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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The European Union’s investment bank is to support the company building a new network for the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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AzerTelecom and Kazakhtelecom, the incumbent telcos of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, have signed a cooperation agreement on the Trans-Caspian project.
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EdgeConneX is to connect its data centre located in Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona to AFR-IX Barcelona Cable Landing Station (Barcelona CLS).
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etisalat by e& confirms the first commercial deployment of its 5G standalone (SA) network in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to Yonit Goldberg, co-founder of 11Stream, about the opportunities in the Middle East’s telecoms market.
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Axiata Digital Labs (ADL) is to collaborate with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide its digital telco services to AWS customers.
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Arelion has expanded its partnership with United Cable Company (UCC), a master agent in subsea and terrestrial infrastructure.
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AtlasEdge has completed its acquisition of Datacenter One, a deal that brings more than 140 customers for its four data centres.
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Veon confirms that Banglalink, its digital operator in Bangladesh, has signed a tri-party agreement with Teletalk and Summit Towers on sharing telecom infrastructure.
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iBASIS and Sequans Communications have been selected by Actility to deploy programmable mobile IoT solutions with eSIM and iSIM.
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The merger between True Corporation and Total Access Communication – AKA Dtac has been completed according to Dtac’s majority owner Telenor.
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Digital Realty has extended its partnership with Options Technology, a capital markets services provider.
