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…
Chinese robotics company Unitree's Shanghai IPO was oversubscribed 5,500 times by retail investors, raising $904 million at a market value of about $9 billion. The company allocated 40.4 million share…
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…
Cisco chief architect Bob Everson testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media on July 30, stating that AI is reshaping networks by increasing traffic volume and chang…
Google launched Gemini Robotics 2, its most advanced vision-language action model, along with Gemini Robotics ER 2 and On-Device 2, to enable humanoid robots to reason and act with whole-body control.…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has banned all foreign-made advanced robotic devices, including robot vacuums, from being imported or sold in the country, citing national security ris…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg blasted the 'centralization' of AI in the hands of a few powerful companies and opposed potential US bans on Chinese AI models, arguing in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that ope…
The FCC has proposed a rule requiring government ID, physical address, and alternative phone number for every phone line in the US, with a comment deadline of July 25. Privacy advocates urge Americans…
HamGPT, a new AI chatbot built on a GPT engine and tailored for amateur radio operators, launched with access to FCC databases and propagation reports but lacks static ham radio literature. The servic…
HAMgpt, a personalized amateur-radio copilot, launches to help licensed and aspiring hams find live band conditions, repeaters, DX, POTA/SOTA activity, satellite passes, and antenna designs based on t…