Sovereignty drives Orange Business to open-weight AI. Orange Business is moving its most sensitive AI workloads onto open-weight models running on infrastructure it controls, driven primarily by sovereignty concerns. I talked with Miguel Alvarez Bernardo, Orange chief data and AI officer, about how the company is adapting to the changing AI landscape. “On AI, if your expectations are not being reset at least twice a month, you are maybe not paying attention to everything that’s going on,” he said. My latest on Fierce Network.