Category: MIL-OSI

Source: APO

With a global community of over 450 million active users, Truecaller (www.Truecaller.com) has become more than just a caller ID service; it’s a trusted guide in helping people understand not only who is reaching out, but the intent behind every call.

Truecaller has now started providing deeper contextual insights using AI on incoming calls received by its users, going way beyond showing just the caller’s name. This includes AI summaries of user comments as well. From flagging potential fraud and identifying likely spam to suggesting relevant business categories, this information is delivered instantly, powered by advanced AI classification models and continuously enriched by millions of daily reports from its highly engaged user community.

This real-time intelligence not only enhances user trust and safety but also reinforces Truecaller’s leadership in the next generation of caller identification technology. While the company also offers a Verified Business badge for official brand identities, the majority of contextual insights shown to users are generated dynamically by AI — requiring no manual labeling or business registration.

While basic caller ID services provided by telecom operators have traditionally offered little more than a name (when available) and sometimes a simple spam tag, Truecaller, on the other hand, leverages AI and real-time insights, making it a far more intelligent layer of protection.

“People hesitate to answer unknown calls because they lack context and in today’s world, context is everything,” said Rishit Jhunjhunwala, Global CEO of Truecaller. “Truecaller was built to solve this: not just to identify who’s calling, but to help you understand why. Is it someone from your network, a delivery, a business or a scam? Our AI uses real-time data and contextual signals to give you clarity the moment your phone rings, turning uncertainty into informed choice. Knowing ‘who’ is calling is only part of the story.”

AI That Adds Context to Every Call
Truecaller’s Caller ID is powered by a dynamic, AI-driven engine that interprets billions of signals from calls, messages, and user feedback across the globe — every single day. Unlike traditional systems that depend on static databases or delayed telecom updates, Truecaller delivers real-time intelligence that evolves with user behavior, communication patterns, and emerging global spam and fraud threats. This continuous learning loop ensures that users are always equipped with the most relevant, up-to-date context transforming the way we understand and respond to incoming calls.

This means Truecaller can do much more than just identify a number:

• It can indicate whether the caller is a known fraudster or part of a scam network
• It can tell you if the number is “likely a business” or “likely important”, even if there is not enough community feedback
• It can classify the type of business — for example, Delivery, Customer Support, or Insurance
• It can alert you about suspicious behavior, even before that number has been widely reported by the community
• It can provide a single line AI summary of hundreds of user comments, while the phone is still ringing 

Built for a World Where Threats Evolve by the Minute
The scale and sophistication of phone scams are growing rapidly with Truecaller identifying more than 56 billion spam and fraud calls in 2024. According to the Global Anti‑Scam Alliance and Feedzai, worldwide losses from scams topped an estimated $1.03 trillion in 2024. With phone calls and messaging among the most common fraud methods, this highlights the growing urgency of real-time caller intelligence and protection.

Truecaller’s edge lies in its adaptive AI, which detects emerging fraud patterns in real time and learns from them across regions, languages, and formats. A number flagged for impersonation in one country can be proactively labeled elsewhere, thanks to shared intelligence and behavioral modeling. Built on global data but tuned for local context, Truecaller ensures nuanced, accurate protection and sustained user trust.

A Global Safety Net Built by the Community
Truecaller’s global scale is its greatest strength. With hundreds of millions of users across 190+ countries, the platform benefits from an immense stream of real-time, community-driven feedback enabling its AI to detect threats like fraud, spoofing, and robocalls faster and more accurately than traditional systems. In a time of rising digital deception, Truecaller acts as a frontline defense: AI-powered, human-informed, and built around trust. As it continues to evolve, its mission remains clear: to make communication smarter, safer, and seamlessly contextual.

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Truecaller.

About Truecaller:
Truecaller is an essential part of everyday communication for over 450 million active users, with more than a billion downloads since launch and close to 56 billion unwanted calls identified and blocked in 2024 alone. The company has been headquartered in Stockholm since 2009 and has been publicly listed on Nasdaq Stockholm since October 2021. Visit www.Truecaller.com for more information

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Angolan President João Lourenço opened the 2025 edition of the Angola Oil & Gas (AOG) conference in Luanda today, offering a clear vision for the next era of the country’s hydrocarbon-led development. Underscoring the role oil and gas development has played in the country’s transformation, President Lourenço emphasized that these resources will continue to strengthen the Angolan economy for years to come.

