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CelcomDigi Berhad is bringing agentic AI to Malaysian businesses with the commercialisation of Sophia AI. The AI-powered digital workforce is designed to help enterprises and SMEs move beyond using AI as an assistant and advance towards agentic AI solutions that can execute tasks, connect systems, and orchestrate business processes. The commercialisation of Sophia AI comes as Malaysia steps up efforts to broaden access to AI and build an AI-ready economy.

MobileX, the most customizable wireless service designed to save consumers money, announced a strategic investment from CONX (CONX). This investment gives CONX a controlling interest in MobileX and injects new capital to accelerate the company's next phase of growth. As part of the agreement, EchoStar Founder, CEO, and Chairman, as well as CONX Chairman Charlie Ergen and CONX CEO Jason Kiser will join the MobileX Board of Directors.

The satellite industry has spent the last two years telling a story about hikers and dead zones — the idea that one day your phone will work in the Grand Canyon or in the middle of Death Valley. That story is real, and it is coming. But the first substantial returns on satellite connectivity are already here, and almost nobody is paying attention to them, because they have nothing to do with your phone.

Prior to the availability of modern automotive services, automotive connectivity was approached primarily as a telecommunications purchase: select a mobile operator, embed a SIM and negotiate an acceptable data price. That model was adequate when connectivity supported a limited number of functions, but with the rise of next-generation connectivity solutions, global OEMs need to reevaluate the connectivity backbone that supports the latest automotive features.

New research from Omdia finds that satellite Internet of Things (IoT) satellite IoT is entering a period of rapid expansion, with connections projected to grow from 7.7 million in 2023 to 197.7 million by 2035, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31%.

Quintessent, an innovator in resilient and low-cost AI datacenter optical interconnect products, announced it has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series A investment round. Quintessent also announced the start of customer sampling of its single-chip quantum dot-based DWDM comb laser – a new class of light source designed to simplify optical connectivity for rapidly scaling AI clusters.

The Board of Directors of Team Telecom Armenia has appointed Aram Barseghyan as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective August 24. As Team Group continues to expand, diversify its business, grow its international presence and launch new strategic projects, the Group is entering its next stage of development. Hayk Yesayan will continue his work as Head of Team Group, focusing on the Group’s strategic development and expansion, as well as its long-term growth priorities.

NVIDIA announced that SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs to accelerate its next generation of agentic AI applications, bringing the first CPU built for AI agents to one of the world’s most ambitious AI deployments. Agentic AI applications increasingly rely on CPUs to orchestrate tools, execute code, process data and run simulations between model calls. SpaceXAI will use Vera to accelerate these application workloads, helping AI agents act faster while keeping GPUs fed and fully utilized.

Rakuten Mobile, along with six other leading Japanese telecommunications and technology companies, announced that the framework of low-latency and energy-efficient networks to support the AI era has been approved as an international standard by the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) on August 13, 2026.

Mitesco announced how improvements in the energy and operating efficiency of artificial intelligence computing could create a longer-term path from distributed edge computing into the connected home. Through its Centcore subsidiary, Mitesco is developing its compact edge computing data center “node” (“TC/DC”) concept as a distributed computing node designed to move AI processing closer to where applications and users operate.