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☁️ AWS and Orange Announce Cloud Computing Services in Morocco and Senegal
🤖 PwC becomes OpenAI's First Resale Partner, Signing 100K employees to ChatGPT Enterprise
💳 Ecobank Group Expands AmEx Card Acceptance Across 21 African Countries
🤖 Ex-OpenAI board member, Helen Toner, explains why they fired Sam Altman
📱FCCPC: Approved loan apps companies in Nigeria rise to 284 in May 2024

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☁️ CLOUD COMPUTING

AWS and Orange Announce Cloud Computing Services in Morocco and Senegal

In a strategic move to expand its cloud footprint in Africa, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has partnered with Orange Middle East & Africa (OMEA) to bring AWS Wavelength to Morocco and Senegal. This initiative, announced on Wednesday, marks the first deployment of AWS services in countries without physical AWS infrastructure like data centers.

Instead, the services will be hosted in Orange’s data centers, enabling local processing and storage of data.........continue reading

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🤖ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

PwC becomes OpenAI's First Resale Partner, Signing 100K employees to ChatGPT Enterprise

OpenAI has announced a significant milestone in its journey to integrate artificial intelligence into the corporate world. The AI research and deployment company has signed a major deal with PwC, one of the largest management consulting firms globally. This partnership is set to bring OpenAI’s ChatGPT to 100,000 PwC employees, making PwC OpenAI’s largest customer to date.

Additionally, PwC will become the first partner authorized to resell ChatGPT’s enterprise offerings to other businesses, signaling a new phase of AI adoption in the professional services industry...........continue reading

💳 CARD PAYMENTS

Ecobank Group Expands AmEx Card Acceptance Across 21 African Countries

American Express and Ecobank Group, a leading pan-African financial services provider, have announced a landmark agreement to significantly expand American Express Card acceptance across 21 African countries.

Under this agreement, American Express Card Members will be able to use their cards in twelve new countries: Burundi, Central African Republic, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Niger, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, and Togo. Additionally, American Express acceptance will increase in nine countries where it already exists: Cape Verde, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, the Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. The rollout in these countries will occur over the next 12 months............continue reading

🤖 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Ex-OpenAI board member, Helen Toner, explains why they fired Sam Altman

On November 17th, 2023, OpenAI’s board shocked everyone by suddenly ousting co-founder and CEO Sam Altman.

He had been overseeing one of the fastest-growing app launches in history with ChatGPT, so what happened? Former board member Helen Toner is filling in blank spaces in an interview on The TED AI Show podcast, providing her perspective on the events that caused board members to stop trusting Altman as well as how he eventually returned.......continue reading

OTHER STORIES

• FCCPC: Approved loan apps companies in Nigeria rise to 284 in May 2024. The number of loan app companies approved by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has increased to 284 as of May 2024…….read more

• Microsoft’s Copilot is now on Telegram. Microsoft’s Copilot, a generative AI-powered tool that can generate text as well as answer specific questions, is now available as an in-app chatbot on Telegram, the instant messaging app……read more