AFP to support World News Day 2024
Alongside hundreds of other news organizations, media support associations, and individuals from over 100 countries, AFP has committed to raise awareness about World News Day.
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SCX Brings Sovereign AI to Equinix’s AI Ecosystem and Confirms National Expansion with SambaNova SN50
SouthernCrossAI (SCX), Australia's full-stack sovereign AI infrastructure company, today announced it is now providing sovereign AI inferencing capacity to the Equinix Fabric AI ecosystem, making its ASIC-powered inference nodes discoverable and accessible to enterprises, government agencies, and developers across the Equinix ecosystem. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260428587163/en/SCX brings sovereign AI to the Equ...
AFP at major media conference in Argentina
On 19 and 20 September, AFP took part in the annual General Assembly of ADEPA (Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas Argentinas), the influential association of Argentine media, held in Posadas, in the north of the country.
AFP appoints Guillaume Meyer as Deputy News Director for Video and Audio
Agence France-Presse (AFP) has appointed Guillaume Meyer as Deputy News Director for Video and Audio.
Meyer, 43, currently holds the position of Global Editor-in-Chief for Video and is the first journalist from the video department to step into this management role. He succeeds Juliette Hollier-Larousse, who has held the position since 2017.
Op-ed by Fabrice Fries, AFP Chairman and CEO
AFP Chairman and CEO, Fabrice Fries, expresses concern in an op-ed in Le Monde about the suspension of fact-checking on Meta's social media platforms.
AFP Chairman and CEO, Fabrice Fries, expresses concern in an op-ed in Le Monde about the suspension of fact-checking on Meta's social media platforms.
Eighty years ago, as Paris was liberated, AFP was born
Agence France-Presse was created in the tumult of World War II by a band of resistance journalists who stormed a pro-Nazi newsroom and took over five days before Paris was liberated.
By Juliette Baillot
It was August 20, 1944, two days after Resistance leader Henri Rol-Tanguy had called Parisians into action against the Nazis who had occupied their city for four years.
