Less than a month after defending his record before the Senate, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is heading back to Capitol Hill.

Carr will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee for another round of oversight next week.

The hearing, scheduled for the morning of January 14, will feature testimony from Carr alongside Commissioners Anna Gomez and Olivia Trusty. Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Richard Hudson (R-NC) said the session will focus on ensuring the Commission “remains focused on the issues that matter most to our constituents.”

Andreessen Horowitz said it raised more than $15 billion in new funds—over 18% of all U.S. venture capital allocated in 2025—boosting assets under management past $90 billion as it doubles down on defense, artificial intelligence and its "American Dynamism" strategy.

Senators from Oregon, Massachusetts and New Mexico urged Apple and Google to suspend X and Grok until Elon Musk curbs AI-generated sexualized images of kids.

OpenAI and SoftBank agreed to invest $1 billion into a SoftBank-backed energy provider as the companies prepare for a massive buildout of AI data centers.

China can narrow its technological gap with the U.S. driven by growing risk-taking and innovation, though the lack of advanced chipmaking tools is hobbling the ​sector, the country's leading artificial intelligence researchers said.

Almost all broadband M&A for 2025 fell into one of two categories. One was private equity investment. The other involved major providers.

'The FCC will help deliver faster, more affordable wireless services and enable a new generation of devices, from AR and VR to innovative smart technologies,' Carr said ahead of Jan. 29 Vote.

Two American frontier governors highlight energy, business climates and federal land control as a strategic advantage.

Meta's Prometheus AI data center is being built in New Albany, Ohio, and will be a 1-gigawatt cluster spanning spanning multiple buildings.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2026 – The Supreme Court decided Friday it will weigh in on whether the Federal Communications Commission’s process for issuing fines is unconstitutional.

Both the FCC and telecom carriers challenging their fines have asked the high court to resolve a circuit split on the issue. Those cases were consolidated.

The nation's biggest power market has to find a way to prevent data centers from driving up electricity costs. A new report has a solution.

The FCC will soon vote to beef up Wi-Fi in the 6GHz band and a new 'GVP' device category.

In a move that's likely being cheered by Apple, Meta and Google, the FCC will soon vote to beef up Wi-Fi in the 6GHz band and a new 'GVP' category that would feature connected wearables, including AR and VR devices.

Local governments and industry trade groups are divided on what the FCC can and should do to reform wireline permitting, according to public filings.

• Across Las Vegas this week, tech companies used the CES trade show to reveal their visions of a future filled with physical artificial intelligence.
• Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm made splashy robot-related announcements, and Google’s DeepMind said it would work with Boston Dynamics, to develop new AI models for its Atlas robot.
• “The humanoid industry is riding on the work of the AI factories we’re building for other AI stuff,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at a news conference.

It’s the week Sin City turned sci-fi.

Humanoid robots shadowboxed, danced and pretended to run small shops. Singapore-based Sharpa displayed a robotic hand playing table tennis and dealing blackjack hands.

Across Las Vegas, technology companies used the annual CES trade show to reveal their visions of the future and to loudly proclaim that physical artificial intelligence is poised for a breakout year.

“The humanoid industry is riding on the work of the AI factories we’re building for other AI stuff,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at a news conference on Tuesday.

The move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexualized content on the app.

The government is urging Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.

Nvidia and various auto suppliers are forming strategic partnerships to overcome challenges and accelerate the development of self-driving vehicles, amid skepticism from established automakers regarding fully autonomous technology.

The role of AI and evolving partnerships aims to reshape the autonomous driving landscape.

Most states are now on the same schedule for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, which means new announcements of provisional BEAD awards for the “Benefit of the Bargain” BEAD round are being made regularly.

The “Benefit of the Bargain” round, established by the revised BEAD guidelines issued on June 6, originally called for all states to have their final proposals to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) by September 4, following a brief period of public comment.

Each state — and Washington, D.C. — is shown below with their provisional awards; the awards shown below reflect each state’s initial provisionally announced awards, not their final proposal to NTIA. Each state’s award list is arranged in order from the most money awarded to the least. Telecompetitor will update this list until all BEAD Benefit of the Bargain provisional awards have been announced. Last updated: Wednesday, December 3, 8:00 a.m. Pacific time.

Makan Delrahim, Paramount Skydance's top lawyer, submitted fiery testimony to a House Judiciary panel that was posted after a hearing called 'Full Stream Ahead: Competition and Consumer Choice'

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2026 – The Federal Communications Commission on Friday approved SpaceX’s request to launch an additional 7,500 of its Starlink Gen2 satellites, bringing the total allowed Gen2 constellation to 15,000.

JEFFERSON CITY, MO – Governor Mike Kehoe and the Department of Economic Development’s (DED) Office of Broadband Development (OBD) announced Thursday that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has approved Missouri’s plan to award more than $814 million to bring high-speed internet to more than 200,000 unserved and underserved locations across the state.

On December 16, 2025, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a legal opinion finding that the National Telecommunication and Information Administration’s (NTIA) June 6, 2025, BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice (policy notice) – guidance that overhauled the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program – is a “rule” subject to the Congressional Review Act (CRA).

Under the CRA, no rule can take effect until it is submitted to Congress and the Comptroller General (the director of GAO). GAO concluded NTIA failed to follow this procedure, meaning the “Benefit of the Bargain” reforms announced in June cannot legally take effect until Congress is formally notified and given a chance to review.

Late yesterday, the NTIA posted summaries on BEAD final proposal approvals for Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Nevada. This means that 39 states and 3 territories are either in or completed the NIST Ts&Cs process.

Only one notable change from draft to final approved is Maryland’s Fiber-to-HFC mix. Fiber went up from 30.72% to 44.00% and HFC went down from 43.90% to 32.20%.

The latest five approved state statistics are below. Final allocation numbers are consistent with originally proposed numbers with exceptions highlighted below where the change was >5% in yellow.