AI
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Open source has been a driving factor behind the ever-continuing rise in AI. From the early days of OpenAI (before it closed its doors) and Meta’s ever-growing herd of llamas, open source AI has powered tools and technologies used by industries all over the world.
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Meta has partnered with Lumen Technologies to “significantly increase” its network capacity to meet the increased demand for its AI models and services.
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Tech Mahindra has opened a Centre of Excellence (CoE) powered by Nvidia AI Enterprise and Omniverse platforms.
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Latin American data centre operator ODATA unveiled plans to construct two facilities in Colombia to provide 144MW of connectivity to the region.
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Nokia has partnered with Lenovo to offer data centre solutions designed to meet increasing demand for AI workloads.
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Oriole Networks, a startup developing photonic networking technologies, has secured $22 million in funding to address the growing data centre demands driven by AI workloads.
Forthcoming events
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Wholesale veteran Juan Carlos Bernal has left his role as chief commercial officer (CCO) of Telefónica Global Solutions and as member of the ITW Global Leaders Forum.
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Airtel Tanzania has sold 1,400 towers in the country to a joint venture comprising Paradigm Infrastructure Limited and SBA Communications Corporation.
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A coalition of organisations in Mexico are preparing legal action against the government in response to its plans for a national database of mobile users.
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The Datacloud Global Awards took place on 1 June, with more than 20 winners across a wide range of categories.
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German cloud and IT services firm q.beyond is considering the sale of its colocation business, which includes three wholly-owned data centres.
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Cloud data analytics services firm Cloudera is being bought for $5.3 billion and going private.
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EdgeX is capitalising on the growth of edge, while giving a new lease of life to the corporate world’s divested assets. Melanie Mingas gets the details from John Parsons
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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Canada’s regulator ruled against lowering wholesale access prices for smaller businesses.
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Telenor Group has spun its Nordic tower assets into a new business and appointed the CEO of Telenor Sweden to take the reins.
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UKCloud, the UK public sector cloud services firm, is now on a recruitment drive for more staff as it boosts the capacity of its data centres.
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Apple has officially opened its first Chinese data centre, in the south western province of Guizhou, reports state press agency Xinhua.
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Dave Temkin, who built and scaled the Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Netflix, has joined cybersecurity firm Imperva, Inc.