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Google has introduced a sharply priced AI Plus subscription in India to push generative AI into the mass market and counter OpenAI’s ChatGPT Go. The AI Plus plan launches at ₹199 per month for new users for six months, then moves to ₹399 per month. The bundle raises usage limits
Paramount Skydance launched a hostile, board-bypassing tender offer to acquire all of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) at $30 per share, valuing the company at about $108 billion on an enterprise basis. The bid arrives days after WBD agreed to sell its studio and streaming assets—including Warner Bros. studios, HBO, and
Disney will invest $1 billion in OpenAI and become Sora’s first major content licensing partner, enabling fans to generate and share short videos that feature more than 200 characters and environments from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars. The agreement spans three years, excludes actor likenesses and voices, and extends
IBM has agreed to acquire Confluent for $31 per share in cash, signaling a decisive move to make real-time, governed data the backbone of generative and agentic AI across hybrid cloud environments. The transaction values Confluent at an enterprise value of roughly $11 billion, with closing targeted by mid-2026 pending
A strategic merger to accelerate standardized 5G NTN Cobham Satcom is merging its Network Division with Gatehouse Satcom to push 3GPP-based non-terrestrial networks from trials to scalable deployments. The combined entity will sit as a subsidiary within Cobham Satcom Group, led by Kenney Schmidt Christiansen, Gatehouse Satcom’s current CEO. Cobham
A potential take‑private of DigitalBridge by SoftBank would concentrate capital, power, and build capability at the precise chokepoints of the AI and telecom stack. The center of gravity in AI infrastructure has moved from buildings and GPUs to grid access, entitlements, and construction lead time. DigitalBridge controls rights to roughly
Versant’s lineup spans USA Network, CNBC, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel, plus Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass and SportsEngine. Management argues the reach of up to ~65 million households and a 62% live programming mix gives it durable leverage in news and sports while it
India’s Department of Telecommunications has ordered major messaging apps to implement continuous SIM binding and frequent web re-authentication to curb fraud, with compliance expected in early 2026. The directive applies to app-based communication platforms that use mobile numbers as identifiers, including WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, ShareChat, JioChat, Josh, and regional
Vodafone is accelerating a multi-year resilience programme to keep emergency and critical services online during grid failures, an issue that is moving from rare-event planning to board-level risk management. In response, Vodafone fast-tracked its Enhanced Power initiative to harden more than 10,000 critical mobile access sites across Europe over the
Two German heavyweights are in advanced discussions to co-build large-scale AI data centre capacity in Germany, a move that would tap European Union funding and accelerate sovereign AI infrastructure. Deutsche Telekom and the Schwarz Group are exploring a joint bid to develop EU-supported “AI Gigafactory” facilities, data centres purpose-built for
Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems has secured a multi-million-euro contract from Leibniz University Hannover to power SOOFI, a flagship initiative to build a 100-billion-parameter, European-operated large language model. The SOOFI (Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models) project will train a next-generation, open-source LLM focused on European languages and industrial requirements, replacing the current
Airbus Defence and Space has introduced Agnet Direct, a multi-mode extension to its 3GPP-based Agnet portfolio that keeps teams connected when commercial or private 4G/5G coverage is compromised. Agnet Direct has been validated within France’s Réseau Radio du Futur (RRF), the nationwide secure broadband network for domestic security and emergency
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