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IndiaAI tender to add 12,000–15,000 Nvidia GPUs in the anvil
10+ hour, 27+ min ago (183+ words) IndiaAI tender to add 12,00015,000 Nvidia GPUs in the anvil'Communications Today The government is preparing a fresh IndiaAI Mission tender for about 12,00015,000 additional Nvidia GPUs, mainly from the new Blackwell'based B100 and B200 lines, to sharply expand subsidised national AI compute capacity. This…...
Intel stuns CES 2026 crowd with 42,000-brick LEGO art installation
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (467+ words) The mockup of an actual Intel" Core" Ultra Series 3 (code-named Panther Lake) chip even lights up, thanks to 600+ LEDs and complicated circuitry hidden within its LEGO tiles " mimicking the way a real-life Series 3 processor functions. Since its big reveal on…...
UK urges Musk’s X to urgently address intimate ‘deepfakes’ by Grok
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (350+ words) Britain on Tuesday urged Elon Musk's X platform to urgently address a proliferation of intimate "deepfake' images created on demand via its built-in AI chatbot Grok, joining a European outcry over a surge in non-consensual imagery on the platform. The…...
SK Telecom unveils A.X K1, Korea’s first 500B-scale hyperscale AI model
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (594+ words) SK Telecom has unveiled "A.X K1," Korea"s first hyperscale artificial intelligence (AI) model with 519 billion (519B) parameters. A.X K1 (519B-A33B) is poised to serve as the core foundation for Korea"s ambition to become a top-three global player in the AI race, following…...
Test and measurement for validating performance and compliance of post-quantum-secure systems
1+ week, 1+ day ago (322+ words) NIST is leading the way in defining PQC algorithms and industry alliances are forming with the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance (PQCA), and the Post-Quantum Telco Network Task Force (PQTN) being notable examples with wide-scale backing. GSMA provides guidelines for PQC and…...
Kaspersky says telecoms-related threats to persist in 2026
1+ week, 3+ day ago (236+ words) Kaspersky says telecoms-related threats to persist in 2026Communications Today Between November 2024 and October 2025, Kaspersky Security Network shows 12.79% of users in the telecommunications sector encountered web threats and 20.76% faced on-device threats. Over the same period, 9.86% of telecom organizations worldwide experienced ransomware. At…...
Transforming India with AI, Rs 10300 cr investment, 38000 GPUs
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1302+ words) Initiatives such as the IndiaAI Mission and the Centres of Excellence for AI are at the heart of this transformation. They are expanding access to computing power, supporting research, and helping startups and institutions create solutions that directly benefit people....
India targets 10% share of global 6G patents
1+ week, 4+ day ago (254+ words) India is positioning itself to take a leadership role in the global 6G race, with the government aiming to secure a 10% share of worldwide patents in the next generation of telecom technology, Union Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said. Speaking on India's…...
Bluebird Block-2 satellite expected to commence operations in coming weeks
1+ week, 4+ day ago (237+ words) The Bluebird Block-2 satellite, which was successfully deployed by ISRO's Bahubali rocket LVM3-M6 on December 24 is set to commence operations in the coming weeks. The next-generation communication satellite, developed by US-based AST SpaceMobile, became the first spacecraft to be launched from…...
AI in 2026 — From ubiquitous experiments to a sharp GenAI divide
1+ week, 5+ day ago (459+ words) AI in 2026 " From ubiquitous experiments to a sharp GenAI divide'Communications Today With 2025 having laid the groundwork for more systematic AI adoption, 2026 is shaping up as the year when a discernible architecture of use'cases, governance norms and operating models starts to…...