Anthropic hires French telecom group Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to help Anthropic "better understand and adapt" its products to Europe and Africa
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Anthropic bringing in Orange’s Chief AI Officer to shape its Europe and Africa push shows that regional expertise — regulatory, telco, and cultural — is now a prerequisite for frontier model deployment. If you’re expanding AI products across these markets, you need local operators at the table, not just translated docs.
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