FCC's Covered List has restricted new imports of humanoid and four-legged robots since July, in a market where Chinese firms ship 80 to 97% of humanoids. The cost to US builders turns on whether the list grows to cover the Chinese actuators and magnets they still buy.
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Disney, ABC and eight owned stations sued the FCC and Brendan Carr in Washington, asking a judge to stop an early license review before it becomes a hearing.
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The commission's notice asks for outcome metrics instead of compliance filings, including a count of wrongly blocked calls, while insisting it creates no new requirements and naming no data set that holds that number.
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Guidance issued in January told broadcasters that late-night and daytime talk shows are not necessarily exempt from equal time, and since then two networks have kept the same Senate candidate off air.
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Netflix rose 4% to $80.78 as it co-founded TechNet's streaming lobby with Amazon and YouTube, about two points more than its sector fund on a day the broad market fell. The review at issue started as a complaint about streaming paywalls.
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Paramount says the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar will take its indirect foreign ownership to 49.5 percent. The FCC approved that. The purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery still waits on a March antitrust trial.
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Federal broadband money for California now comes with a promise not to enforce state affordability, net neutrality and public-safety rules against the recipients. The window to contest that promise closes at signature.
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The petition leans on Viasat's own coexistence filing, which SpaceX reads as showing the satellite could interfere about a third of the time in two Ka-band slices the FCC already fenced off in July.
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The August 14 Section 706 report abolishes the 1Gbps/500Mbps target without replacement, leaving a 20Mbps upstream as the federal number teams design around.
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FOIA records reported by the Guardian show the FCC chair meeting the White House, Fox and Sinclair. The independence standard regulated firms were told to plan against is not the one in force.
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ABC, Disney and eight owned stations sued the FCC on First Amendment grounds to halt an early license review the network says is retaliation for its speech.
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The FCC opened a review of a roughly $3 billion-a-year school and library connectivity program on screen-time grounds. School network groups say affordability is the statutory point.
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An FCC rule demands 65% domestic content, rising to 75% in 2029. The startups it is meant to protect are the ones that cannot assemble a compliant parts list.
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