Week of January 22–27, 2024Telecom Intelligence: Week of January 22, 2024
On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, thousands of Democrats answered their phones and heard Joe Biden's voice telling them not to vote — except it wasn't Biden. It was an AI clone, commissioned for a few hundred dollars and blasted through the phone network, and it turned AI election interference from a think-tank hypothetical into a documented American event. Two days later Microsoft became the second company in history to close above $3 trillion, powered by the AI narrative now carrying the entire market. And Netflix reported its best subscriber quarter since the pandemic — 13.1 million adds — proving the password-sharing crackdown and ad tier had rebuilt streaming's growth engine.