Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream

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.

President Joe Biden’s White House is racing to secure its legacy ahead of November’s elections — in large part by doubling down on the future.

In a reporting project published today, a team of POLITICO reporters broke down the massive, trillion-plus-dollar budget commitment made by the Biden administration and Congress to America’s infrastructure — a vast expenditure that could help his presidential campaign, if Americans actually get the money.

That seems to be the hard part.

Looking at the 2021 pandemic recovery and infrastructure bills, 2022’s CHIPS and Science Act and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, the reporters found that less than 17 percent of the $1.1 trillion allocated in those laws has actually been spent.

And despite the recent fanfare around a series of announced grants for advanced semiconductor manufacturing, the CHIPS and Science Act was one of the major laggards.

Prosecutors are combing subpoenaed materials for evidence Tesla knowingly misled.

In part two of a reporting series on AI and democracy published today by POLITICO, chief tech correspondent Mark Scott and colleagues take a closer look at how new digital tools are shaping geopolitics ahead of this year’s elections in America and across the globe.

This election season could be one of the most important of the young century, with not only the U.S. presidency at stake but control of India, South Africa and the European Union, all amid a global reconfiguration of the media landscape wrought by AI.

The risk is especially acute amid one of the modern world’s most stubborn conflicts: The efforts by post-Soviet republics to establish their independence in the shadow of the Cold War.

Mark reports on Russia’s AI-powered propaganda campaign in Moldova, where a pro-Western government is fending off efforts to drive the country away from Europe ahead of an October referendum on joining the European Union.

Nearly $2 million in funding will benefit residents across the greater Chattanooga region through a grant awarded to The Enterprise Center for its Tech Goes Home program t

As federal ACP support wanes, state broadband subsidy solutions in New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia offer innovative solutions to maintain connectivity.

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.

Kyle Chayka writes about why taking the social-media platform TikTok away from American users will not help contain the habits that it has unleashed.

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TikTok sued Tuesday to block a US law that could force a nationwide ban of the popular app, following through on legal threats the company issued after President Joe Biden signed the legislation last month.

Utah Senator Mitt Romney revealed the motivation for the bipartisan consensus to ban TikTok, and it has little to do with protecting users’ data.

Speaking at the McCain Institute on Friday alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Romney lamented Israel’s inability to control the flow of information out of and about Gaza, despite its best efforts to restrict press access.

“I mean, typically the Israelis are good at P.R. What’s happened here? How have they—how have they, and we, been so ineffective at communicating the realities there and our point of view?” Romney asked Blinken, seemingly in disbelief that images of Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza have prompted outrage in the United States.

Then Romney explained that the TikTok ban overwhelmingly passed both chambers of Congress because of the widespread Palestinian advocacy on the app.

Meta Platforms is urging a federal appellate court to reconsider a recent 2-1 decision allowing Facebook advertisers to proceed with a class-action fraud lawsuit over inflated metrics.

Thousands of Texans rely on Joe Biden's Affordable Connectivity Program to pay for high-speed internet access. Congress must extend the program before it ends.