Viettel Telecom aims to become a leading technology company
The 6th Viettel Telecom Party Congress has just concluded after two working days (July 24-25). In the period of 2025-2030, Viettel Telecom aims to transform itself into a leading technology company in Vietnam.
During the 2020-2025 term, Viettel Telecom has achieved many successes. The company maintains its No. 1 position in the mobile market while leading the fixed broadband sector, and is a pioneer in commercializing new technologies such as 5G, IoT, and digital services.
Viettel Telecom General Director, Senior Lieutenant Colonel Hoang Trung Thanh, speaking at the conference. (Source: Viettel Telecom)
Viettel Telecom Party Committee has continuously achieved the title of clean and strong, contributing to improving the quality of life of staff and promoting social security.
In the period of 2025 - 2030, the company aims to transform into a technology enterprise, popularize 5G network to more than 90% of the population, convert 70% of mobile subscribers into 5G subscribers, strongly develop Gigabit optical network infrastructure to >70% of households, and lead Vietnam in AI-based customer experience (AX).
In 2025, the company will complete the deployment of 20,000 5G broadcasting stations.
The 6th Congress marked a strong transformation, reinforcing Viettel Telecom's aspiration to become a Vietnamese technology enterprise of global stature.
Swiss Startup Launches AI Weather Model That Outperforms Microsoft and Google
In a bold technological move, Swiss startup Jua has just introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) model called EPT-2, which is considered the most accurate weather forecasting system today – surpassing even big names like Microsoft and Google.
According to the recently released report, EPT-2 has beaten leading models such as Microsoft Aurora, ENS and IFS HRES (part of the European Centre for Weather Forecasts ECMWF) on important indicators:
- 10 meter wind speed and 2 meter air temperature in 10 day forecast – most accurate of any system.
- 25% faster forecast processing time than Aurora.
- Uses 75% less computing power, resulting in significant savings in operating costs.
AI is becoming a powerful tool in weather forecasting. (Illustration: Getty Images)
Instead of patching AI into a traditional platform like many of its competitors, Jua chose to develop a physics simulation model from scratch, helping the system understand “how the Earth’s atmosphere actually behaves.” This means Jua doesn’t need a multibillion-dollar supercomputer to run the complex physics equations that traditional systems do.
Jua has raised $27 million from investors including 468 Capital, Future Energy Ventures and Promus Ventures. The detailed research will be published next week on the academic repository arXiv – promising to change the way the world predicts the weather.
Amid the growing demand for accurate, fast, and cost-effective weather forecasting, Jua is emerging as a potential player on the global meteorological technology map.
AI Traffic to Top Websites Increases Nearly 5X
Traffic from artificial intelligence (AI) platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude is exploding. According to a report from analytics firm Similarweb, in June 2025 alone, AI platforms generated more than 1.13 billion visits to the world’s top 1,000 websites – up 357% compared to the same period in 2024.
While Google Search still leads with a whopping 191 billion visits, the growth rate of AI is making it impossible for the media and technology world to ignore. In particular, in the news and media sector, the number of visits from AI increased by 770%, as users searched for information through AI assistants instead of traditional search engines.
Top AI-powered traffic by industry. (Source: Similarweb)
A Pew Research Center survey also found that when Google displayed “AI Overviews” in search results, the rate of users clicking on the link dropped to only 8%, down nearly half from 15% without the AI summary.
In the e-commerce sector, Amazon leads with 4.5 million visits from AI, followed by Etsy and eBay. The technology and social media platforms that AI transfers the most traffic to include: Google (53.1M), Reddit, Facebook, Github, Microsoft, Canva, Instagram, LinkedIn, Bing and Pinterest.
ChatGPT – OpenAI’s AI platform – accounts for more than 80% of all AI traffic to top global websites, far surpassing competitors such as Claude, Gemini, Grok or Perplexity.
The AI wave is clearly changing the way users access information, and businesses and publishers must adapt if they don't want to be left behind in the era of intelligent search.
Intel cuts staff and costs to restructure operations
Intel is embarking on a major restructuring to regain its footing in the chip industry after falling behind rivals like Nvidia and AMD. The company will reduce its “core” workforce to 75,000 by the end of the year, down from 99,500 last year, according to new CEO Lip-Bu Tan.
Logo of Intel technology company in the US. (Source: Intel)
Intel recently canceled projects in Germany and Poland, and moved assembly and testing operations from Costa Rica to Vietnam and Malaysia. At the same time, the company also delayed the construction of a chip factory in Ohio (USA) to save costs. Intel will focus on its core product portfolio and solutions related to artificial intelligence, with a commitment to "no more unconditional investments".
Intel's latest quarter was still poor, with the company reporting a loss of $2.9 billion, up from a loss of $1.6 billion in the same period last year.
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