Samsung SDS signs OpenAI reseller partnership agreement
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF 05:00

Samsung SDS signs OpenAI reseller partnership agreement

IT services provider Samsung SDS has signed a reseller partner agreement to provide OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise to domestic enterprise customers and provide technical support for the first time as a domestic company. ChatGPT Enterprise provides enterprise-grade security and privacy protection, and can be used at higher speeds. It also provides functions specialised for enterprise use, such as an extended context window that can process longer inputs, advanced data analysis functions, and various customisati

Korea's M.AX Alliance expands AI manufacturing data-sharing push
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF 04:53

Korea's M.AX Alliance expands AI manufacturing data-sharing push

South Korea's ministry of trade, industry and energy has announced an expansion of the M.AX Alliance, a national initiative focused on manufacturing-led AI transformation, including plans to scale data sharing and invest KRW 700 billion in 2026. At the alliance's first general assembly, the ministry said membership had grown from around 1,000 organisations at launch in September 2025 to 1,300 within three months, spanning manufacturers, technology firms, research bodies and service providers.

Ooredoo Qatar offers Darktrace ActiveAI-enabled Security Platform services
QATAR 23 DEC

Ooredoo Qatar offers Darktrace ActiveAI-enabled Security Platform services

Ooredoo Qatar has announced an agreement to offer B2B customers access to the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform. The platform provides an intelligent, autonomous defence layer that continuously learns each organisation's unique digital environment. Capabilities include real-time detection, autonomous response, the Cyber AI Analyst and comprehensive technical support. Thani Ali I A Al-Malki, chief business officer at Ooredoo Qatar, said the partnership with Darktrace strengthens its managed cybersecurity

AWS Bahrain launches Amazon Bedrock in partnership with iGA
BAHRAIN 23 DEC

AWS Bahrain launches Amazon Bedrock in partnership with iGA

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of Amazon Bedrock in Bahrain, in partnership with the country's Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA). IGA CEO Mohamed Ali Al Qaed said the service will offer public and private entities secure, ready-to-use models that support the development of generative AI services. These will help to boost operational efficiency and improve service quality, especially in Arabic, with a high level of accuracy, Al Qaed added.

Halllo, Also, Let's Copilot team up on AI adoption for SMEs
NETHERLANDS 23 DEC

Halllo, Also, Let's Copilot team up on AI adoption for SMEs

ICT services provider Hallo, Also and AI specialist Let's Copilot started a cooperation to support the adoption of Microsoft Copilot Chat in the Netherlands. The initiative targets small and medium-sized businesses with channel activities, gamified training and customer adoption.

NTT supports AI-based remote sports coaching pilot
JAPAN 23 DEC

NTT supports AI-based remote sports coaching pilot

NTT group company NTTSportict has supported the launch of an online handball coaching programme using AI cameras in Ishigaki City, Okinawa, aimed at addressing a shortage of qualified sports instructors on remote islands. The initiative, delivered in partnership with Ishigaki City, the Ishigaki Island Sports Commission and Nippon Sport Science University, held its first remote coaching session on 16 December. The programme connected junior high school handball teams on Ishigaki Island with university player

NTT to run citizen-led infrastructure inspection trial in Tokyo
JAPAN 23 DEC

NTT to run citizen-led infrastructure inspection trial in Tokyo

NTT Group company NTT-ME will launch a large-scale pilot project in the Tokyo metropolitan area to test a citizen-participation approach to telecommunications infrastructure inspection, using a smartphone-based game to collect field data on utility assets. The initiative, which will begin on 31 January 2026, is NTT-ME's first collaboration of this kind in Tokyo, Kanagawa and Chiba. It is being conducted with Singapore-based Digital Entertainment Asset and Growth Ring Grid, developers and operators of the Pi

Costa Rica signs up to Latam-GPT initiative
COSTA RICA 22 DEC

Costa Rica signs up to Latam-GPT initiative

Costa Rica has become the latest country to join Latam-GPT, a regional initiative spearheaded by Chile's Cenia (Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial) to develop a Spanish-language AI model tailored to Latin America. The country's entry was formalised in a memorandum of understanding signed between Costa Rica's Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications and Chile's Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation.

