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Verizon, Ericsson target enterprises with private 5G

Ericsson highlighted its private 5G service is now available through Verizon Business beyond US borders, giving multinational enterprises the ability to extend connectivity and boost digital transformation opportunities.

The Swedish vendor explained the expansion means global enterprises already running Ericsson technology in Verizon Business Private 5G Networks in the US can now replicate those capabilities across their operations worldwide.

As AI drives greater demand for secure, high-speed and low-latency connectivity, the collaboration is designed to offer enterprises more flexibility as they scale internationally.

Hannes Ekstrom, SVP and Head of Customer Unit Verizon at Ericsson Americas, said the vendor’s multinational customers in the US had already unlocked significant growth through 5G-enabled private networks and are now looking to extend those capabilities globally.

“By simplifying 5G adoption and enhancing reliability, low latency, and security, we are empowering industries to harness next-generation connectivity and drive innovation on a global scale,” he stated.

The Ericsson Private 5G platform operates as a dual mode 4G and 5G network with global spectrum support, built to connect in challenging indoor and outdoor environments.

It is designed to deliver ultra-low latency and high reliability for real-time applications including automated manufacturing, industrial IoT and AI-driven analytics, while keeping sensitive data within the enterprise’s private network to support compliance requirements.

Industries including manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, energy and higher education are among those expected to benefit from the international rollout, with use cases spanning smart factories, warehouse automation, remote diagnostics and AI-powered research infrastructure.

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Nvidia targets China with Vera CPU push

Nvidia reportedly told Chinese customers its new Vera CPU for AI data centres could be available in August, in a move to regain ground in a market where its advanced GPU business has been stalled by US export curbs.

Reuters reported the chipmaker is pitching Vera as an alternative route into China after shipments of its H200 AI chip stalled for months. CEO Jensen Huang (pictured) previously said Nvidia’s market share in China had effectively fallen to zero, reflecting tighter US restrictions and Beijing’s push to support domestic suppliers.

The news site noted Vera is Nvidia’s first standalone CPU for agentic AI workloads, with the company claiming it delivers up to 1.8 times the performance of rival processors.

Huang unveiled Vera in March as part of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin architecture and cast the CPU as a major new growth engine, as the company looks to expand beyond GPUs and into the server processor market.

Sources told Reuters one major Chinese cloud provider is planning to order more than 300 servers containing two Vera CPUs each for testing, with the chips set to be deployed first in overseas data centres before any wider commitment.

The move also sharpens Nvidia’s challenge to Intel and AMD, which dominate the server CPU market.

Because Vera is based on Arm architecture rather than x86, Nvidia is entering the segment as AI infrastructure demand shifts further toward inference and agentic computing, where CPUs are becoming increasingly important alongside accelerators.

Reuters added selling CPUs into China may prove easier for Nvidia than shipping high-end GPUs, which remain subject to stricter US controls.

Broader adoption, however, is likely to hinge on software compatibility and the willingness of Chinese operators to move workloads away from domestic AI silicon.

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SpaceX shifts Colossus 1 capacity to Anthropic after Grok setback

SpaceX reportedly leased the full capacity of its Colossus 1 data centre to Anthropic after running into technical problems using the site for its own Grok AI workloads.

Bloomberg reported last week (12 June) the company planned to use Colossus 1, located in the US state of Tennessee, as part of a three-campus cluster to train its more advanced AI models, but latency issues emerged when the facility was linked with two other sites more than 10 miles away

Sources told the news site the problems were said to be worsened by older network infrastructure.

Bloomberg noted high-performance AI training depends on fast, low-latency links between compute sites, but bottlenecks can slow the wider cluster.

Rather than continue trying to resolve those constraints, SpaceX decided leasing the site to third parties would generate greater value and create an additional revenue stream.

The move comes as SpaceX pushes its data centre expansion as a key plank of its investor story following its acquisition of xAI earlier this year.

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US orders Anthropic to suspend Fable 5, Mythos 5 models

Anthropic was directed by the Trump administration to immediately suspend all access to its two most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns.

The directive issued on 12 June ordered the AI lab to disable both models for all customers globally, including foreign national Anthropic employees, whether inside or outside the US.

The Trump administration’s letter to Anthropic targeted foreign nationals, but because ensuring compliance would require verifying the nationality of every user, it shut both models down entirely for all customers, Anthropic stated in a blog.

The letter did not specify the nature of its national security concern, but Anthropic said its understanding is goverment officials believe a method of bypassing the model’s safeguards through jailbreaking has been identified.

The AI player stated it reviewed a demonstration of the technique and found it exposed only a small number of previously known minor vulnerabilities, all of which can be replicated using other publicly available AI models without any bypass required.

Anthropic pushed back on the administration’s justification for the suspension. The company noted in the weeks building up to Fable 5’s launch, it worked extensively with the US government, the UK AI Safety Institute and multiple private organisations.

Those tests, Anthropic said, showed Fable 5’s protections were substantially stronger than any previously deployed model. No tester has yet found a universal jailbreak capable of broadly bypassing the model’s defences, according to Anthropic.

It did acknowledge perfect jailbreak resistance is not currently achievable for any AI model provider and stated it disclosed this limitation publicly at launch.

Anthropic adopted what it describes as a defence in depth strategy, combining narrow jailbreak resistance with thorough monitoring and a 30-day customer data retention policy specifically designed to detect and shut down successful attacks.

Amazon angle
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported the directive followed conversations between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and US officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, after the retail giant’s researchers used a series of prompts to extract information from Fable 5 which were restricted.

Anthropic said it is complying with the legal order but disagrees the narrow potential jailbreak warrants recalling a model deployed to hundreds of millions of users. The company warned that applying this standard across the industry would effectively halt all new frontier model deployments.

Forbes reported some customers are seeking refunds from Anthropic for the disabling of Fable 5, citing a post on Reddit from the company which offers a prorated refund.

Anthropic apologised for the disruption, describing the situation as a misunderstanding, and said it is working to restore access as soon as possible.

AI policy shifts
Kevin Frazier, adjunct research fellow at the Cato Institute, said the episode exposes a deeper structural problem. The decision, he said, based on questionable justifications and made by actors subject to few effective constraints, strengthens the case for Congress to pass a transparent and technically grounded AI governance framework.

“Transparency, fairness, clarity, and evidence-driven enforcement should be core components of AI governance,” he said. “So long as AI policy decisions are driven by a few actors taking action behind closed doors in response to non-public reports, we will be far short of that standard.”

The Trump administration previously took a hands-off approach to AI regulations to spur development and stay ahead of China.

Earlier this month, Trump signed an executive order directing pre-deployment testing of frontier AI models, but the order was voluntary and did not create a licensing requirement.

In March 2026, the administration released its national AI legislative framework, a move aimed to create uniform security and safety guardrails while also attempting to pre-empt states from enacting their own rules.

Anthropic is currently on a Department of War blacklist designating the company as supply chain risk and barring it from government use. A federal judge blocked the order for the federal government to cut all contracts with Anthropic. The legal battle is ongoing.

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