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Written by Ilex Community Manager | 10-Jan-2025 10:12:15

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

The stories cover super- intelligence, the space race, FTTP networks, AI, data centres, internet-connected devices, cybersecurity, the cloud, broadband, 4G and Meta's policy updates.

Here are our highlights:

monday_____________________________

OpenAI is turning its attention to ‘superintelligence’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he believes OpenAI “know[s] how to build [artificial general intelligence]” as the company has traditionally understood it, and is beginning to turn its aim to “superintelligence.”

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

Why Elon Musk’s Starship rocket is beating Nasa in the space race

The SpaceX chief’s powerful new system is set to slash the cost of missions, leaving Nasa in the dust. Musk’s company has already reduced the cost of putting cargo into orbit round the Earth by a factor of 10.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3PpD3p7

tuesday___________________________

Openreach's FTTP network now covers half of the UK

BT's infrastructure arm Openreach capped off a strong 2024 by reaching a significant milestone in its fibre deployment. By the end of the year its FTTP network was available to 17 million premises, equal to half of all UK homes and businesses.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/40r71yj

Microsoft plans $80bn AI data centre push with half earmarked for the US

Microsoft plans to invest $80 billion to build AI-enabled data centres, Brad Smith, the company’s president has revealed. In a blog post, Smith outlined the company’s “golden opportunity” to invest in infrastructure to support AI.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/4gX3dvm

Wednesday___________________________

Soldier who exploded Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump hotel 'used generative AI to plan attack'

Police in Las Vegas have reviewed Matthew Livelsberger's AI searches prior to the explosion on New Year's Day.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/424Dc99

Internet-connected devices can now have a label that rates their security

The White House has unveiled a new label for smart thermostats, baby monitors, app-controlled lights and other internet-connected devices that will allow consumers to see how the popular items rate on cyber-safety criteria.

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

thursday____________________________

AWS to invest $5bn in Thailand with new cloud region launch

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region will feature three Availability Zones (AZs), each of which are fully isolated partitions of AWS’ infrastructure, supported by several data centre sites.

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

UK broadband traffic jumped 10% last year

According to Openreach, broadband traffic across the UK increased by 10.5% in 2024 to 103,590 Petabytes (Pb) of data. It says it’s annual update is the most comprehensive data available from the company, which builds and maintains the fibre network used by customers of more than 300 service providers.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/4h5gwd0

Friday____________________________

Nokia brings 4G to the Moon for South Pole mission

Nokia is set to bring connectivity to the Moon after its hardware was successfully installed onto landers ahead of a 239,000-mile journey to its southern pole. Nokia’s Lunar Surface Communication System (LSCS) was installed onto the Athena lander as part of the IM-2 mission, which seeks to examine ice near the Moon’s south pole.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/4haqDgM

Politics content to be pushed on all Instagram and Threads users

Users will no longer be able to opt out of being shown political content from people they do not follow. Meta says it's part of its reorientation towards "free expression" - a move that saw it ditch fact checkers on Tuesday.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3E0OqkL

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