Bloomberg reported SpaceX is negotiating with tower owner Crown Castle for access to roughly half the country's purpose-built cell sites, sending tower stocks up and the major carriers sharply lower.
Ukrainian drone operators reported sudden Starshield connectivity losses hours after a major Russian missile barrage on October 14. Zelenskyy suspects the restriction was deliberate; neither SpaceX nor the US government has explained it.
Meta's new cable will run roughly 7,000 kilometers between the United States and France, doubling the capacity of today's fastest transoceanic systems using multi-core fiber technology never before deployed at this distance. It's expected to enter service in 2029.
Akamai will provide distributed cloud infrastructure to handle Anthropic's growing compute workloads, while Anthropic receives warrants for roughly 5% of Akamai's stock, tied to how much of the expanded deal it eventually commits to.
A new framework covering Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE commits Microsoft to cloud and AI infrastructure through 2030, plus $400 million for subsea and terrestrial connectivity.
Mozilla and Mistral AI are pitching Firefox Smart Window as a privacy-first, non-US alternative to browser AI, with zero data retention and a rollout starting in France and North America.
New defaults taking effect today block AI training and agent crawlers on ad-supported pages unless they clearly declare their purpose, closing a loophole multi-purpose bots like Googlebot previously used to gather training data under cover of search indexing.
What began as a performance incident at 13:40 UTC cascaded through API requests, Actions, Issues, Pull Requests, authentication, and Copilot over more than seven hours, with error rates hitting 50% on repository downloads at the peak.
Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW natural gas plant in West Texas authorized to emit 33 million tons of CO₂ per year — potentially more than any other single facility in the US — to power its first off-grid AI data center campus.
A malfunction in Amazon Web Services' billing computation system displayed wildly inflated charges to some customers on July 17, with one bill estimated at roughly $2.5 billion. Amazon says the numbers are wrong and a fix is still in progress.
Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying it had gained access to the company's Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting provider popular with enterprise customers)
An experienced hacking group has claimed to have infiltrated Rockstar Games' cloud servers, while the game publisher has confirmed that there was a "third-party data breach." ShinyHunters, a hacker group that's been linked to data breaches targeting Microsoft, Google, Ticketmaste