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Al Jazeera Media Network has announced a major expansion of its strategic collaboration with Google Cloud, naming the company as its main technology provider for Al Jazeera’ s transformative initiative,‘ The Core’.
Al Jazeera Media Network launches AI-Integrated news model built on Google Cloud
This new collaboration aims to redefine the future of journalism by integrating Google’ s advanced Generative AI and agentic capabilities into the heart of news production.
Al Jazeera designed‘ The Core’ as a pioneering operational model to shift the role of AI from a passive tool to an active partner in journalism. Unlike traditional Digital Transformation initiatives that simply digitise existing workflows,‘ The Core’ reimagines the entire news production lifecycle, from information gathering to content delivery, by embedding AI with humans in the loop at every stage.
Sheikh Nasser bin Faisal Al Thani, Director General of Al Jazeera Media Network, said:“ Al Jazeera is committed to establishing a global technological ecosystem that cements our leadership in the AI era.‘ The Core’ is the embodiment of this vision – an integrated model where human expertise and AI work in tandem to modernise journalism.
“ Google Cloud’ s proven expertise in AI make it the ideal partner to help us execute this ambitious transformation, ensuring our journalism remains agile, accurate and deeply engaging for our global audience.”
The project’ s primary mission is to empower journalists to focus on highvalue storytelling by offloading complex data processing and operational tasks to intelligent agents.
e & UAE upgrades EMIX core network with 400G links
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& UAE’ s EMIX network, one of the region’ s leading IP transit platforms, has deployed 400G links across its UAE core to meet sustained traffic growth of over 20 % annually.
The upgrade expands core capacity, improves end-to-end latency and lowers per-bit costs. It will also be extended to EMIX’ s international points of presence( PoPs), improving performance and economics for carriers, ISPs and mobile operators across the MENA region. headroom, lower latency, and better unit economics as traffic patterns become more AI-driven. We selected Cisco for its leadership across silicon, software, and automation, and we’ re aligning our roadmap to bring these benefits to our international PoPs next.”
The Cisco ASR9000 Aggregation Services Routers that handle e & UAE’ s core routing are built with modularity and futureproofing in mind, enabling a relatively straightforward upgrade path through the adoption of 400G-enabled Ethernet line cards.
Delivered in collaboration with Cisco, the multi-year programme introduces AI and ML-driven network automation. These capabilities enable intent-based, closedloop operations designed to accelerate service provisioning, reduce human error and strengthen reliability as demand continues to scale.
Khalid Al Khaja, Vice President, Business & IP Core at e & UAE, said:“ Moving EMIX to 400G is about giving our wholesale and operator customers more
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