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June 2026

Sponsor 

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

Date 
Tue, 07/07/2026 - 19:30 to 20:15

Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, would prohibit children under 16 from holding social media accounts unless platforms meet safety standards established by a new regulator. The proposal has quickly become one of Canada's most debated technology policy issues, raising important questions about how governments can best protect young people online.


Sponsor 

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

Date 
Wed, 07/08/2026 - 14:00 to 15:00

Governments around the world are expanding their regulation of online content, raising questions about how foreign speech rules affect Americans and U.S.-based platforms. Laws such as the European Union’s Digital Services Act and the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act have prompted debate over how the United States should respond when foreign governments seek to regulate speech that would be protected under the First Amendment.


Sponsor 

Fiber Broadband Association

Date 
Thu, 06/25/2026 - 12:00

The BEAD program has crossed a critical threshold. After years of planning, feasibility studies, subgrantee selection, and grant negotiations, states and their awarded ISPs are now breaking ground, moving from spreadsheets and proposals into live construction environments. The operational stakes have never been higher. 


Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $25 Billion Deal

Fox Corp. is acquiring Roku in a deal valued at around $25 billion, making a major bet on the future of ad-supported streaming. The deal—Fox’s largest to date—brings together a media company known for its live news and sports programming with the biggest provider of streaming platforms for connected TVs. It will add scale to Fox’s streaming business, currently home to free, ad-supported streaming service Tubi, which the company bought for $400 million in 2020, and subscription-based Fox One and Fox Nation.

On Transparent AI Cyber Protections

We, the undersigned executives and technical leaders from across the United States, write to you to ask you to lift the export control directives on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos large language models and commit to an open, scientific and transparent process of handling AI risk assessments in the future. Not all of us agree that AI regulation is the right way forward. But if this Administration’s laudable goal of securing our nation’s critical infrastructure is going to include models being regulated, then the regulations should be:

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