Month: August 2026

The Telco That Just Bet Its Future on OpenAI. And Why That Changes Everything.

The Telco That Bet Its Future on OpenAI Let me start with the one that actually made me sit up straighter. On August 12, Malaysian mobile operator U Mobile announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI—the company’s first telecommunications partnership in Malaysia. Here’s why this matters. U Mobile isn’t just buying API access. They’re embedding OpenAI’s frontier models across internal process automation,… Read more →

The AI That Never Forgets, The Chip That Cuts Cloud Costs to Zero, and Why Your Bank Is Betting $2 Billion on AI

SK Telecom’s AI That Never Forgets Let me start with the one that actually made me sit up straighter. On August 4, SK Telecom (South Korea’s largest wireless mobile carrier) released A.X K2, a 688-billion-parameter AI model that shifts from reactive to proactive AI. Here’s why this matters. Most AI answers questions. A.X K2 plans and executes tasks on its own. It can handle… Read more →

AI Aced the World’s Hardest Math Test. And That Wasn’t Even the Biggest News

The AI That Scored 100% on the World’s Hardest Math Exam Let me start with the one that actually made me sit up straighter. On July 23, two Chinese tech companies, Huawei and Xiaohongshu, announced their AI models each achieved a perfect score on this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad. For context: 666 contestants from around the world took part. Only seven humans… Read more →