This week's roundup looked at the top news stories from the Global B2B tech & telecoms industry.
The stories cover Data Centres, Open AI, Broadband, Dhiraagu, Subsea Cables, Netomnia, ChatGPT, Deep Fake, Airtel, Amazon, AI, Connectivity and Telecoms
Here are our highlights:
monday_____________________________
Data centres are on course to use as much electricity as the EU
ABI Research warns that power grids will struggle to meet the insatiable energy demands of data centres unless the industry can reduce its environmental footprint.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3M7latE
OpenAI blocks Iranian group's ChatGPT accounts for targeting US election
OpenAI said on Friday it had taken down accounts of an Iranian group for using its ChatGPT chatbot to generate content meant for influencing the U.S. presidential election and other issues.
Read the full story here: https://reut.rs/3ADiDVk
tuesday___________________________
Canterbury remains the UK's slowest city for broadband
The report notes that Canterbury clocked in with average broadband speeds of 22 Mbps, around the bare minimum offered by the most basic superfast packages.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/4fV0cvx
SeaMeWe-6 lands in the Maldives
Maldives telco Dhiraagu, the landing partner for this portion of the cable, said it had inaugurated the cable, although it is still two years away from activation. The 21,700km cable links France and Singapore via the Red Sea and is planned to have 17 landing points in 15 countries.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3Xcfc0E
wednesday___________________________
Netomnia joins Strategic Imperatives to strengthen UK fibre connectivity
Strategic Imperatives has revealed that Netomni has become part of The Fibre Café scheme, following its recent merger with Brsk. The move enables Netomnia to utilise The Fibre Café to onboard a broader range of ISPs.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/46Uhftz
OpenAI signs deal to train on Condé Nast content, surface stories in ChatGPT
OpenAI has inked a deal with Condé Nast — the publisher of The New Yorker, Vogue, and Wired — to surface stories from its properties in OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT and its search prototype SearchGPT.
Read the full story here: https://tcrn.ch/3ZbDOIH
thursday____________________________
Telecom that enabled Biden deepfake scam will pay FCC $1M
Early this year, AI-powered fake audio of President Biden reached voters in New Hampshire. The FCC identified the perpetrator as the Texas-based Life Corporation, and handed them with a $6 million fine.
Read the full story here: https://tcrn.ch/3MekRwW
Airtel Data Center Unit Nxtra Boosts Renewable Energy Use by 41%
Nxtra Data unveiled the second edition of its Sustainability Report for FY 2023-24. The report highlights Nxtra’s consistent and increasing focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) parameters.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3YWnawm
friday____________________________
The movie reviews in Lionsgate’s Megalopolis trailer were made up
Hours after it was released, Lionsgate pulled a trailer for Megalopolis that was clearly “gunning for the haters” with a selection of negative quotes about director Francis Ford Coppola’s previous works.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3WUs22t
Chinese entities turn to Amazon cloud to access high-end US chips, AI
State-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services provided by Amazon or its rivals to access advanced U.S. chips and artificial intelligence capabilities that they cannot acquire otherwise, recent public tender documents showed.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3SZZMKL
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