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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Atlas Space Operations, a provider of Ground Software as-a-Service (GSaaS), has formed a new partnership with Viasat Real-Time Earth (RTE).
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Brands such as BAI Communications and ZenFi Networks are set to disappear in a rebranding exercise.
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Bill Barney, former CEO of Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) has been appointed to the board of IXAfrica.
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Sipartech confirms the availability of 400G+ spectrum and wavelengths across its network, at the same time as deploying new long-haul routes in Europe.
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DE-CIX is to set up an internet exchange company in Pakistan, the company announced at this week’s Capacity Middle East event.
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Athalos has teamed with a wave of partners to provide a single global telephone number for building advocacy and donor engagement for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Pakistan.
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French company Altice now owns 50% of Vodafone’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) company in Germany.
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For our first episode of the C-Suite Hotseat, Saf Malik is joined by Ana Nakashidze, CEO of AzerTelecom.
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China Mobile International (CMI) confirms the successful launch of its Oman Muscat MC1 point of presence (PoP) at the Equinix MC1 data centre in Barka.
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wingu.africa is operating in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Somaliland delivering its carrier-neutral data centre facilities.
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Globe Teleservices has unveiled its Cloud Connect solution that provides multiple avenues for active consumer engagement.
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Blue Wireless, a global provider of LTE/5G wireless network solutions, has entered into an agreement to join the Wireless Logic Group of companies.
