The recently-enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will increase borrowing by $4.1 trillion through 2034 on a conventional basis, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

This includes $5.9 trillion of tax cuts and spending increases, $2.5 trillion of offsets, and over $700 billion of interest costs.

On a permanent basis, we estimate the law will add over $5.5 trillion to the debt through 2034.

Arielle Roth has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to lead up the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

A California lawmaker reportedly dropped her push to cap charges for low-income subscribers after the state's BEAD funds were threatened.

A bill authored by Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) would stop companies from setting individualized prices and wages based on spy dossiers they assemble on Americans.

Continuing to Connect Wisconsin: Strategies for Statewide Broadband Access As the nationwide broadband expansion accelerates under the federal BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) program, Wisconsin is emerging as a model of efficiency and commitment—facing unique geographic challenges, underserved locations, and a tight budget with strategic precision. In a recent…

U.S. | Assuming deployments go according to plan, New Street projects operators to reach a combined 139 million total passings by the end of the decade.

New tools from OpenAI and Perplexity can browse the web for you. If the idea takes off, these generative AI agents could turn the internet into a ghost town where only bots roam.

The ‘Benefit of the Bargain’ round is underway in 48 states and territories

Infostealer data can include passwords, email and billing addresses, and the embarrassing websites you use. Farnsworth Intelligence is selling to divorce lawyers and other industries.

Axel Springer, owner of Politico, Business Insider, Bild and Welt, is going all in on artificial intelligence (AI). 

“Nobody in the company has to explain in the company why she or he is using AI to do something — whether to prepare a presentation or analyze a document,” said CEO Mathias Döpfner during an hour-long all-employee meeting last week, Status  reports. “You only have to explain if you didn’t use AI. That’s really something you have to explain because that shouldn’t happen.” 

Döpfner also lauded the development of AI.  

Three Michigan-based companies have completed a 90-mile underground fiber optic route linking Southfield to Lansing.

A movement that wanted to merge North America into one nation and extend its borders as far as the Panama Canal might sound incredibly familiar. But this group, called the “technocracy movement”, was a group of 1930s nonconformists with big ideas about how to rearrange US society. They proposed a vision that would get rid of waste and make North America highly productive by using technology and science.

The Technocrats, sometimes also called Technocracy Inc, proposed merging Canada, Greenland, Mexico, the US and parts of central America into a single continental unit. This they called a “Technate”. It was to be governed by technocratic principles, rather than by national borders and traditional political divisions.

These ideas seem to resonate with some recent statements from the Trump administration about merging the US with Canada. Meanwhile, the US Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) set up by Trump and led by tech billionaire Elon Musk, has also outlined a vision of efficiency cuts by slashing bureaucracy, jobs and getting rid of leaders of organisations and civil servants he thinks are advancing “woke” values (such as diversity initiatives). This slash-and-burn approach also fits with some of the ideas of the Technocrats.

In February, Musk said: “We really have here rule of the bureaucracy as opposed to rule of the people — democracy”. The Technocrats viewed elected politicians as incompetent. They advocated replacing them with experts in science and engineering, who would “objectively” manage resources for the benefit of society.

“The people voted for major government reform, and that’s what the people are going to get,” Musk told reporters after visiting the White House last month.

T-Mobile is rolling out its Starlink-powered satellite service, T-Satellite, which will let customers with supported devices send text messages and share their location without cellular service.

Yes, generative AI is transformational. Will it eliminate most entry-level jobs? That depends. Will we continue to demand excessive returns on capital? If so, then we're in trouble.

The US system to track vulnerabilities is struggling to keep up with its backlog. Experts are scrambling to assemble alternatives.

A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is letting clients essentially bet that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will be struck down in court.

PHOENIX, AZ (July 22, 2025) – Today, local internet and government partners announced a milestone to expand broadband access and connectivity in Arizona.

 eX² Technology, a Vivacity company and a single source solution for those seeking to build, scale or future proof their communications infrastructure, in partnership with the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and the Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA), successfully executed the first dark fiber Indefeasible Right of Use agreement along ADOT’s I-17 right of way.

As part of the Arizona Statewide Middle-Mile Program,  the significant dark fiber Indefeasible Right of Use transaction marks a meaningful step forward in leveraging public infrastructure to deliver long-term, high-capacity connectivity across the State of Arizona. 

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.

"The removal of Ms. Slaughter was blatantly unlawful," U.S. District Court Judge Loren AliKhan in Washington, D.C. wrote in a ruling issued late Thursday. The Justice Department is appealing.