The Milken Institute Global Conference gathered top players in business, technology, and politics at a chaotic moment for the global business ecosystem. POLITICO’s Tyler Katzenberger cornered some big names in industry and government to ask them the question on everyone’s mind: What’s the biggest threat to the future for tech?
Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) said, “On the same day Senate Republicans voted to strip internet access from students and educators, President Trump is illegally attempting to end a program that connects millions of people to the online world. In New Mexico, we know the difference between slow internet, fast internet, and no internet and the challenges that come with it. Our students, seniors, veterans, and small businesses rely on internet access for education, health care, economic opportunity, and public safety. President Trump is leaving our communities in the dark.
Time to get the popcorn out while we take a stroll through the latest in the war of the terrestrial wireless industry vs. Elon Musk and his space-based friends. The battle rose to the surface recently when Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr launched a formal inquiry to study new ways of making use of 220 megahertz of spectrum in the upper C-band.
Sens Todd Young (R-IN) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced the Artificial Intelligence Public Awareness and Education Campaign Act, legislation to help raise awareness and boost public trust in artificial intelligence.
Reps Randy Feenstra (R-IA) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) introduced the Precision Agriculture Loan Program Act, which would establish the first-ever federal precision agriculture loan program in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency. More specifically, this legislation would offer loans up to $500,000 between 3 and 12 years in length at interest rates of less than 2 percent and create a list of acceptable precision agriculture technologies approved by the Farm Service Agency and covered by the USDA.
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