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Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
China Merchants Bank logs 13.88m AI-equivalent hours
China Merchants Bank says token throughput rose more than 78% as it measures AI use against the work delivered.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
FLEX and Sentinel-3C prepare for Vega-C launch
The two Earth-observation missions will fly together, but routine use depends on commissioning and data that can be compared with existing records.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
NSW closes data-centre grid-cost consultation
NSW’s proposed grid rules could make data-centre developers put up more money before connection work begins.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Wind Tre unions call overtime restrictions through 12 October
Restrictions on overtime, supplementary work and on-call availability run to 12 October, while planned night work is excluded from the action.
History
The Text Looked Readable. The Gateway Still Had Choices: RFC 2152
UTF-7 let a 1997 mail reader leave much of an ASCII message in plain sight while carrying the rest of Unicode through a seven-bit channel. That readability was useful, but it was never a preservation receipt: punctuation could take more than one legal route, shifted text could…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
China Mobile launches hybrid-chip AI inference system
Mobile Cloud says its GPU-neuromorphic design cut operating costs by more than 40% in DeepSeek V4 Flash tests against comparable domestic GPU clusters.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
China expands national computing-capacity monitoring
China's national computing platform is widening visibility across provincial systems, but its value will depend on whether buyers can turn listed capacity into usable computing services.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Firmus pitches A$7bn AI float to Asian investors
Firmus is courting investors for a proposed Australian listing while five of its seven AI computing sites remain under development.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
ASML gains broader backing for High NA tools
ASML's High NA tools are gaining customers, but their economics will be decided on the production line rather than by the machine price alone.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
SoftBank tests HAPS service ahead of 2027 launch
A Sceye platform crossed the Pacific and carried calls, messages and data over SoftBank's network, moving the project beyond earlier airborne demonstrations.
Story
RIPE’s RDAP Marks a Mixed AS Block Reserved at Either Boundary
RIPE’s RDAP Marks a Mixed AS Block Reserved at Either Boundary intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The…
North America National Telecom Trends
GTS's SPAC deal leaves the most important cash number blank
The proposed combination of NMP Acquisition and Gibson Technical Services carries an implied enterprise value of US$400 million and points to about US$119.8 million in NMP's trust. Neither number tells GTS how much cash it can actually deploy. Public shareholders may redeem…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Samsung and SK hynix reject KEPCO power prepayment plan
KEPCO wanted future electricity bills to help fund grid construction now, but Samsung and SK hynix rejected a proposed 25 trillion won advance.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Samsung backs ASML High NA for 2028 DRAM
Samsung plans to use ASML's High NA lithography in volume DRAM production from 2028, while a separate larger-mask programme remains years away.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Media City Qatar, Es’hailSat launch service bundles
Licensed media companies can now buy bundled satellite, teleport, colocation and managed broadcast services under the partners' April agreement.
Global Datacenter Trends
PwC sees data-centre capex reaching $31.6tn
PwC expects annual data-centre investment to keep rising through 2050 as servers, GPUs and other computing equipment are replaced repeatedly.
CASE FILE
The Public Record for the Auckland Declaration Cannot Yet Route an Incident
Four research-network leaders have signed a regional cyber-resilience declaration built around trust, preparedness, information sharing, incident coordination and mutual support. The promise matters. The pages now available to a member or partner still do not show who can receive…
Global Institutional Trends
Qualcomm launches Dragonwing chips for edge AI
The Q-2390 and IQ-2390 bring AI, vision and connectivity into compact commercial and industrial systems, with evaluation kits expected in early 2027.
North America Cloud Services Trends
EVERYWHERE's new investor backs the layer beyond connectivity
NexPhase's investment targets a field-team software platform, not just another communications path. The buyer's contract still determines who responds when an alert arrives.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Rocket Lab launches 16th Electron mission of 2026
Electron carried a confidential Earth-observation satellite to a 500km orbit, while the customer's identity and the spacecraft's operating plans remain undisclosed.