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Australia is moving quickly to shore up the 000 emergency call service ahead of the bushfire season by hauling telco chiefs to Canberra and fastโ€‘tracking reforms. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has opened a compliance investigation, and Optus has appointed Kerry Schott to lead an independent technical review into the failures. The reforms build on proposals flagged after the nationwide Optus outage in November 2023 and signal a shift from afterโ€‘theโ€‘fact reporting to proactive assurance for a service that must be available under extreme conditions.
A sprawling social engineering campaign tied to the Lapsus$/Scattered Spider/ShinyHunters ecosystem is extorting enterprises after allegedly siphoning close to a billion records from Salesforce customer environments. Attackers claim broad theft of personally identifiable information from organizations that use Salesforce, while the vendor states its core platform and code were not breached. Evidence points to identity-led social engineering, followed by misuse of sanctioned tools and APIs to quietly extract large data volumes. For telecom and enterprise IT, CRM data now sits on the front line of extortion economics, raising urgent questions about identity controls, SaaS hardening, and third-party risk.
The AI value gap is wideningโ€”and itโ€™s now a strategy problem, not a tooling problem. Fresh research shows a small cohort of โ€œfuture-builtโ€ companies converting AI into material P&L impact while most firms lag despite sizable spend. BCGโ€™s 2025 assessment of 1,250 senior executives finds only 5% of companies have the capabilities to consistently generate outsized AI value, with 35% scaling and beginning to see benefits, and a full 60% reporting little to no financial impact to date.
OpenAI is reportedly preparing a standalone app for its next-gen video model, positioning AI-only short video as a consumer format in its own right. The app reportedly delivers a vertical feed with swipe navigation, reactions, and remixing familiar mechanics that lower friction for discovery and creation. Every clip is generated by Sora 2 rather than uploaded, with current limits around 10 seconds per video. A recommendation engine powers a personalized โ€œFor Youโ€ experience, aligning with how short-form attention is won and retained today. A notable feature is identity verification tied to likeness usage. Expect provenance signals and watermarking frameworks (for example, C2PA-style manifests) to become table stakes for platforms that remix human likeness at scale.
The Bethpage Black Ryder Cup turned a 1,500โ€‘acre golf course into a pop-up smart city, giving HPE a high-stakes stage to showcase end-to-end AI, networking, and edge operations at scale. Golf is a network plannerโ€™s stress test: fans are constantly moving, crowd density swings hole-to-hole, and the venue is built from scratch for a few intense days. More than 250,000 spectators demanded seamless connectivity, broadcast-grade reliability, and instant digital services. This environment forced an enterprise-grade blueprint – fast deployment, elastic capacity, airtight security, and automated operations, mirroring the requirements of modern campuses, arenas, and industrial sites.
Indiaโ€™s nationwide launch of BSNLโ€™s โ€œSwadeshiโ€ 4G stack moves the country from a services-first model to domestic production of core telecom equipment at national scale. India formally launched an indigenous 4G stack for state-run BSNL, alongside more than 97,500 towers announced from Jharsuguda, Odisha. Officials highlighted early reach metrics, noting that roughly 92,000 sites are active and connecting an estimated 22 million users. Telecom equipment sovereignty has become a board-level issue as operators de-risk supply chains, comply with trusted source mandates, and balance costs amid rising traffic and spectrum refarming needs.
AI is everywhere in telecom, yet most pilots never make it into production because the industryโ€™s data, tooling, and operating models are not ready for scaled automation. Recent industry research suggests that about 95% of AI pilots in telecom fail to scale beyond proofs of concept. Leaders are moving from pilots to platforms by embedding AI in the systems that run the business and anchoring every initiative to measurable outcomes. Telecom AI will not scale through pilots alone; it scales when embedded in the systems that run revenue, experience, and networks.
Two narratives are converging: Silicon Valleyโ€™s rush to add gigawatts of AI capacity and a quiet revival of bunkers, mines, and mountains as ultra-resilient data hubs. Recent headlines point to unprecedented AI infrastructure spending tied to OpenAI. The draw is physical security, thermal stability, data sovereignty, and a narrative of longevity in an era where outages and cyberโ€‘physical risks are rising. Geopolitics, regulation, and escalating outage impact are reshaping site selection and architectural choices. The AI buildโ€‘out collides with grid interconnection queues, water scarcity, and rising scrutiny of carbon and noise. Set hard thresholds on PUE and WUE; require realโ€‘time telemetry and thirdโ€‘party assurance.
Hitachi has launched a global AI Factory built on NVIDIAโ€™s reference architecture to speed the development and deployment of โ€œphysical AIโ€ spanning mobility, energy, industrial, and technology domains. Hitachi is standardizing a centralized yet globally distributed AI infrastructure on NVIDIAโ€™s full-stack platform, pairing Hitachi iQ systems with NVIDIA HGX B200 platforms powered by Blackwell GPUs, Hitachi iQ M Series with NVIDIA RTX 6000 Server Edition GPUs, and the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet AI networking platform. The environment is designed to run production AI with NVIDIA AI Enterprise and support simulation and physically accurate digital twins using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries.
In 2024, the U.S. cable sector generated $568.7 billion in total economic output and supported 1.3 million jobs across the country. This footprint spans broadband networks, video programming, construction, manufacturing, and a broad vendor ecosystem. It underscores why cable remains a central pillar of Americaโ€™s connectivity and media economy even as consumption shifts to IP and streaming. Cable broadband providersโ€”led by Comcast, Charter Communications (Spectrum), Cox, Altice USA (Optimum), Mediacom, Cable One (Sparklight), and WOW!โ€”accounted for $366 billion in total economic impact and nearly 888,000 jobs.
Databricks is adding OpenAIโ€™s newest foundation models to its catalog for use via SQL or API, alongside previously introduced open-weight options gpt-oss 20B and 120B. Customers can now select, benchmark, and fine-tune OpenAI models directly where governed enterprise data already lives. The move raises the stakes in the race to make generative AI a first-class, governed workload inside data platforms rather than an external service tethered by integration and compliance gaps. For telecom and enterprise IT, it reduces friction for AI agents that must safely traverse customer, network, and operational data domains.
Canberra is signaling an industry shake-up after hundreds of emergency calls failed to reach Triple Zero, with four incidents linked to fatalities. Optus, Australiaโ€™s second-largest operator and a subsidiary of Singtel, reported a technical failure that prevented 624 calls from connecting to emergency services (000), affecting customers across Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, and the Northern Territory. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has opened an investigation into compliance with the Emergency Call Service rules, which require carriers to ensure 000/112 calls connect regardless of network status.

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