Ericsson to Restructure Operations, Two Execs to Depart

A general view of an office of Swedish telecom giant Ericsson. Reuters file photo
A general view of an office of Swedish telecom giant Ericsson. Reuters file photo
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Ericsson to Restructure Operations, Two Execs to Depart

A general view of an office of Swedish telecom giant Ericsson. Reuters file photo
A general view of an office of Swedish telecom giant Ericsson. Reuters file photo

Sweden's Ericsson on Wednesday laid out plans to restructure its operating units to focus on mobile infrastructure and business customers, and announced that two senior executives will leave the company.

A new business unit was created by merging digital services and managed services to increase its cloud expertise and build products for automation and artificial intelligence.

The unit will be led by Per Narvinger, who joined Ericsson in 1997, Reuters reported.

A new unit for enterprise wireless business, to be led by Cradlepoint CEO George Mulhern, will develop 5G-related products to meet the needs of big businesses.

Ericsson executives, Arun Bansal, currently executive vice president, and Peter Laurin, head of business area managed services, will leave the company.

The new organization will take effect June 1.



OpenAI Says It Will Work with US Government to Protect Technology 

The OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024. (Reuters) 
The OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024. (Reuters) 
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OpenAI Says It Will Work with US Government to Protect Technology 

The OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024. (Reuters) 
The OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024. (Reuters) 

ChatGPT creator OpenAI said on Tuesday said that Chinese firms are "constantly" trying to tap into US rivals to improve Chinese artificial intelligence models.

"As the leading builder of AI, we engage in countermeasures to protect our IP, including a careful process for which frontier capabilities to include in released models, and believe as we go forward that it is critically important that we are working closely with the US government to best protect the most capable models from efforts by adversaries and competitors to take US technology,” OpenAI said in a statement.

OpenAI made the comments after the White House said it was evaluating possible national security concerns raised by China's DeepSeek.

David Sacks, the White House's AI and crypto czar, said an AI technique call "distillation" can be used by Chinese firms to learn from US AI leaders.