecom initially introduced its AI agent at the SK AI Summit in Seoul last November Korean carrier SK Telecom announced plans to release a beta version of its AI-powered …

SK Telecom collaborated with leading global LLM companies to develop a sophisticated AI system specifically tailored for telecommunications applications Korean telco SK Telecom announced the successful completion of its AI …

SK Telecom said that its Aster service is scheduled to launch a closed beta in North America later this year, with a full market launch planned for 2025 Korean carrier …

SK Telecom said the revamp aims to transform the A. app into an AI personal assistant focused on enhancing daily convenience for customers Korean carrier SK Telecom is doing a …

Fujitsu is working with US data security and privacy outfit Cohere on a number of industry-geared AI projects, including joint development of a Japanese large language model (LLM) for enterprises …

In this special episode of Will 5G Change the World?, presented in partnership with NETSCOUT, we dive into the world of telco AI. As operators develop and implement long-term AI …