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Written by Ilex Community Manager | 08-Aug-2025 09:08:55

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

The stories cover topics including telecom acquisitions, power plant digital makeovers, reducing fraud in WhatsApp, data centre cooling, AI training at University, malware attacks on millions of laptops and new subsea cables in Azores and Hawaii.

Here are our highlights:

monday_____________________________

Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to put its brain chips into UK citizens’ heads

It asked for people who are living with paralysis from conditions such as motor neurone disease or a spinal cord injury to sign up to be considered to have its chips implanted in their brain. Read the full story here.

Vocus seals deal for TPG Telecom’s fibre and wholesale assets in A$5.25bn acquisition

The deal, originally announced in October 2024, received the green light, officially closed at the end of July 2025.

Read the full story here.

tuesday___________________________

Europe's old power plants to get digital makeover driven by AI boom

Some of Europe's ageing coal and gas fired power plants can look forward to a more high-tech future as big tech players, such as Microsoft and Amazon, seek to repurpose them as data centres. Read the full story here.

VMO2 & Daisy's O2 Daisy Launches with £1.4 Billion Revenue, Targets UK B2B Telecoms MARKET

O2 Daisy has launched with a promise to provide the technology to “make every business better.” Read the full story here.

Wednesday___________________________

WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says

WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts linked to scammers targeting people around the world in the first half of this year. Many were tied to scam centres run by organised criminals in South East Asia. Read the full story here.

Nokia picked to upgrade railway network in the Netherlands

The deployment will mean a new cloud-native Global System for Mobile Communications for Railway (GSM-R) core network, which the release describes as a global first for the rail industry.

Read the full story here.

thursday____________________________

Bridge DC to use wastewater for data center cooling in Johor, Malaysia

APAC data center firm Bridge is to use treated wastewater (aka sewage) for its cooling.

Read the full story here.

Google commits $1 billion for AI training at US universities

As reported by Bloomberg, the agreement could see Northern Data give G42's cloud computing unit Core42 access to nearly half of its 23,000 Nvidia GPUs.

Read the full story here.

Friday______________________________

Millions of Dell Laptops Vulnerable to Device Takeover and Persistent Malware Attacks

A wide range of vulnerabilities affects millions of Dell laptops used by government agencies worldwide.

Read the full story here.

Google to develop new cable landing stations in Azores and Hawaii for upcoming subsea cables

Google is developing new landing stations across islands for upcoming subsea fiber cables.
Read the full story here.

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