The lead package · Digital Frontiers
Three countries.
Three networks.
One unfinished connection.
Papua New Guinea, Guyana, and São Tomé and Príncipe show that landing a cable or lighting a backbone is only the beginning. The harder work is local: reach, affordability, power, accountability and resilience.
Every number is dated and linked to a primary source. Route diagrams are original Ewing Journal schematics, not copied cable maps. Planned interviews are labeled as planned.
This week’s three
Open one country. Read the complete story.
Each article includes its own data visual, traffic schematic, official media docket, interview plan and source list.
Capacity arrived. Can the last mile catch up?
6.5 million mobile subscriptions reported for 2024, compared with 3.28 million in 2020. Subscriptions are not unique people.
Read the full investigation → 02GuyanaKeeping local traffic closer to home
The country’s first internet exchange point launched in May 2025. The reporting asks what local routing changes—and what it does not.
Read the full investigation → 03São Tomé & PríncipeOne cable transformed access. One island still waits.
The latest World Bank implementation record reviewed for this issue sets a June 2027 operational target for the planned Príncipe cable. A target is not completion.
Read the full investigation →New technology desk
Three AI stories. Three different systems.
Markets, law and infrastructure belong together—but not blended together. Each article opens with its own primary records, data visual and clearly labeled limits.
The AI trade is an infrastructure bet.
$75.246 billionData Center revenue in NVIDIA’s quarter ended April 26, 2026. The number is dated, sourced and not investment advice.
Read the full market story → 02AI LawWho gets to write the rules?
California’s enacted frontier-model law meets a federal executive and litigation strategy. Their legal status is not interchangeable.
Read the full legal story → 03AI TechnologyThe model is only the visible layer.
Chips, networking, servers, cooling and power sit beneath every prompt. Berkeley Lab’s 2030 scenarios show the possible scale.
Read the full technology story →This week in sports · August 13
Preseason begins.
College football is next.
NFL Preseason Week 1 runs Aug. 13–16. The NCAA season begins Aug. 27, with most Division I programs opening the following week. The command center follows every Cal program alongside women’s and men’s basketball, world soccer, NBA, WNBA, MLB, golf, tennis, Formula 1, NASCAR and other consequential sports news.
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Rounding 3rd · Weekly Dodgers journal
The sweep that reset the week.
Los Angeles swept Kansas City from Aug. 10–12 and won Wednesday’s finale 4–2. This week’s lens centers Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy and Yoshinobu Yamamoto—with official MLB recaps, SportsNet LA and AM 570 access.
Dodger Stadium photograph · Tom Woodward / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Cropped for display.
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