An undersea fiber break was repaired in Alaska, pointing to concerns over GCI outages and subsea connectivity.

One of the weird tasks I had as a librarian was writing a disaster recovery (aka continuity) plan for the collection. So, I always think a little bit about recovery. We are so reliant on broadband, I found the following video from NCTA interesting… https://youtu.be/32pCPoRUBmk?si=K5f02Xvu5rAr0HdL Description from NCTA When natural disasters strike, the connections communities…

Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.

In December, on a two-lane road not far from the ACE Basin, a protected ecosystem and wildlife refuge in South Carolina, Paul Black drove past St. Paul AME Church and the cemetery where his wife’s grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-grandmother are buried, then slowed as the trees opened onto the piney tract.

Black is an environmental activist who has spent years fighting polluting projects across the South. But now he and Black residents in the rural South Carolina community are bracing for a new fight: to stop a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields.

• 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.

The calendar reads June 13, 2025, but I'm getting flashbacks to December 1977. As Israeli fighter jets strike Iranian nuclear facilities and President Trump calls Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell a "$600 billion numbskull," we're witnessing a dangerous historical parallel to the Carter-Burns-Miller transition that helped create the Great Inflation. Yet today's constraints—with federal debt…

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.