Wall Street Journal
OMB Cyber Chief Tells Agencies to Tap Brakes on AI (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 10/19/2023 - 06:16Google Antitrust Trial: Five Key Moments as Government Concludes Its Case (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 10/18/2023 - 17:06Tech Leaders Say AI Will Change What It Means to Have a Job (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 10/18/2023 - 06:24How Generative AI Will Change the Way You Use the Web, From Search to Shopping (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 10/18/2023 - 06:21AI Could Spur an Economic Boom. Humans Are in the Way. (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 10/17/2023 - 06:24Elon Musk’s X Courts Political Advertisers Ahead of a Contentious Election Year (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 10/17/2023 - 06:23Consolidated Communications to Be Bought For $3.1 Billion, Including Debt
Consolidated Communications has agreed to be bought for $3.1 billion, including debt, in a take-private deal that will remove the fiber company from the public markets as it grapples with higher interest rates and rising costs. Searchlight Capital Partners, a private-equity firm that already owns more than 34 percent of Consolidated Communications, and British Columbia Investment Management agreed to pay $4.70 a share for the company. The company has faced various challenges as it works to build up its next-generation fiber network.
After More Than Four Years, Has 5G Lived Up to Expectations?
Fifth-generation wireless networks have spread faster and farther than some early advocates predicted, but the technology—despite hundreds of billions of dollars invested worldwide—hasn’t revolutionized whole swaths of the economy the way past mobile technologies did. In the US, about 43% of people had 5G mobile subscriptions as of June, ranking 10th worldwide. Hong Kong had the world’s highest 5G penetration rate, with 74% of its population subscribed to the mobile service.