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The areas Digital Plumber covers each day, and how much each is moving. Arrows compare the last 7 days with the 7 before.

Topic	7 days	30 days	All time	Latest
Telco & Cable AI	16 up from 9	39	94	Comcast correlates network alarms with AI agents at 90% accuracy Oct 5
AI Industry & Policy	12 down from 17	59	208	Collibra buys Trail ML as agent governance demand grows Oct 5
Network Security	12 up from 7	37	133	Fortinet FortiMail zero-day exploited with federal fix deadline Oct 5
Agentic AI & MCP	8 down from 14	43	198	Agentic NetOps moves from alerting to autonomous action Oct 4
Data Center & AI Networking	6 up from 5	19	112	HPE lifts AI networking order target to $3 billion Oct 3
Routing & Internet	6 up from 0	6	6	Philippines subsea cable cut rerouted within hours without full outage Oct 5
Research, Standards & Industry	5 down from 12	43	169	IETF draft proposes governance for AI-run network devices Oct 3
AI Model Providers	5 down from 12	29	148	Anthropic spends $100M to train 10,000 deployment engineers Oct 4
Network Automation	5 down from 8	20	92	NetBox 4.7.2 adds InfiniBand interface types and cable hooks Oct 4
AIOps & Network Observability	5 up from 3	14	77	ThousandEyes adds agent-driven investigation and recommended remediation actions Oct 5