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Thursday, July 24, 2025
July 2025
De-aged stars, cloned voices, resuscitated dead icons: AI is changing the art and business of acting (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 07/24/2025 - 06:24President Trump is undermining his own ‘action plan’ for AI, experts say (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 07/24/2025 - 06:24Chairman Carr Applauds President Trump's AI Action Plan (Federal Communications Commission)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Wed, 07/23/2025 - 16:47NTIA's Arielle Roth is now officially in charge of BEAD
Arielle Roth, President Trump’s nominee for National Telecommunications and Information Administration chief, has now officially received the U.S. Senate’s green light to carry out the overhauled $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program. Roth, who works as a policy director for Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the Senate Commerce Committee, was initially tapped for the post in February.
White House Unveils America’s AI Action Plan
The White House released “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan”, in accordance with President Trump’s January executive order on Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI. Winning the AI race will usher in a new golden age of human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security for the American people. The Plan identifies over 90 Federal policy actions across three pillars—Accelerating Innovation, Building American AI Infrastructure, and Leading in International Diplomacy and Security—that the Trump Administration will take in the coming weeks and months.
Starlink Gets Aggressive: Before-and-After BEAD Applicants in Tennessee
Tennessee became one of the first states to announce and publish the list of applicants for its Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program Benefit of the Bargain funding round. As such, Tennessee becomes one of the first states for which we can compare the initial round of BEAD applications—before the new BEAD guidelines were issued by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on June 6—with the applicat
T-Mobile, Comcast, Charter Team Up on Mobile Services for Businesses
Three leaders of the telecommunications industry are collaborating to bulk up their services for business customers. Comcast and Charter Communications have agreed to use T-Mobile’s network to deliver mobile services to their business clients starting in 2026. The deal is expected to expand Charter’s and Comcast’s ability to deliver wireline and wireless offerings. Mobile services will be offered by Charter under its Spectrum Mobile for Business and by Comcast under its Business Mobile brands.
New Street Research: U.S. fiber frenzy could soar to 139 million locations by 2030
All hands are on deck in the fiber broadband race, as operators continue craving expansion and acquisition. Assuming all goes according to plan, New Street Research projects the U.S. fiber industry to reach a collective 139 million locations passed by 2030. The country by then will likely be left with about 55.3 million locations that will offer “adequate returns for fiber investment,” analysts wrote in NSR’s latest Broadband Insights report. Per NSR’s estimates, roughly 86 million U.S.