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Nokia completes acquisition of Infinera
Nokia has closed its acquisition of Infinera with the San Jose based company becoming part of Nokia effective as of the closing.
The acquisition brings together two innovation leaders with a history of industry firsts and creates an optical networks powerhouse.
Infinera CEO David Heard will join Nokia’ s Network Infrastructure business group as NI Chief Strategic Growth Officer – with the Infinera team joining Nokia’ s Optical Networks business.
“ This transaction will accelerate our growth strategy in data centers and strengthen our presence both in North America and with webscale customers,” remarked Pekka Lundmark, President and CEO, Nokia.
“ We are creating a new organization that will be a pacesetter in innovation, offering capabilities across a wide range of optical networking technologies, underpinned by the cutting-edge research of Nokia Bell Labs,” said Federico Guillén, President of Network Infrastructure, Nokia.
“ I’ m excited about the widely expanded opportunities this new chapter opens up and what it means for Nokia and its Network Infrastructure business,” said Heard.
With more than 1,000 customers globally, the combined company’ s solutions power some of the biggest operators worldwide, along with leading organizations in verticals including enterprise, utilities, government and research and education.
Meeting the challenges of the AI era, data centers are at an inflection point as AI and cloud put massive new demands on them.
Overcoming these challenges requires new ways of thinking about data center technology that emphasizes mission-critical aspects of networking technology.
Whisper raises $ 1m to scale AI-powered behavioral cloning sales technology for content creators
Whisper, a state-of-the-art AI-driven sales and behavioral cloning technology for content creators, has raised $ 1 million in a recent funding round led by investors, including AngelList Early Stage Quant Fund and a consortium of high-networth content creators.
Content creators make up the largest shareholder group, reinforcing Whisper’ s mission to develop AI-powered sales tools designed specifically to serve their needs.
“ We’ ve built state-of-the-art AI sales tools for a large, underserved market and we’ re scaling our operations to meet the growing demand,” said Jesse Silver, Co-founder, Whisper.
“ This funding allows us to refine our behavioral cloning models and expand our AI capabilities to better support creators in monetizing their content efficiently.”
At the core of Whisper’ s technology is an AI-powered autonomous agent capable of analyzing a creator’ s engagement style, tone and decision-making logic. It then mimics these behaviors, allowing creators to delegate interactions, price content dynamically and distribute media without manual oversight.
Whisper stresses its AI isn’ t about replacing human connection but making it scalable and giving creators the tools to engage authentically while growing their business.
Whisper has been operating in beta for the past 13 months, working closely with creators to refine its AI models.
During this period, creators have, on average, increased their revenue by 200 %, demonstrating the effectiveness of Whisper’ s AI-driven sales tools in optimizing engagement and monetization.
To date, the company has worked with over 300 creator accounts and interacts with more than 100,000 users daily.
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