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The Biden administration is poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard U.S. AI from China and Russia with preliminary plans to place guardrails around the most advanced AI models, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

A cryptocurrency nonprofit has launched a new political action committee (PAC) to raise money from its 440,000 members for crypto-friendly politicians, and is endorsing a bipartisan slate of candidates running in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Ad industry groups said the law includes "the most onerous and restrictive approach to data privacy in the United States to date."

Hiawatha Broadband Communications, Inc, (HBC) announces Multi-Gig Flight Fiber Internet is now available in Farmington, MN.

Blind and low-vision people have experienced remarkable gains in information literacy because of digital technologies, like being able to access an online library offering more than 1.2 million books that can be translated into text-to-speech or digital Braille. But it can be a lot harder t

According to a report just released by the Pew Research Center, there are now 64 million American living in multigenerational homes. Pew’s definition of a multigenerational home is one that has adults of different generations over 25 years old living under the same roof. The age was set to 25 to exclude college students living…

According to The Wall Street Journal, T-Mobile is looking to buy $2 billion worth of UScellular in a deal that could be announced this month. Verizon, meanwhile, is considering a deal for some of the rest.

Every time I read something about the broadband industry, there's some mention of speeds, and most of the conversation revolves around meeting "minimum" threshold levels. Even though that's an important and worthwhile discussion, I want to bring to your attention something different when you think a

The company will be ponying up a few billion to bring the facility back from the dead.

The ACP provided a broadband subsidy for millions of Americans. Now Congress has a plan to reinstate it.

Amid an ongoing debate over spectrum in the lower 3GHz band, speakers this week at a US wireless industry event – including two members of the House – urged Congress to act.

Altice USA's mobile roadmap includes support for tablets and smart watches and a device protection program. The company added 29,300 mobile lines in Q1, up from just 7,600 a year earlier, but continued to shed broadband subs.

Warren County recently received an encouraging report from the North Carolina Department of Information Technology’s Broadband Infrastructure Office.

Warren County Community & Economic Development Director Charla Duncan told county commissioners Monday night that broadband internet provider Brightspeed will be able to serve part of the area previously covered by a grant awarded to provider Zitel.

Elon Musk's X has policies to take down harmful content when it chooses but should not be allowed to overrule Australian law in deciding what can be viewed there, a lawyer for the cyber regulator told a hearing into video of a bishop being stabbed.

Rural America has lost over half a million farms in the past 40 years, increasing the need for connectivity to support the nation's agriculture.

Great Plains Communications has announced a new fiber network expansion that will reach over 5,000 homes and businesses in rural and urban stretches of Nebraska.

Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC) president Madeleine Noland recently reminded the standards body’s membership that “every technology transition has its challenges.”

Indeed, 2023 was perhaps the most challenging year for the ATSC 3.0 standard overall. But she was specifically speaking of LG's decision last fall to stop including ASTC 3.0 tuners in future OLED smart TV sets after the company lost a relatively small patent case against Maryland-based tech company Constellation Designs.

Since that time, ATSC 3.0 has enjoyed a steady drumbeat of progress, with stations in Chicago, Detroit and San Antonio launching NextGen TV broadcasts, smart TV giant TCL integrating ATSC 3.0 into its sets, and UK music video service Roxi working with Sinclair Broadcast Group to launch ATSC 3.0 channels. 

Does ATSC 3.0 finally have momentum?

Verizon said it's now supporting neutral host networks. But the company isn't doing so in the same way as T-Mobile and AT&T, which has prompted some concerns among companies in the sector.

Lawmakers had hoped to use the bill as a vehicle for securing funding for the program.

Tesla’s gigafactory in Germany will temporarily pause production as a group of protesters encamped in the surrounding forest have ramped up their efforts to stop the company’s expansion.

A new bipartisan amendment would attach funds for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and rip-and-replace program to a broader must-pass FAA bill. There is now 'a material chance' the ACP gets extended, said Blair Levin.

The tool, called Media Manager, will allow creators and content owners to identify their works to OpenAI and specify how they want those works to be included or excluded from AI research and training.