Safaricom's mobile data revenue has surpassed voice revenue for the first time in the company's history, signaling a significant shift in connectivity trends. This development highlights the increasing digitization of the Kenyan economy and consumers' move towards data-driven communication.

• Mobile data revenue grew by 13.4% year-on-year to KShs 40.32 billion, representing 20.8% of total service revenue.
• Voice revenue declined by 2.1% to KShs 39.72 billion.
• The number of smartphone users increased by 16.2% to 28.7 million, with 4G devices growing by 27% to 24.4 million on Safaricom's network.
• 5G adoption saw a 55.9% year-on-year increase, reaching 1.3 million devices.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI have announced a massive $38 billion multi-year partnership where OpenAI will leverage AWS’s cloud infrastructure to power its advanced artificial intelligence workloads.

• The deal, valued at $38 billion, is one of the largest cloud infrastructure agreements in recent years.
• AWS will provide OpenAI with access to Amazon EC2 UltraServers, featuring NVIDIA GPUs and scaling to tens of millions of CPUs.
• This partnership diversifies OpenAI’s compute strategy, which has historically relied on Microsoft Azure.