When people talk about artificial intelligence and language, the focus usually defaults to English, a handful of European languages and perhaps a few from Asia. African languages – thousands of them, often tonal, hyper-local and deeply contextual – rarely make the roadmap. That blind spot is exactly where Nkenne is building a business and a ...

Enterprise software architecture has long suffered from what can be called an “integration tax.” When an organization deploys a communications platform, it rarely stops at the basic functions, such as calling and messaging. To extract operational value, it must overlay data analytics layers, emergency notification systems and context-matching engines. Each addition introduces architectural complexity, data ...

Neocloud provider QumulusAI announced today that it has secured more than $124 million in customer subscriptions for three-year terms with Hyperbolic and another leading artificial intelligence inference platform. These agreements cover deployments totaling 1,280 Nvidia Corp. Blackwell GPUs, delivered via 160 Lenovo and Supermicro bare-metal servers connected with Cisco Systems Inc. Nexus networking to form ...

Since Zscaler Inc.‘s launch, the company’s mission has been to disrupt traditional access and security with its Zero Trust platform. At its user event, Zenith Live, in Las Vegas, the company made its case for what its next act would look like: becoming the foundational “zero trust for agentic AI” platform. For enterprises, the keynote by ...

The networking industry loves inflection points. Over the years, we have had many new compute models that require the network to evolve. For as long as I can remember, the holy war between InfiniBand and Ethernet was fought on a relatively simple battlefield: throughput versus ubiquity. But as artificial intelligence workloads scale from tens of ...

At Cisco Systems Inc.‘s annual event, Cisco Live, this week in Las Vegas, it was no surprise that artificial intelligence was the top theme of the show and dominated most of the news and product innovations announced. Cisco has been successful in riding the AI wave and using it as a growth engine. Over the past ...

Sovereign cloud discussions have been a core part of artificial intelligence and infrastructure conversations for the past few years and are now critical to communications. Historically, the communications sector has been a late adopter of technology trends due to the mission-critical nature of its operations. However, given that customer service is one of the “low-hanging fruit” ...

Useful artificial intelligence has arrived, and if Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang is right, it is about to reshape not only data centers but also the structure of the global economy and the tech labor market. In his GTC Taipei 2026 keynote, Huang laid out his vision for the “age of agents,” agentic AI systems that ...

Artificial intelligence is forcing companies to change almost every aspect of their business. From operations to hiring to sales and training, change is happening faster than ever. One aspect of this change that has flown under the radar is the need for companies to rethink their business continuity plans. AI is pressuring enterprises to move ...

Of all the companies I track, Zoom Communications Inc. might be the most interesting, as it’s evolving in ways that run counter to its traditional peers. When speaking with industry colleagues, including investors, channel partners, customers and fellow industry analysts, Zoom is often grouped into the unified communications-as-a-service or the contact center-as-a-service bucket. Zoom was ...