Week of February 5–10, 2024Telecom Intelligence: Week of February 5, 2024
The FCC declared AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal — a unanimous ruling issued weeks after a fake President Biden told New Hampshire voters to stay home, making voice cloning the first AI harm to draw a federal enforcement rule. Google collapsed its confusing AI branding into one name, Gemini, and started charging $19.99 a month for its best model inside a rebranded app. And Arm's shares rocketed nearly 50% on earnings, as investors decided the chip architecture inside virtually every smartphone is also the quiet royalty collector of the AI buildout.