SCOOP: Senator Ben Ray Luján is leading a bipartisan coalition of senators to inject billions back into the Affordable Connectivity Program.

The amendment would get tacked on the FAA reauth.

MORE HERE:
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Almost all the bigs are racing to untether themselves from Nvidia wsj.com/tech/ai/apple-…

'Acute malnutrition rates there among children under 5 have surged from 1% to 30% five months later, the USAID official said..the fastest such climb in hunger in recent history, more than in conflicts and food shortages in Somalia or South Sudan.' npr.org/2024/05/04/124…

Condé Nast and the union representing employees of Vogue and other publications owned by the company reached a tentative agreement early Monday on a long-in-the-works contract, after unionized employees had threatened to disrupt the Met Gala. nyti.ms/3Qy6ma7

Break: The Condé Nast union has reached a tentative agreement with management. Happy Met Gala Day?

Ahem

The most dangerous trend in tech is the rise of the 4+ hour podcast interview. It cannot be allowed to propagate.

Since jack decided to mock WIRED's content this week (clearly without ever visiting the site), I thought I would just point out just a small sample of the incredible work my colleagues have published this week alone...

Here is our home page right now

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So...who's still using Airchat?

Here comes the flood of hybrid cars: Aarian Marshall joins the pod this week to tell you everything (seriously everything) you need to know about getting into the hybrid and EV car market. Also: Teslas, puppies, and books podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gad… with Michael Calore

I just want to make clear I am NOT primarily a SaaS reporter now so please don’t flood my inbox with pitches (only good tips on the inner workings of things in Silicon Valley) 🙏

It's super expensive for AI startups to buy compute power & cloud API access. But Clay Bavor, who started an enterprise chatbot co with Bret Taylor, says he thinks costs will go down & addressing a specific need will be better than going broad and wide in AI wired.com/story/unsexy-f…

The hottest thing in generative AI right now is ... narrowly-focused enterprise business models wired.com/story/unsexy-f… via Lauren Goode

This reminds me of how ppl thought Google Glass would be a cultural phenomenon but then it ended up siloed as useful in a few specific industries

Something I've noticed as we enter year two of the ChatGPT era of AI: AI startups are pivoting to unsexy enterprise, and others are launching with a very narrow enterprise focus. Is enterprise the real future of these AI models? wired.com/story/unsexy-f…

Tell me you don't read Wired without telling me

Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users effectively turn off their newsfeed (Tori Elliott / Wired)

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NEW: The National Archives has banned employee use of ChatGPT. Notable considering it is responsible for preserving an accurate historical record of the United States.

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