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Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia's AI chip dominance? Maybe not entirely, but Amazon is already making big bucks trying.

Regulatory capture is at the root of the affordability crisis in electricity. Public power could offer a way out.

A company looking to build a high-speed internet line under Lake Michigan.. gets the greenlight to build in Benton Harbor.According to our reporting partners at

The Internet Society published a blog by Isabel Suizo of Carnegie Mellon University that looks at Starlink’s impact on digital equity. The blog made three interesting points about Starlink. First, Starlink is not meeting the regulatory performance goals in the U.S., the EU, and Australia. The blog cites speed tests from M-Labs that show that…

Corporations are asking the Supreme Court to help them dismantle a groundbreaking California transparency law requiring emissions disclosure.

Tech companies are pouring billions into AI chips and data centers. Increasingly, they are relying on debt and risky tactics. Financial analysts are worried there's a bubble that will soon pop.

Consumers are spending more money on subscription streaming services, paying on average $70 a month in October, compared with $48 monthly just one year ago, according to consulting firm Deloitte.

On November 21, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) notified staff that it will restart supervision and require examiners, beginning

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1.  Purpose. From the founding of our Republic, scientific discovery and technological innovation have driven American progress and prosperity.  

Today, America is in a race for global technology dominance in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), an important frontier of scientific discovery and economic growth.  To that end, my Administration has taken a number of actions to win that race, including issuing multiple Executive Orders and implementing America’s AI Action Plan, which recognizes the need to invest in AI-enabled science to accelerate scientific advancement. 

In this pivotal moment, the challenges we face require a historic national effort, comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project that was instrumental to our victory in World War II and was a critical basis for the foundation of the Department of Energy (DOE) and its national laboratories.

KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Brandon Nispel recently said in an industry report that “There are reasons to believe that cable is permanently impaired.” By that, he believes that cable companies are going to continue to lose broadband customers as they compete with fiber and FWA cellular wireless. The problem that cable companies are experiencing stems…

Last night, California posted its BEAD Final Proposal for comment before submission to the NTIA on December 9.

As we are wading through final final proposals, let’s take a look at the proposed numbers from California, the last state to submit.

A U.S. Congressional bill, H.R. 2289, would remove historic and environmental reviews for cell tower and wireless facilities - ignoring the growing science on cell tower health effects.

It’s clear that federal funding for digital inclusion activities is dead. NTIA and the Administration killed the funding for the Digital Equity Act, and it’s looking increasingly certain that NTIA is going to kill most or all of the BEAD non-deployment funds. These two sources of funding were going to be used to get a…

AT&T recently agreed to purchase the 3.45 GHz spectrum from EchoStar and was able to deploy the new spectrum in 23,000 AT&T cell sites in a matter of weeks. The company will use this spectrum to beef up 5G speeds and to also power its FWA cellular home broadband product it markets as AT&T Air.…

OpenAI's CEO is reportedly pushing for improvements to ChatGPT and delaying plans to integrate ads on its platform, after Google’s strong showing with Gemini 3.

Telecompetitor recently published an article that cited concerns from analysts at MoffettNathanson Research that wonder about the way spectrum is being allocated for FWA home cellular broadband. It turns out that the big cellular carriers are devoting a huge amount of network resources to FWA while reaping only small financial benefits. FWA use may already…

A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.

Ranking Member Pallone delivered the following opening remarks at today's Communications and Technology Subcommittee markup of seven bills.

Ernst bill would send broadband grant money to Treasury for deficit reduction.

BREAKING: White House action could have dramatic impact on the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program