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North America market trend intelligence tracks cloud service, regional ISP, national telecom, data centre, and institutional infrastructure signals across North American internet infrastructure markets. BTW.MEDIA connects published reports with regional context, public evidence, company actions, governance pressure, capital deployment, and operating constraints so readers can follow market demand, network expansion, competitive change, and operational risk in the digital infrastructure economy. The page explains which infrastructure sectors are moving, which actors are exposed, what public sources support the signal, and why regional execution conditions matter. It helps readers move from scattered announcements to a clearer view of what is changing, which signals are supported by evidence, and which infrastructure decisions may matter over the next planning cycle. It is designed for repeat research, giving operators, investors, analysts, and policy readers a stable way to compare market movement by region, industry, consequence, confidence, and downstream impact on customers, procurement, regulation, and capital planning.
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Cloud Service
Microsoft is testing Start menu ads in Windows 11
Microsoft has begun testing ads in the Start menu of Windows 11, a change that will roll out to users in the US Beta channel.
Cloud Service
US entertainment union Sag-Aftra asks for AI protection for artists
US entertainment union Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (Sag-Aftra) has reached a tentative agreement with major record labels such as Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment that includes raising the minimum wage and preventing the…
Institutional
Dollar rises, yen falls on fading US rate-cut bets
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the pound strengthens on expectations of sustained U.S. interest rates, while the dollar’s surge underscores investor uncertainty. OUR TAKEThe news adeptly illustrates how geopolitical tensions and monetary policy uncertainties can profoundly…
Institutional
US cyber agency says Russian hackers stole government emails
US cyber agencies say Russian government-backed hackers used Microsoft access to steal emails between government officials and tech giants.
Cloud Service
Chipmaker Marvell touts new AI business but market doesn’t care
Marvell Technology said on Thursday it won new business helping large US cloud-computing companies customise chips for artificial intelligence, but the company noted that its customisation business had lower margins than its other businesses. Marvell’s profit Shares fell 2.7%…
Cloud Service
US Rep proposes bill forcing AI companies to disclose training data
Adam Schiff, a Democrat representative from California, proposed a new bill on Tuesday that would force AI companies to disclose data used to train their models before releasing the system. The bill, officially called the “Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act”, requires that…
Cloud Service
104 Employees in the US Apple petition to unionise
OUR TAKEThe report of employees petitioning to unionise could reflect the worse global employment environment to some extent that employees must be unionised to maintain their rights and interests. However, according to a [2022] statement to Bloomberg News, the salary and…
Cloud Service
Who is Michelle Zatlyn? Co-founder of Cloudflare
Michelle Zatlyn is the co-founder and chief operating officer of cybersecurity firm Cloudflare. She brought cyber protection to vulnerable institutions from K-12 schools to local elections, while leading Cloudflare to its first US$1 billion year. She works with the White House on…
Cloud Service
Samsung to get US$6-7 billion in chip subsidy next week
Biden administration allocates $6B+ to Samsung for Texas chip plant, part of efforts to boost domestic semiconductor production.
Cloud Service
Italy’s state-owned bank to invest US$1B in AI over 5 years
The venture capital arm of CDP, Italy’s national bank, will invest €1 billion ($1.1 bln) in AI and cybersecurity over the next 5 years.
Cloud Service
Top tech news stories today: April 9, 2024
TSMC wins $6.6 bln US subsidy for Arizona chip production, Microsoft to launch AI hub in London and other tech news.
Cloud Service
The UK and US agree to create safety checks for AI
The UK and US have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on rigorous testing for advanced AI systems. The partnership aims to align scientific approaches and develop robust evaluation methods for AI models, systems, and agents. Industry experts see this…
Cloud Service
Amazon’s free credits for startups now cover the use of AI models
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will now allow its free credits programme for startups to cover the use of major AI models from other providers, including Meta, Mistral AI, and Cohere, in addition to its own AI platform Bedrock. US$4 billion investment in Anthropic Amazon closed its $4…
Cloud Service
US and UK sign AI safety testing memorandum
The United States and United Kingdom signed a memorandum to align AI safety testing through their national AI Safety Institutes, including shared model-evaluation methods and at least one planned joint test.
National Telecom
AT&T admitted that a data breach affected 73 million active and returning subscribers
AT&T's March 2024 disclosure is a telecom customer-account exposure case, not a generic breach-count headline. The company said a data set released on the dark web appeared to be from 2019 or earlier and affected about 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former…
Cloud Service
US and UK announce partnership on science of AI safety
The U.S. and UK signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Monday, which will see them work together to develop tests for the most advanced AI models, following through on commitments made at the AI Safety Summit last November. The new partnership Following commitments…
Cloud Service
Google Podcasts in the US may be discontinued soon
Google is discontinuing its Podcasts app in the U.S., prompting users to switch to YouTube Music for uninterrupted access to their favorite podcasts. Migration deadline announced The company has commenced notifying users of the app that they are required to transfer their…
Datacenter
Microsoft, OpenAI plot US$100 billion Stargate AI supercomputer
Microsoft and OpenAI are developing plans for a data center project that could cost $100 billion and include an AI supercomputer called “Stargate”, which is expected to be launched in 2028. The concept of the plan Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and Microsoft have spread the…
Cloud Service
Microsoft is supposedly developing ‘Stargate’ to carry OpenAI forward
Microsoft plans to build a $100 billion supercomputer, “Stargate,” to power OpenAI’s next generation of AI systems, marking the final phase of Microsoft and OpenAI’s US supercomputer project. the Origin of Stargate Stargate, a 1994 science-fiction film, explores an interstellar…
Cloud Service
US federal agencies now required to have chief AI officer
All U.S. federal agencies are required to have a designated “Chief AI Officer” who oversees AI technology used by the agency.