IT industry & companies

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1. IT industry & companies · Networking

   Verizon and AT&T keep cutting jobs

   Verizon reportedly laid off about 50 employees per day for 92 consecutive days. AT&T is also carrying out layoffs.

   Full story at PhoneArena ↗
2. Artificial intelligence · IT industry & companies · IT law & regulation

   OpenAI plans a lobbying push after the US midterms

   OpenAI is preparing a political lobbying and PR campaign for after the US midterms. The text gives no further details.

   Full story at The Decoder ↗
3. Chips & hardware · IT industry & companies

   Intel stock has its worst day since 1974

   Intel had its worst one-day stock performance since 1974, a day after shares reached just over $92. The US government invested $8.9 billion in the chipmaker in August 2025.

   Full story at Futurism ↗
4. Artificial intelligence · New AI models · IT industry & companies · Open source

   Stability AI gets new funding and a new CEO

   Stability AI announced significant new investment from an investor group and appointed Prem Akkaraju as CEO. It also announced the open release of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, its image generation model.

   Full story at Stability AI ↗
5. Networking · Cloud & data centers · Artificial intelligence · IT industry & companies

   Lumen and Microsoft expand joint selling of AI networks

   Lumen Technologies and Microsoft announced an expanded co-selling collaboration. It aims to help enterprises connect the data, applications and infrastructure behind AI workloads.

   Full story at news.microsoft.com ↗
6. Cloud & data centers · Networking · IT industry & companies

   Broadcom introduces VMware Cloud Foundation Telco

   VMware Cloud Foundation Telco is a platform for telco infrastructure. Broadcom points to pressure to modernize networks and cut costs, rising hardware costs and AI-driven memory supply issues.

   Full story at blogs.vmware.com ↗

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