{"id":1038121,"date":"2026-09-24T07:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038121"},"modified":"2026-09-24T07:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:23:13","slug":"us-telco-verizon-to-invest-70-mn-in-nationwide-ai-skilling-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/us-telco-verizon-to-invest-70-mn-in-nationwide-ai-skilling-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"US telco Verizon to invest $70 mn in nationwide AI skilling initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Verizon said on Wednesday that it is investing $70 million cumulatively as part of a nationwide initiative to provide jobseekers, displaced workers, and small businesses with artificial intelligence (AI) skills. <\/p>\n<p>Verizon last year committed $20 million to help departing employees gain AI skills after announcing plans to cut 13,000 jobs. The new initiative adds a further $50 million. <\/p>\n<p>The US telecom operator last year committed $20 million under the \u201cReskilling and Career Transition Fund\u201d to help departing employees gain AI skills following its plans to cut 13,000 jobs. This new initiative adds another $50 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Verizon said on Wednesday that it is investing $70 million cumulatively as part of a nationwide initiative to provide jobseekers, displaced workers, and small businesses with artificial intelligence (AI) skills. Verizon last year committed $20 million to help departing employees gain AI skills after announcing plans to cut 13,000 jobs. The new initiative adds a further $50 million. The US telecom operator last year committed $20 million under the \u201cReskilling and Career Transition Fund\u201d to help departing employees gain AI skills following its plans to cut 13,000 jobs. This new initiative adds another $50 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038143,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038121\/revisions\/1038143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}