Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming woven into the everyday lives of American kids. For advocates in the youth education space, there aren't enough safeguards for the AI platforms kids are using. The 2026 Common Sense Media Census: AI Teens and Tweens is the first in a series of studies intended to track young people’s experiences with AI over time.
Apparently, President Trump plans to nominate a tech critic and telecommunications lawyer, Adam Candeub, to lead the antitrust division at the Department of Justice. Candeub, the general counsel at the Federal Communications Commission, was an author of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a road map of policy conservative proposals created for the Trump administration. In his chapter for Project 2025 on the FTC, Candeub criticized big tech companies for impeding free speech online, listing “the interference of larg
Stanley Woodward, a top Justice Department official, has told antitrust enforcers he prefers they stop taking cases to trial and settle them instead. Some lawyers at the department interpreted the comments from the department’s third-ranking official as a directive to resolve any litigation against companies and avoid future litigation. Woodward, who now directly oversees antitrust enforcement, has said internally that he favors avoiding drawn-out, manpower-intensive litigation. Woodward’s posture could weaken the department’s ability to challenge anticompetitive mergers and could put settl
Friday, June 26, 2026
Lawmakers across the nation are increasingly looking to a new tool to protect people’s personal data online: A public repository of the companies collecting, selling and sharing people’s phone numbers, addresses, and shopping habits. Four states currently have laws on the books requiring so-called data brokers—the companies that collect and sell millions of people’s information—to register in a public database, serving as a directory for people to send data deletion requests and potential targets for enforcers.
The Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules to unleash submarine cable deployment for the United States. Submarine cable systems move the vast majority of the world’s internet traffic and strengthen the nation’s capacity to maintain secure, dependable communications across consumer, commercial, and defense sectors. The new rules adopted will speed up the rollout of submarine cables—the backbone and unsung heroes of the global internet. They also support the essential capacity for the increasing computing demands and connectivity for artificial intelligence.
The Federal Communications Commission adopted rules to modernize the Emergency Alerting System and preserve the public’s trust in EAS by requiring targeted cybersecurity improvements that will protect against hijacking by cybercriminals and our nation’s adversaries. In addition, the Commission will move forward with a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that seeks comment on additional ways to modernize EAS and Wireless Emergency Alerts, from bolstering reliability to improving geographic accuracy.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said that ABC is running a “campaign of misinformation” about the regulatory agency’s inquiry into the network’s daytime talk show “The View.” Disney’s ABC recently launched a campaign in opposition to the FCC’s investigation into whether “The View” should be subject to its “equal time” rules, which requir
More local governments and state agencies in New Mexico will soon be able to provide public Wi-Fi access because of $6 million in U.S. Treasury Department funding for a new community broadband program. The Office of Broadband Access and Expansion launched the New Mexico Community Wi-Fi Digital Connectivity Technology Project, a new program designed to expand and deploy public Wi-Fi in local communities.
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