Virginia’s Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Norfolk Southern in a fight over broadband companies’ ability to build across rail lines. The court found that a 2023 law allowing broadband companies to “take railroad property for nonpublic use” violates a provision in the state constitution and a separate state law addressing eminent domain.
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Although much of the recent focus regarding the press being under siege has been on President Trump’s Federal Communications Commission, FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez cited “an administration-wide effort” involving multiple agencies intended “to chill speech” and stifle dissenting voices. With the FCC under Trump’s handpicked Chairman, Brendan Carr, Commissioner Gomez has few avenues to formally push back against the Republican majority.
For about 15 percent of US households as of 2023, the only internet options are crappy, especially in rural areas. But thanks to the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program, which aims to connect everyone in the US to high-quality, mostly fiber-based internet, that’s close to changing.
Agentic AI has quickly become one of the most active areas of artificial intelligence development. AI agents are a level of programming on top of large language models that allow them to work towards specific goals. Perhaps the most exciting future for agentic AI will come in the form of personal agents, which can take self-directed action on your behalf.
Just days after the new pope, Leo XIV, took up his position as head of the Catholic Church, he started talking about artificial intelligence.
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