MTS Belarus to offer localised AI solutions based on MTS Cloud
BELARUS 22 DEC

MTS Belarus to offer localised AI solutions based on MTS Cloud

MTS Belarus announced plans to launch localised AI solutions in 2026. The operator plans to develop its own architecture of AI agents and an applied LLM platform. The solutions for businesses will be based on the MTS Cloud infrastructure, operated from two data centres of the operator.

Selectel appoints director for AI
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 22 DEC

Selectel appoints director for AI

Russian cloud and data centre services provider Selectel has appointed Alexander Tugov as its director of AI, reports Vedomosi. This is a new position in the company. Tugov has worked at Selectel for 15 years, previously as director for services development.

LG Uplus partners Nokia to verify Cloud RAN
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF 22 DEC

LG Uplus partners Nokia to verify Cloud RAN

LG Uplus said it has successfully verified Cloud Radio Access Network, in cooperation with Nokia, within a live commercial network environment. Cloud RAN is a technology that implements software functions – previously installed on dedicated hardware at each base station – on virtualised, centralised servers in a cloud environment. The companies built a Cloud RAN field trial network in Cheongdo County, Gyeongbuk Province, in September. 

NTT and Nutanix to launch private AI subscription service for enterprises
JAPAN 22 DEC

NTT and Nutanix to launch private AI subscription service for enterprises

NTT Data Intellilink, NTT TC Lease and Nutanix Japan have announced plans to jointly launch a subscription-based private AI service aimed at accelerating enterprise adoption of generative AI while addressing security and cost concerns. The service, branded "Intellilink Private AI Start Pack", is scheduled to become available from March 2026. It is designed to allow organisations to trial and validate generative AI in their own isolated environments, rather than relying on public cloud platforms, which some

GLOBAL 22 DEC

Palo Alto partners Google Cloud to address AI and cloud security risks

Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud have agreed to a major expansion of their strategic partnership, aiming to strengthen security for enterprises deploying cloud-based and AI-driven applications. The agreement comes amid growing concern over the security of AI infrastructure. According to Palo Alto Networks' State of Cloud Report released this month, 99 percent of surveyed organisations experienced at least one attack targeting their AI infrastructure over the past year, as enterprises increased cloud usag

GERMANY 19 DEC

Telefonica Germany adds RedCap to 5G Plus Pack, forms AI partnership with Capgemini

Telefonica Germany is offering RedCap in combination with its 5G Plus Pack until December next year. Customers can add RedCap free of charge to existing mobile contracts and benefit for an unlimited amount of time if they book the option between 17 December 2025 and 15 December 2026. Users can activate the 5G Plus Pack including RedCap for all 5G Plus-enabled O2 mobile plans on the Mein O2 app, on the Mein O2 customer portal under "Bookable Data Options", by calling the service hotline or in O2 shops.

UNITED STATES 19 DEC

Self-driving truck company picks Verizon Business to supply IoT data and connectivity services

Verizon Business has entered a strategic partnership with Kodiak AI, an autonomous vehicle company focused on self-driving trucks and other haulage vehicles. Under the agreement, Verizon will supply IoT data and connectivity services to underpin Kodiak AI's driverless haulage technology, including its AI virtual driver that enables remote vehicle assistance in a handful of low-speed, well-defined environments where human involvement is beneficial. The feature, dubbed Assisted Autonomy, will leverage Verizon

NORTH AMERICA 19 DEC

Dubber lures tier-1 North American contract for AI-enabled mobile voice recordings

Australia-based Dubber, provider of enterprise-grade call recording technology, has secured a contract with an unnamed North American telco to supply mobile voice recording and AI-based conversation analytics. The deal will initially run for five years, and Dubber expects to receive an initial payment worth around AUD 4.6 million (USD 3.1 million) by end-Q3 2026. This initial sum includes a licence for the Dubber Cloud Recorder platform, as well as on-going maintenance and support services for the initial f

