Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed an executive order establishing a statewide review process and public dashboard for large data center projects, joining Virginia in a regional push to tighten oversight …
A September 2026 paper proposes a six-level scale of physical generality, P0 to P5, and places the field at the boundary between P2 and P3, with the best systems reaching 56% zero-shot success on hous…
President Trump said in a Sept. 19 Truth Social post that he will not allow AI's "decimation or destruction" and announced plans to create an "AI Force" run by an AI Czar, writing "Only High I.Q. indi…
The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously ratified California's billion-dollar BEAD broadband expansion plan at its voting meeting on Thursday, September 17, 2026, authorizing staff to si…
Eleven AI bills cleared committee in the House this summer, but none has reached the House floor for a vote, according to Broadband Breakfast. One of the measures would impose transparency, incident-r…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on September 30 on proposals to unlock more than 1,000MHz of spectrum in the 12GHz and 42GHz bands for satellite broadband and to modernize u…
At IFA 2026, Anker sub-brand Eufy announced the Robot Lawnmower S2 Max, a fully autonomous robotic mower with an edge-trimming arm, a 48 TOPS processor for onboard AI, and support for slopes up to 80%…
SpaceX plans to launch its first AI-focused orbital data centers in the fourth quarter of 2027, moving up its previous 2028 timetable, and has asked the FCC for authority to deploy up to one million A…
Zayo has reached a long-term fiber supply agreement with Corning to secure 'a significant portion' of the fiber it projects it will need through the rest of the decade, as announced Thursday. The comp…
SpaceX's proposal for a 1-million-satellite AI data center megaconstellation would create a new category of e-waste, with about 200,000 satellites decommissioned annually due to a five-year GPU lifesp…
A panel at the Technology Policy Institute Aspen Forum highlighted that space startups may answer to as many as seven US agencies, including the FCC, Department of Commerce, NOAA, Department of Defens…
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree surged 460% in its Shanghai IPO on Wednesday, raising 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in the first mainland China robotics public debut. The Hangzhou-based firm, b…
Voice cloning technology has made grandparent scams more convincing, with open-source models like Bark allowing anyone to clone a voice in under two minutes, according to a first-person account. The a…
The US-China tech war is expanding beyond semiconductor chips to include optical transceivers, small devices essential for AI data centres and cloud networks, after the FCC proposed a ban on Chinese-m…
Sonos is developing the Sonos Ace Ultra, a premium follow-up to its 2024 Ace headphones, with an FCC filing spotted Monday indicating up to five color options and possible voice command support, accor…
Republican FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty said Monday that satellite broadband is complementing, not replacing, fiber networks, pushing back on the idea that Starlink and other low-Earth orbit service…
The FCC is preparing restrictions on Chinese optical transceivers, causing shares of Zhongji Innolight and Eoptolink to briefly fall nearly 10% in a single day, though Coherent's factory in Wuxi compl…
Proof News found evidence of at least 21 security robot deployments since 2015, with at least 13 programs ended, and Silicon Valley-based Knightscope securing the most contracts but also suffering the…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down to become Chairman of DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Corey Kavukcuoglu, CTO and Google Chief AI Architect, succeeding him as CEO. Se…
SBA Communications and other tower companies expressed optimism about future growth, citing upcoming government spectrum auctions and potential AI deployments on their infrastructure, during recent ea…