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The critical bets on the future of telco value creation

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After a challenging decade, telecom operators may finally be poised to spur a new era of growth. But it will require embracing fundamental change and making strategic moves in four key domains.
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Gaming’s next growth era: Unlocking the value of attention
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The quality of consumer attention that gaming captures is exceptional. Growth in the next era will depend on publishers, platforms,...
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Sovereign AI: Building ecosystems for strategic resilience and impact
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Sovereign AI is achievable only through an ecosystem effort that connects energy, compute, data, models, platforms, and applications...
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Telcos’ AI inflection point: What leaders do to capture value
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Agentic AI offers telcos a potential opportunity to reorient their recent trajectory. The question is whether they can redesign...
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Winning B2B customers in technology and telecommunications
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Our latest B2B Survey of 3,000 decision-makers shows how agentic AI is creating value beyond connectivity, raising the bar on...

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Executive Voices

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Interview
A time to be bold: AWS’s Tanuja Randery on Europe’s AI moment
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Amazon Web Services Managing Director Tanuja Randery discusses the speed of AI adoption in Europe and what it will take to accelerate....
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Interview
Building trust to scale AI: Interview with the CEO of Stack Overflow
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As AI reshapes software development, how can companies build trust and deploy AI at scale? Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar...
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Interview
How AI is shaking up coding: Interview with Sonar CEO Tariq Shaukat
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The role of AI in coding is evolving quickly. Sonar CEO Tariq Shaukat offers his perspective on what’s next for software...
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Interview
Measuring AI in software development: Interview with Jellyfish CEO Andrew Lau
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As AI transforms coding, how will companies ensure it is actually effective? Jellyfish CEO Andrew Lau shares his thoughts on...
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Podcast
Frontier CEO Nick Jeffery: Purpose, strategy, and keeping it simple
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Nick shares his experience leading the fiber giant back from the brink.
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Interview
From reckoning to renewal: An interview with KKR’s Philipp Freise
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Europe’s resilience is being tested. Investor Philipp Freise explains why the continent’s current challenges could...

Tech Trends

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Women in tech and AI in Europe: Can the region close its gender gap?
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The rise of AI could be the turning point that finally unlocks women’s full participation in the tech sector if addressed...
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What AI could mean for film and TV production and the industry’s future
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Industry leaders are questioning how AI could change what content is made and how it is produced. Our research indicates three...
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The next big shifts in AI workloads and hyperscaler strategies
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AI workloads are reshaping data center economics, power planning, and leasing decisions. Their influence is already evident across...

New Capabilities

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Reimagining the value proposition of tech services for agentic AI
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As enterprise customers seek support with agentic AI, tech services providers have a chance to turn a potential threat into an...
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Report - MGI Research
Agents, robots, and us: Skill partnerships in the age of AI
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AI is expanding the productivity frontier. Realizing its benefits requires new skills and rethinking how people work together...
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Unlocking the value of AI in software development
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Many software teams are seeing some impact from AI, but a select group is experiencing more significant gains by rethinking roles,...

New Markets

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AI’s impact on European online classifieds: Greater threat or catalyst?
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The question is less about whether AI will change how users discover classifieds but rather how incumbent providers can shape...
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Technology, media, and telecommunications: Building the future one deal at a time
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Tech, media, and telecom players are revisiting their M&A strategies and reshaping their deal rationales to address significant...
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Outlook on the automotive software and electronics market through 2030
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The automotive software and electronics market is poised for strong growth in the next decade. Our latest market projections...
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Accelerating Europe’s AI adoption: The role of sovereign AI
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By playing to its strengths, the continent could create an AI ecosystem that accelerates adoption, improves global competitiveness,...

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