On Tuesday, the Biden-Harris administration finalized a CHIPS award of up to $7.865 billion to help fund the expansion of Intel’s commercial fabs in the US. By the end of the decade, these fabs are intended to decrease reliance on foreign adversaries and fill substantial gaps in America’s domestic semiconductor supply chain. Initially, Intel was […]
November 26, 2024 | AI chips, Chips Act, chips fabs, chips plants, Donald Trump, Intel, Policy, semiconductor | No comments
Trump had in particular targeted Mexico on the campaign trail, threatening to impose “whatever tariffs are required—100 percent, 200 percent, 1,000 percent” to stop Chinese cars from crossing the southern border. He has also warned Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, he would impose tariffs of 25 percent if she did not crack down on the “onslaught […]
November 26, 2024 | Canada, china, Donald Trump, mexico, Policy, syndication, tariffs | No comments
Record labels vs. ISPs Cox has said that letting the piracy ruling stand “would force ISPs to terminate Internet service to households or businesses based on unproven allegations of infringing activity, and put them in a position of having to police their networks.” Cox said that ISPs “have no way of verifying whether a bot-generated […]
November 25, 2024 | copyright infringement, Policy, record labels, sony v. cox | No comments
One of the fastest monopoly trials on record wound down Monday, as US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema heard closing arguments on Google’s alleged monopoly in a case over the company’s ad tech. Department of Justice lawyer Aaron Teitelbaum kicked things off by telling Brinkema that Google “rigged” ad auctions, allegedly controlling “multiple parts” of […]
November 25, 2024 | advertising exchange, Antitrust law, Google, google ad manager, google ad tech, google adx, online advertising, Policy | No comments
Once OpenAI figured out what happened, data was restored, OpenAI said. But the NYT alleged that the only data that OpenAI could recover did “not include the original folder structure and original file names” and therefore “is unreliable and cannot be used to determine where the News Plaintiffs’ copied articles were used to build Defendants’ […]
November 25, 2024 | copyright, fair use, google books, new york times, openai, Policy | No comments
The US Supreme Court will hear appeals of a 5th Circuit ruling that called Universal Service fees on phone bills an illegal tax. The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled in July that the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund is unconstitutional and that the fees on phone bills are a “misbegotten […]
November 25, 2024 | Policy, Universal Service Fund | No comments
The world’s most important climate talks were pulled back from the brink of collapse after poorer countries reluctantly accepted a finance package of “at least” $300 billion a year from wealthy nations after bitter negotiations. Fears about stretched budgets around the world and the election of Donald Trump as US president, who has described climate […]
November 25, 2024 | climate change, COP29, Policy, Science, syndication | No comments
US Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Congressman Jerry Nadler of New York have called on government bodies to investigate what they allege is the “predatory pricing” of .com web addresses, the Internet’s prime real estate. In a letter delivered today to the Department of Justice and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a branch […]
November 23, 2024 | anti monopoly, elizabeth warren, monopolies, Policy, syndication | No comments
The law also says the NTIA may not “regulate the rates charged for broadband service,” and Republicans claim the NTIA is violating this restriction. A July 23 letter sent by over 30 broadband industry trade groups also alleged that the administration is illegally regulating broadband prices. ISPs pointed to NTIA guidance that “strongly encouraged” states […]
November 22, 2024 | access, and Deployment program, Broadband Equity, Policy, ted cruz | No comments
DirecTV CEO Bill Morrow indicated his company wasn’t willing to change the deal to satisfy Dish bondholders. “We have terminated the transaction because the proposed Exchange Terms were necessary to protect DirecTV’s balance sheet and our operational flexibility,” Morrow said. AT&T still selling DirecTV stake AT&T owns 70 percent of DirecTV but plans to sell […]
November 22, 2024 | direct, DISH, Policy | No comments