UNITED KINGDOM 19 DEC

UK's AI Security Institute publishes Frontier AI Trends Report

The UK's AI Security Institute has published its inaugural Frontier AI Trends Report, outlining the capabilities of the most advanced AI systems. The report shows that safeguards are improving, with the Institute working with AI companies to strengthen protections and keep people safe. The time taken for Institute red-teamers to find a general way of bypassing an AI model's safety rules (universal jailbreak) has jumped from minutes to several hours between model generations, an around 40-fold improvement.

MIDDLE EAST 19 DEC

ZainTech and Vortex tie up to advance video compression and AI visual intelligence

ZainTech has announced a partnership with Vortex Global, a software company specialising in surveillance and visual intelligence products, to apply AI-powered analytics and efficient compression to enterprise video data services. ZainTech will integrate Vortex's 'Z Compress' and 'Twin Vision' products. Z Compress was developed by Secure City Solutions (SCS) and is a high-performance video compression technology that lowers bandwidth and storage needs without sacrificing codecs, frame rates or video quality.

GLOBAL 19 DEC

Samsung introduces memory module for AI data centres

Samsung has announced the availability of customer samples of SOCAMM2, a new LPDDR-based server memory module designed for AI data centre workloads, as the industry shifts from large-scale model training towards continuous inference. The company said SOCAMM2, short for Small Outline Compression Attached Memory Module, is based on LPDDR5X DRAM and is intended to complement existing DDR-based server memory such as RDIMM in AI-accelerated systems.

GLOBAL 18 DEC

Cloudflare picks 2025 internet trends as Google, Facebook top traffic rankings

Cloudflare has published its annual roundup of key internet trends and its ranking of high-traffic web services. In the trends report, it picked out accelerated AI web crawling activity as an indicator of competition between major tech firms, including search providers and generative AI platforms, with Google's crawling bot leading competitors as the single biggest source of automated internet traffic. 

AFRICA 18 DEC

Cassava and Gebeya launch AI-powered creator platform

Cassava Technologies and Gebeya are launch Gebeya Dala, a suite of AI tools to enable Africans to create digital content using Cassava's data centres and GPU infrastructure. Gebeya Dala is designed for users without technical expertise. Its initial modules include an AI-powered app builder to create functional applications without coding experience and using instructions in their local language, as well as a service to create comics and manga from Africa's oral traditions and stories without prior artistic

GLOBAL 18 DEC

Qualcomm closes Alphawave IP acquisition

Qualcomm has completed its USD 2.4 billion acquisition of Alphawave IP Group. The deal closing is earlier than expected, coming roughly one fiscal quarter ahead of the envisaged timeframe. Alphawave IP's connectivity and custom silicon chipsets are anticipated to support Qualcomm's expansion in the data centre market, with Tony Plias, Alphawave's CEO and co-founder, onboarded to lead Qualcomm's push into the data centre space.

SPAIN 18 DEC

Microsoft, Iberdrola ink Spanish energy and AI deal

Microsoft has signed two new power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Spanish energy giant Iberdrola totalling 150 MW of electricity from the latter's Iglesias wind farm in Burgos and El Escudo wind farm in Cantabria. The new deals add to three PPAs already signed between Microsoft and Iberdrola's US subsidiary Avangrid covering solar and wind projects in Ohio, California and Washington, bringing the total contracted renewables capacity to around 500 MW.

GLOBAL 18 DEC

Fortinet rolls up Arista hardware into expanded Secure AI Data Center framework

Fortinet has announced an expanded iteration of its end-to-end firewall and security framework for AI-targeted data centre networks. The upgraded Fortinet Secure AI Data Center is rolling out in collaboration with its partner Arista Networks. The joint solution combines Arista's software-driven data centre switches and routers with Fortinet's AISC-based network firewalls and a raft of advanced security features, including AI-aware threat protection and encrypted traffic inspection.

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