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AT&T open to more fiber M&A at the right price ... and the right place

'I don't want to just buy footprint for the sake of buying it,' says CEO John Stankey.

Foldable smartphone display shipments forecast to increase 44% in 2026 – Omdia

Wider screens are gaining ground. #pressrelease

AI will eat a fifth of tech budgets in 2027, but don't expect it to pay for itself

Forrester says only isolated wins are likely, while 'good enough' open-weight models soak up the tokens

Google Hardens Chrome Against ClickFix Attacks, Insecure HTTP Connections

Protections have been added against scams and social engineering, including new site warnings and server-side Gemini analysis.

Handling risks and investments in the AI era

In this current wave of AI growth, new investment challenges are coming out of the woodwork. However, some argue they're just familiar issues in new disguises.

PHP2Shell Patches Land as First Exploitation Attempts Hit Sensors

Several cybersecurity companies saw exploitation attempts of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 before PHP released the patches.

Singaporean tech company Sea Ltd. launches neocloud subsidiary

Sea Cloud will offer cloud AI services to enterprises around the world

Microsoft exits UK AI data center project over electricity delays

Microsoft has reportedly withdrawn from an agreement to become the anchor customer for a planned artificial intelligence data center in Loughton, England, after delays in securing an electricity connection delayed the facility’s expected…

OpenAI's GPT-6 Agent Removed Safety Monitoring, Then Falsely Denied Doing So

OpenAI has revealed that two artificial intelligence (AI) agents powered by GPT-6.1 Sol and one GPT-6 Astra weakened misalignment monitoring while making requested software changes during two internal coding tasks.

OpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about it

OpenAI agents powered by the GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra models weakened misalignment monitoring during two internal tasks, interpreting coding instructions as authorization to do so.

Memphis councilors reject 18-month data center moratorium

Instead, they ban new projects for 135 days

BT bolsters 5G Standalone footprint, confirms AI-RAN trials with Nokia, Nvidia

The AI-RAN trials are set to take place in the UK's second city next year

Korea eyes wider rollout of 5G-based Wi-Fi on trains

South Korea’s ICT authority pledged to support mobile operators and transit providers to ensure 5G-based Wi-Fi would be available on underground railway networks across the country, following a deployment on two lines in Incheon.

Russian forces destroy GigaCenter data center in Kyiv, Ukraine

As Ukrainian forces attack telecoms facilities in Russian-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk

T-Mobile makes first AI-RAN call with Nokia and Nvidia

T-Mobile takes strides in AI-RAN with the first call with Nokia and Nvidia, and performance gains with Ericsson's AI beamforming.

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Agile Robots, Nvidia target up to 2,000 humanoids in 2027

Germany-based robotics firm Agile Robots reportedly plans to produce up to 2,000 humanoid robots next year through a fresh partnership with Nvidia, targeting universities and corporate research labs.

SC Capital Partners invests in 40MW data center in Pohang, South Korea

Data center being developed with NeoAI Cloud

Tata Power eyes 2.8GW of generation, transmission, and distribution for Indian data center sector

Current estimates have the Indian data center market reaching 26.3GW by 2031-32

Vultr to deploy 20MW AMD MI355X cluster in Chennai, India

Says it will be the country's largest AMD Instinct deployment

AT&T CEO Stankey argues scale matters in satellite debate

AT&T CEO John Stankey outlined the advantages he sees over the potential threat of a direct-to-device (D2D) service by SpaceX during a Q3 earnings call, which included much more low-band spectrum, a scaled network and the ability to…

Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision

Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all feature in Berlin keynote interrupted by environmental protesters

‘Context Bombs’ Cut AI Attack Success by Misleading Agents With Fake Targets

Deceptive prompts lure AI agents into decoys and dead ends, cutting attack success by up to 91% in tests and raising the cost of a successful attack 23-fold.

AI networks drive SONiC boom

Multiple factors are coming together to propel enterprise deployments of SONiC, the open-source network operating system (NOS) created 10 years ago by Microsoft to run on white box switches in hyperscale data centers.

High-Severity Flaws Exploited in Three Days as Ransomware Dominates Q3: Rapid7

Rapid7’s Q3 analysis finds high-severity flaws exploited within three days on average, while AI appeared in just 8% of tracked incidents.