Daily Digest 5/9/2025 (Digital Equity Act)
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Benton Editorial
Benton Editorial
AI execs used to beg for regulation. Not anymore.
Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, warned at a Senate hearing that requiring government approval to release powerful artificial intelligence software would be “disastrous” for the United States’ lead in the technology. It was a striking reversal after his comments at a Senate hearing two years ago, when he listed creating a new agency to license the technology as his “number one” recommendation for making sure AI was safe.
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 05:57Trump’s Order to Sanitize Black History Meets Institutional Resistance (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 05:57Chairman Carr Applauds Senate Action to Reverse Biden FCC's E-Rate Hotspot Rule (Federal Communications Commission)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 05:56Even with DOGE cuts, the U.S. has spent $166 billion more than last year (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 05/09/2025 - 05:55Kentucky’s middle-mile network is set to go dark, disconnecting thousands of residents
Thousands of Kentucky residents could lose internet access in the coming weeks after KentuckyWired, the state’s open-access middle-mile broadband network, cancelled its contract with the network’s administrator. In mid-April, internet service providers in Kentucky began receiving a 30-day disconnection notice from KentuckyWired and the agency that oversees the network, the Kentucky Communications Network Authority.