State Plans Show Us the Cost of Eliminating the Digital Equity Act
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Elon Musk’s Chief Lieutenant at DOGE, Steve Davis, Leaves Agency (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 05/30/2025 - 06:17A Disillusioned Musk, Distanced From Trump, Says He’s Exiting Washington (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 05/30/2025 - 06:16New York Times Company agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon for AI platforms (New York Times)
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Dr. Raul Katz will join CCIA Research Center Director & Chief Economist Trevor Wagener to present his findings and to discuss how this policy shift could reshape the cloud services market for key industry participants as well as consumers.
New Poll Reveals Strong Bipartisan Opposition to Proposed Ban on State AI Laws
Common Sense Media and Echelon Insights released the findings of a new poll showing that Americans across the political spectrum strongly oppose a decade-long ban on state AI safety laws included in the budget reconciliation bill narrowly passed by the House on May 22 and now being considered by the Senate. The key takeaways from the poll include:
Harmonic takes on the MDU broadband challenge with new node
When it comes to deploying broadband to multi-dwelling units, Harmonic thinks it has just what operators need to save time and money on multi-gigabit connectivity. The vendor unveiled SeaStar, an optical node that can deliver speeds “exceeding 8 Gbps downstream and 1.5 Gbps upstream” to up to 16 MDUs. SeaStar is connected via fiber to mini nodes installed at each individual building, those nodes connect directly to the MDU’s existing coax cabling, and voilà.
Powerful Silicon Valley leaders are prioritizing their utopian vision of the future over the concerns of people in the present (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 05/29/2025 - 15:15EchoStar: FCC action creates ‘dark cloud’ of uncertainty
The Federal Communications Commission’s inquiries into EchoStar’s terrestrial wireless and satellite businesses are already harming the company’s plans to succeed as the fourth facilities-based U.S. wireless carrier. That’s what EchoStar told the agency in a nearly 90-page filing. The FCC recently opened public notices about EchoStar’s 5G buildout and its use of the 2 GHz spectrum band for mobile satellite services.