Companies
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Orange has partnered with OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune their open source AI models to support regional languages in Africa, including Wolof and Pulaar. -
The latest court filings in Elon Musk’s existential AI lawsuit against OpenAI revealed more fascinating insights, including a discussion about potentially acquiring sizable semiconductor firm Cerebras and Musk’s desperation to be CEO.
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MasOrange, Telefónica, and Vodafone Group have teamed up with the i2CAT research centre to launch a multi-operator Open Gateway API lab in Europe.
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is working with GoTo to launch an open source language model designed for local Indonesian languages.
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Engineers at Vodafone are working with AMD to design mobile base stations capable of supporting AI workloads in addition to traditional network operations while using less power.
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Dell has expanded its AI for Telecom offerings, bringing new hardware support and a variety of new use case-focused solutions designed to help operators augment their edge operations using AI.
Forthcoming events
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Globe Telecom (Globe) has received P1.9 billion ($34 million) for the third closing of 160 towers acquired by Miescor Infrastructure Development Corporation (MIDC).
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted TIM a €360 million loan, with a partial SACE guarantee, for the development its 5G network expansion in Italy.
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Roger Adamiak is announced as the new vice president of sales. Broadband provider, Accelecom, believes Adamiak’s appointment will be key to the growth of wholesale and channel partnerships.
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Gamma has introduced a new managed service for the Cisco Meraki SD-WAN solution, augmented by the Highlight Service Assurance platform.
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Bach is tasked with monitoring and managing revenue growth of Broadband provider, LiveOak Fiber, in his new role.
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CBC Tech, a network as-a-Service provider, has formed a partnership with Fortinet, a global cybersecurity provider.
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Dialog Axiata (Dialog), Axiata Group (Axiata) and Bharti Airtel (Airtel) have entered into a binding term sheet to combine their operations in Sri Lanka.
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Pharrowtech has announced its expansion into North America with the creation of its new subsidiary, Pharrowtech Inc.
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Global investment firm, KKR, and CoolIT Systems (CoolIT), a provider of scalable liquid cooling solutions, have signed a definitive agreement under which KKR will acquire CoolIT.
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Eseye, a provider of edge mobile IoT connectivity solutions, has entered into an agreement with Orange Wholesale France to enhance its global IoT connectivity solution offering.
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Global Technical Realty (GTR) has taken a significant step forward with its first UK data centre campus and is preparing to with plans to launch the site before summer 2023.
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Dartpoints, a provider of colocation, cloud and cybersecurity services for edge markets has acquired Louisiana’s Venyu – a data centre infrastructure and cloud services provider.
