With mere days until the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) runs out of funds, Congress is considering several ways to save the program. But a funding lapse is almost guaranteed, and a path to saving ACP is still murky.

The Chinese-owned app is in serious trouble in Washington, but a survey of US creators suggests TikTok’s influencer economy is carrying on with business as usual.

Hello, and welcome to this week’s installment of The Future In Five Questions. I recently sat down with Matt Carter, a longtime tech and telecom executive who is now CEO of emergency communications company Intrado. Carter is at the center of debates in the U.S. around upgrading the 911 system — a key piece of national infrastructure that lawmakers are debating how to bring into a higher-tech era.

Today, Carter discusses those possible changes alongside the potential risks posed by artificial intelligence and the promise of converging satellite and telecom companies. The following has been condensed and edited for clarity.

The company’s C.E.O. bet it all on a new kind of chip, Stephen Witt writes. Now that Nvidia is one of the biggest companies in the world, what will he do next?

FCC broadband map processes were overhauled in 2022. The commission now wants to tweak the processes based on what it learned.

Without new rules, campaigns could hoodwink voters with AI-generated ads. And no one really seems to be taking the threat seriously.

“Google as an illegal monopolist will have to pay some penalties,” US federal judge James Donato said Thursday, in a hearing discussing next steps after a jury found the company breached antitrust laws.

Minnesota this week eliminated two laws that made it harder for cities and towns to build their own broadband networks. The state-imposed restrictions were repealed in an omnibus commerce policy bill signed on Tuesday by Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat.

Minnesota was previously one of about 20 states that imposed significant restrictions on municipal broadband. The number can differ depending on who's counting because of disagreements over what counts as a significant restriction. But the list has gotten smaller in recent years because states including Arkansas, Colorado, and Washington repealed laws that hindered municipal broadband.

The Minnesota bill enacted this week struck down a requirement that municipal telecommunications networks be approved in an election with 65 percent of the vote. The law is over a century old, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance's Community Broadband Network Initiative wrote yesterday.

OpenAI's efforts to produce less factually false output from its ChatGPT chatbot are not enough to ensure full compliance with European Union data rules, a task force at the EU's privacy watchdog said.

To make matters worse, programmers in the study would often overlook the misinformation.

The American Privacy Rights Act, already revised since it was unveiled last month, will now move to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which could make additional changes.

Carr calls the effort “as misguided as it is unlawful” and said it would "do more harm than good"

U.S. News and World Report published the results of a new broadband survey in April that concentrated on what people are paying for broadband. The survey was administered to 2,500 people nationwide and asked about prices paid for broadband, service reliability, and overall satisfaction with their ISP. The survey had some interesting findings: The survey…

US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo says the US is collaborating with other countries, including the UK, Japan, and Canada, to manage the risks posed by artificial intelligence.