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Global B2B TECH & TELECOMS NEWS (11/11/2024 - 15/11/2024)

Written by Ilex Community Manager | 15-Nov-2024 09:57:16

This week's roundup looked at the top news stories from the Global B2B tech & telecoms industry.

The stories cover Amazon, Anthropic, AI, IT, Singtel, Cyber defence, Meta, VR, Ericsson, e&, 6G, DTCP, Data centers, Sustainability, Apple, iCloud, Gartner, O2, Bluesky and Social Media.

 

Here are our highlights:

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Amazon mulls new multi-billion dollar investment in Anthropic

The cloud services giant announced an investment of $4 billion in the OpenAI rival in September last year, saying its customers would gain early access to Anthropic's technology.

Read the full story here:  https://reut.rs/48LZjCp


AI drives European IT spending

The move to artificial intelligence is driving a surge in spending on data centre infrastructure and IT services in Europe, according to new data published by Gartner on Thursday.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3AMZOiZ

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Singtel Expands Suite of Quantum-Safe Solutions for Enhanced Cyber Defense

It aims to help enterprises fortify their defenses against cyber threats and scale more securely in the quantum age. 

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3YHMpAJ

Meta trials educational VR tech with US and UK universities

Meta has teamed up with a number of universities in the US and the UK to test new education applications for its Quest VR devices.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3O6fFwm

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Ericsson and e& join forces to explore 6G

Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has signed a memorandum of understanding with UAE operator e& with the aim of trying to work out what the point of 6G is.

 

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3YJqp8B

DTCP backs new sustainable data centre firm GreenScale with £1bn

Investment firm DTCP has backed the new sustainable data centre platform GreenScale, to support its efforts to sustainably support hyperscale and AI workloads.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/40IJwCi

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Apple faces UK ‘iCloud monopoly’ compensation claim worth $3.8 billion

U.K. consumer rights group ‘Which?’ is filing a legal claim against Apple under competition law on behalf of some 40 million users of iCloud, its cloud storage service.

Read the full story here: https://tcrn.ch/3ASdglH

 

AI boom could leave 40% of data centres power-starved by 2027: Gartner

The analyst firm estimated that the power required for data centres to run incremental AI-optimised servers will reach 500 terawatt-hours (TWh) per year in 2027 — 2.6 times the levels in 2023.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3O6sK8D

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O2 Launches AI-Powered Scam Fighting Tool 'DAISY'

As ‘Head of Scammer Relations’, this state-of-the-art AI Granny’s mission is to talk with fraudsters and waste as much of their time as possible with human-like rambling chat to keep them away from real people. 

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3Z6C6HO 
 

Bluesky says 1 million people signed up for the platform in last 24 hours

On Thursday evening that over 1 million people signed up for the platform in the last 24 hours, making it one of the busiest days for the company. 

Read the full story here: https://tcrn.ch/3YX87B8 

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