China Telecom open-sources Xing4.0-29B-A4B, a 29B MoE model that activates just 4B parameters for long-horizon agents.📜 Apache 2.0. 🤖 📄 📄 🏆 Leads both comparison models on Claw-Eval, Terminal-Bench 2.1, and DeepresearchBII, while reaching 75.0 on SWE-bench Verified. 🧠 mHC + MLA + MTP supports multi-step planning, tool use, and stable execution across 256K context, expandable to 512K. ⚡ End-to-end training on domestic computing infrastructure, with system optimizations boosting throughput by about 96%. 🛠️ Supports major training, inference, and Agent frameworks, plus cross-architecture deployment and lightweight adaptation for private-domain tasks.

SK TELECOM TO CREATE AI DATA-CENTER COMPANY $KKR and a consortium of South Korean firms are investing $2.2 billion in an AI data-center company being created by telecommunications firm SK Telecom through a spinoff - WSJ

Indian telecom Reliance is sabotaging access to Telegram for millions of users OUTSIDE India (including the UAE) via a rogue method called BGP hijacking. The sabotage seems intentional, as Reliance has ignored multiple reports. This may be part of a competitive war, as Reliance is partially owned by Meta — the company behind WhatsApp. Network operators are advised to reject unauthorized BGP announcements from Reliance (AS18101) to prevent route hijacks and ensure stable Internet access for their users. Such abuse of global Internet routing is alarming. I wouldn’t be surprised if Reliance/WhatsApp were also behind the recent lobbying effort to ban Telegram in India.

Shanghai Telecom revealed what AI monetization can look like. Not subscriptions. Not chat apps. Utilities. They launched a Token package: • unified access to 30+ models • pay via your phone bill • AI usage bundled like data plans AI is moving from “an app you open” to “a line item already embedded in your monthly bill.”

The International Alliance Combating Telecom and Cyber Fraud initiated by the Chinese government was officially launched on Thursday in Lianyungang, #Jiangsu# province, bringing together representatives from 46 founding countries, 34 observer countries, and four international organizations.