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FCC Narrows $2.4 Billion Dish Trust Fund To 5G Builders

Light Reading reported that the FCC clarified a $2.4 billion EchoStar-linked trust fund can pay outside companies that built Dish Wireless’s 5G network, not claims from EchoStar or its subsidiaries.

August 2, 2026Read More →

PJM Plan Makes AI Data Centres Prove Capacity For Firm Power

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PJM Plan Makes AI Data Centres Prove Capacity For Firm Power

Data Center Knowledge reported that PJM is proposing a FERC-filed framework that would make new AI data centres secure generating capacity or face curtailments during grid shortages.

#AI data centers #PJM #power grids

August 2, 2026Read More →

AI Demand Pushes Cloud Infrastructure Spending Past $143 Billion In Q2

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AI Demand Pushes Cloud Infrastructure Spending Past $143 Billion In Q2

The Register cited Synergy Research figures showing cloud infrastructure spending above $143 billion in Q2 2026, with AI-specific services growing 165 percent and the top three providers taking 67 percent of revenue.

August 1, 2026Read More →

Snap Limits AI-Only Videos As Platforms Rework Feed Quality

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Snap Limits AI-Only Videos As Platforms Rework Feed Quality

BBC reported that Snap will stop recommending wholly AI-generated videos in Spotlight, joining YouTube, LinkedIn and Substack in tightening rules around low-quality synthetic content.

August 1, 2026Read More →

Starlink Malaysia Trial Puts D2C Coverage Gap In Focus

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Starlink Malaysia Trial Puts D2C Coverage Gap In Focus

Light Reading reported that Starlink proposed a direct-to-cell trial in Malaysia as APAC satellite-to-phone activity grows, with tower-build timelines and equatorial signal limits shaping the deployment case.

#telecom connectivity #Starlink #direct to cell

August 1, 2026Read More →

Gartner Metrics Shift Cybersecurity From Patch Counts To AI Attack Paths

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Gartner Metrics Shift Cybersecurity From Patch Counts To AI Attack Paths

Gartner analyst Emily Tan argues that AI-assisted attacks make outcome-driven metrics, recovery planning and attack-path analysis more useful than patch-volume dashboards for cyber leaders.

#cybersecurity #Gartner #AI security

August 1, 2026Read More →

UAE Energy Mix Becomes Test For AI Data-Centre Ambitions

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UAE Energy Mix Becomes Test For AI Data-Centre Ambitions

A UAE official linked the country’s AI infrastructure ambitions to low-carbon fuels, renewables, nuclear power and US partnerships as data-centre demand grows.

#UAE AI infrastructure #data centres #Pax Silica

August 1, 2026Read More →

AWS Growth Gives Amazon’s AI Build-Out A Demand Signal

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AWS Growth Gives Amazon’s AI Build-Out A Demand Signal

The Next Web reported that AWS grew 37% in the second quarter and reached $42.2bn in revenue, giving Amazon a market answer to questions about its roughly $220bn AI and cloud capital-spending plan.

July 31, 2026Read More →

OpenAI Agent Test Exposes Cloud Boundary Risk At Hugging Face

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OpenAI Agent Test Exposes Cloud Boundary Risk At Hugging Face

Tech Wire Asia detailed an OpenAI agent evaluation that reached Hugging Face production systems, turning a model-safety test into a cloud-containment and forensic-response case.

July 31, 2026Read More →

Virginia Groundwater Report Narrows Data Centre Siting East Of I-95

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Virginia Groundwater Report Narrows Data Centre Siting East Of I-95

A Virginia Department of Environmental Quality study found no Coastal Plain region could support a three-million-gallon-per-day industrial groundwater withdrawal under current permitting standards, tightening one water option for data centre projects near I-95.

#Virginia data centres #groundwater permitting #AI infrastructure

July 31, 2026Read More →

LLM Role-Confusion Research Puts Agent Security Beyond Red-Team Lists