Clear Mobitel promises big investment in Zimbabwe telecoms

Data and AI deals are very much in the news at the moment, thanks notably to a South American sale involving digital giant Atos and plans announced by investment company SoftBank Group to acquire digital infrastructure investor DigitalBridge Group.

Artificial intelligence has become the most ubiquitous term in an industry obsessed with buzzwords, with the astronomical levels of hype matched only by the investment being poured into the technology.

AI technologies-focused company Graphcore, a wholly owned subsidiary of multinational investment holding company SoftBank, says it is opening a new AI engineering campus in Bengaluru in India.