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Tauranga Road Policing staff managed two convoys of Samoan and Tongan rugby league supporters, each with more than 100 vehicles, through Tauranga and Mount Maunganui on the evening of 31 October. Police issued infringement notices for offences including noisy vehicle equipment, riding in a dangerous position and not wearing seatbelts, after complaints about blocked intersections and unrestrained children. A targeted operation in Mount Maunganui afterwards led to further infringement notices.
California Governor Gavin Newsom sent a letter to the chief judges of the state's four federal district courts warning of potential election interference by the Trump administration ahead of…
The 'See it. Say it. Sorted.' rail safety campaign has marked its tenth anniversary, with passengers sending more than 1.5 million texts to British Transport Police on 61016 since 2016, leading to…
Anthony Albanese is attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua and Barbuda, running 31 October to 4 November 2026, where leaders from more than 50 countries will focus on…
Tauranga Road Policing staff managed two convoys of Samoan and Tongan rugby league supporters, each with more than 100 vehicles, through Tauranga and Mount Maunganui on the evening of 31 October.…
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TELUS Digital used ElevenLabs’ ElevenAgents to build an outbound AI voice agent that calls new TELUS home internet customers in their first 90 days to explain bills and self-serve tools. In a proof of concept of about 2,300 calls, 30-day cancellations among customers reached were less than half the rate of the wider new-customer cohort, and calls averaged 8.5 out of 10. The agent went live in about six weeks.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on the third-quarter earnings call that the company’s chips business is growing at triple-digit percentages year over year, with revenue commitments for Graviton and Trainium each up more than 20 times. Customers using Amazon’s custom silicon saved more than $2 billion in the quarter. Jassy said Amazon intends to make Trainium available outside AWS late in 2027 and has open-sourced TorchNeuron for running PyTorch code on Trainium.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on the third-quarter earnings call that AWS grew 39.3% year over year, accelerating for a sixth straight quarter, with a backlog of $578 billion. AWS is installing an AI accelerator about every 14 seconds. Jassy said Fortune 500 spending on Amazon Bedrock rose nearly sevenfold and Bedrock token volume nearly 17-fold, while customers deployed twice as many agents on AgentCore in Q3 as in the prior three quarters combined.
Nebius and Positronic Robotics have launched the Physical AI Competition, in which teams train robot models on Nebius AI Cloud and compete in simulation until 13 December. The top 10 will be evaluated on a real Franka robot arm using the DROID setup, with prizes totalling more than $20,000 in GPU and evaluation credits. The organisers say the best open model currently completes about 70% of real-robot DROID tasks.
Breakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute are using agentic AI at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California, where agents can steer the telescope, correct incoming data and apply AI models from a single natural-language request. NVIDIA’s Holoscan platform processes terabits per second of sensor data directly in GPU memory. The pipeline achieved the first real-time AI detection of a pulsar, in the Crab Nebula, and the team is evaluating open models including NVIDIA Nemotron.
QTS Data Centers has committed $150,000 over three years, at $50,000 a year, to the Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation to support the Data Center Operations certificate in Arizona. The certificate, developed with QTS and other data center partners, trains students for entry-level data center jobs; its first cohort finished in fall 2025. QTS operates data centers in the Phoenix area and is developing three local campuses.
DayOne Data Centers and Singapore battery storage firm Blue Whale Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding to study a distributed virtual power plant in Singapore. The concept would link battery storage at DayOne's upcoming SG1 data center with commercial and industrial sites to act as a single flexible grid resource. Initial work includes a front-end engineering design study and assessing participation in Singapore's Demand Response and Interruptible Load programs.
Sabey Data Centers is piloting hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), a renewable diesel, as the primary fuel for backup generators at its Sabey Data Center Austin campus in Texas. The test targets Scope 1 emissions from backup generation and will track the feedstock behind the fuel. HVO can run in existing diesel generators without modification, and Sabey intends to extend testing to other sites if the pilot succeeds.
Digital Realty reported third quarter 2026 revenues of $1.9 billion, up 21% year over year, with Core FFO of $2.10 per share against $1.89 a year earlier. The data center operator signed record bookings expected to generate $855 million of annualized rent at 100% share, lifting its backlog to a record $2.5 billion. It acquired $742 million of land in the quarter and raised its 2026 Core FFO outlook to $8.30 to $8.35 per share.
Singapore-headquartered DayOne Data Centers and Sembcorp Utilities have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore integrating power and energy solutions into DayOne's data center developments across Asia. The companies will evaluate on-site power generation, renewable energy supply, and operations and maintenance services under DayOne's Bring Your Own Power initiative. DayOne targets 100% renewable energy by 2030 and already has a power purchase agreement with Sembcorp for its SG1 data center.
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