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Spain’s Wildfires Put Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell Network to the Test

The devastating fires affecting the provinces of Madrid, Ávila and Toledo have scorched more than 77,000 hectares and left tens of thousands of people affected. The lack of mobile coverage is also preventing those affected from communicating with family and loved ones.

The flames have destroyed masts and fibre-optic cables, cutting off entire communities and hampering emergency response efforts. In light of this critical situation, Starlink has activated its direct satellite connectivity service for emergencies in Spain for the first time.

This measure has been made possible by an agreement between the Ministry for Digital Transformation (Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública), Movistar, MasOrange and Starlink, which has allowed terrestrial mobile frequencies to be used from space.

Elon Musk’s company confirmed on its official X accountthat “Starlink Mobile is providing free connectivity to MasOrange and Movistar customers in the regions affected by the wildfires near...

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Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router

Corporate expense management platform Ramp is hot on the heels of Stripe in setting up toll houses for AI inference. Ramp on Wednesday evening launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models through an API. The

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FDA considers doctor-like ‘competency-based’ tests for medical generative AI

Westy72/Getty Images ByChristian Robles, Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 20, 2026 12:42 PM ET The Trump administration released ideas for regulating large language models used in health care as companies roll out chatbots to help patients manage mental health, diabetes and other medical conditions. * FDA * Health Tech The

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Boon for Boomers, Bane for Power Users: Google Starts Rolling Out New Android Sideloading Rules

Google is gradually rolling out its controversial new Advanced Flow for installing apps from developers who haven't finished identity verification. When Google first started looking at changing Android's app verification rules last year, users feared that they'd no longer have the option to sideload

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Authoring Dogwood policies from natural language in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Amazon Web Services

AI agents can automate complex workflows but might take actions that don’t align with your organization’s policies or regulatory constraints if used without proper controls. To address this, we built Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore so teams can implement controls that are applied across agents running in Amazon

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Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router

FDA considers doctor-like ‘competency-based’ tests for medical generative AI

Boon for Boomers, Bane for Power Users: Google Starts Rolling Out New Android Sideloading Rules

Authoring Dogwood policies from natural language in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Amazon Web Services