“The oil sector has been instrumental for the growth of our country. Exploration and production of natural resources has contributed to the improvement of the living conditions of the people of Angola. Angola provides investment conditions that ensure contract, stability, legal certainty and investment durability. Cooperation between private and public sector, between international companies and local partners, will be key for achieving our aspirations,” stated President Lourenço.

Taking place on the eve of Angola’s 50 years of independence celebration, AOG 2025 recognizes the catalyzing role oil and gas have played in the country’s development, offering a strategic dealmaking platform that will lay the foundation for the next 50 years of growth.

“Five decades ago, the Angolan people fought for their right to sovereignty. Along the years, the oil sector has been fundamental for the economy and the development of our country. This a moment for us to celebrate but also reflect, looking at how we can use our resource more effectively and striking the balance between economic growth, social justice and environmental protection,” President Lourenço said.

AOG comes as Angola celebrates a series of industry milestones in 2025, as companies take concrete steps towards enhancing crude production, driving non-associated gas development and opening new frontiers across the oil and gas value chain. Upstream, the country started production at the Agogo FPSO, the Begonia oilfield and the CLOV Phase 3 Developments. A gas discovery was made at Block 1/14 in the Lower Congo basin while exploration campaigns kicked off across almost all of the country’s onshore and offshore basins.

“Our current actions are directed towards mitigating production decline and keeping output above one million bpd. Since the last conference, we have concluded several activities. We started activities at the Agogo project as well as developments in Block 17 and 17/06. Complementing these activities is exploration in new basins. Another important project is the Kaminho development,” stated Diamantino Azevedo, Minister of Mineral Resources, Petroleum and Gas, Angola.

On the downstream side, Angola started production at the Cabinda Refinery on September 1, 2025. The facility adds 30,000 barrels per day in its first phase, doubling output in the second phase. The project is Angola’s second operational oil refinery and will play a major part in reducing refined imports and enhancing fuel security.

“We continue with the development of the Lobito refinery while we assess the feasibility of the Soyo project. These position Angola as a new regional center for oil. We have also improved the legislation for local participation in the industry. The commitment is to widen partnerships and create value for the people of Angola,” Minister Azevedo added. 

– on behalf of Energy Capital & Power.

Source: APO

Léandre Bassolé, the new Director General of the African Development Bank Group’s (www.AfDB.org) Regional Office for Development, Integration, and Business Delivery for Central Africa, officially took office on 27 August 2025, in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Bassolé presented his letters of introduction to Oumarou Chinmoun, Secretary General of the Cameroonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representing Minister Lejeune Mbella Mbella. Discussions between the two figures highlighted the Bank’s strategic role in the development of Cameroon and the sub-region.

“We understand that you are here as a son, as a brother, and as a friend,” said Chinmoun. “I must tell you how pleased our government is that the Bank has chosen our country to host its headquarters in the sub-region.”

He added: “At the sub-regional level, we welcome your support in the implementation of economic and financial programmes. Given the challenges posed by the crisis in the global financial architecture, the support of the African Development Bank represents added value that helps to strengthen the resilience of our countries when confronted with various shocks.”

The day after taking office (28 August), Bassolé was officially welcomed by Alamine Ousmane Mey, Minister of Economy, Planning, and Regional Development, and Governor of the Bank for Cameroon. Their discussions focused on the state of cooperation, the progress of existing projects, and the prospects for new commitments in support of the National Development Strategy 2030.

“I greatly appreciate the quality of our cooperative relationship with the Bank Group,” said Mey. “We have 24 active projects in priority development-related sectors, with a focus on implementing integrated projects that will have a real impact on the economy and the quality of life of our population.”

Bassolé, meanwhile, emphasised the Bank’s priority to strengthen its operational presence, accelerate project implementation, and increase the impact of said projects in the seven countries covered by the regional office (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, DRC and Chad).

“The African Development Bank’s strategy is to roll out all our regional operations from Cameroon and make Yaoundé a centre of excellence,” he said. “Our commitments in the country now amount to around $2.2 billion, with nearly 50 per cent in transport, followed by energy and agriculture.”

He concluded: “We will work hand-in-hand to develop projects and programmes that meet the aspirations of the Cameroonian authorities and contribute, in a sustainable way, to improving the living conditions of the population.”

As of 30 June 2025, the African Development Bank Group’s portfolio in Cameroon comprised 24 projects worth $2.2 billion. Across the Central Africa region, it represents 130 operations, including around 40 regional and multinational projects, totalling over $5 billion.

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Development Bank Group (AfDB).