Elon Musk's frontier generative AI startup xAI formally opened developer access to its Grok 4.1 Fast models last night and introduced a new Agent Tools API—but the technical milestones were immediately subverted by a wave of public ridicule about Grok's responses on the social network X over the last few days praising its creator Musk as more athletic than championship-winning American football players and legendary boxer Mike Tyson, despite having displayed no public prowess at either sport.They emerge as yet another black eye for xAI's Grok following the "MechaHitler" scandal in the summer of 2025, in which an earlier version of Grok adopted a verbally antisemitic persona inspired by the late German dictator and Holocaust architect, and an incident in May 2025 which it replied to X users to discuss unfounded claims of "white genocide" in Musk's home country of South Africa to unrelated subject matter.This time, X users shared dozens of examples of Grok alleging Musk was stronger […]

FCC Revokes California Lifeline Application Exceptions The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Wireline Competition Bureau has issued an order that revokes an “opt-out” that enabled the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to use its own process for verifying that applicants to the federal Lifeline program are entitled to participate in the program. The FCC’s press release says that the legislation recently signed Telecompetitor

NTIA Approves Texas’ BEAD Final Proposal Texas has received approval its Final Proposal for federal funding through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program. Texas’ Benefit of the Bargain funding round saved $2 billion compared to allocations by the Biden administration, according to a press release from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) about the Texas proposal. The original Telecompetitor

On November 20, 2025, the FCC voted unanimously to begin the rulemaking process for auctioning at least 100 megahertz of upper C-band spectrum from 3.98 to 4.08 GHz. The proposal The post 5G Americas welcomes FCC move to initiate auction process for 3.98–4.08 GHz spectrum appeared first on 5G Americas.

Infographics rendered without a single spelling error. Complex diagrams one-shotted from paragraph prompts. Logos restored from fragments. And visual outputs so sharp with so much text density and accuracy, one developer simply called it “absolutely bonkers.”Google DeepMind’s newly released Nano Banana Pro—officially Gemini 3 Pro Image—has drawn astonishment from both the developer community and enterprise AI engineers. But behind the viral praise lies something more transformative: a model built not just to impress, but to integrate deeply across Google’s AI stack—from Gemini API and Vertex AI to Workspace apps, Ads, and Google AI Studio.Unlike earlier image models, which targeted casual users or artistic use cases, Gemini 3 Pro Image introduces studio-quality, multimodal image generation for structured workflows—with high resolution, multilingual accuracy, layout consistency, and real-time knowledge grounding. It’s engineered for technical buyers, orchestration […]

Broadband Permitting Legislation Moves Forward The House of Representatives Subcommittee on Communications and Technology has marked up several broadband permitting bills. Congress marks up bills to formally review, amend, and vote on changes to a bill before it is sent to the full chamber for consideration. This process allows committee members to propose amendments, negotiate, and refine the legislation’s text Telecompetitor

Mittal has been shifted to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

ScaleOps has expanded its cloud resource management platform with a new product aimed at enterprises operating self-hosted large language models (LLMs) and GPU-based AI applications. The AI Infra Product announced today, extends the company’s existing automation capabilities to address a growing need for efficient GPU utilization, predictable performance, and reduced operational burden in large-scale AI deployments. The company said the system is already running in enterprise production environments and delivering major efficiency gains for early adopters, reducing GPU costs by between 50% and 70%, according to the company. The company does not publicly list enterprise pricing for this solution and instead invites interested customers to receive a custom quote based on their operation size and needs here.In explaining how the system behaves under heavy load, Yodar Shafrir, CEO and Co-Founder of ScaleOps, said in an email to VentureBeat that the platform uses “proactive and […]

More Than Just Talk: Agentic AI Gets the Job Done Two years ago, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots were at the cutting edge of customer service automation. Today, they’re the norm. For rural broadband service providers (BSPs) competing in an increasingly sophisticated marketplace, understanding the distinction between chatbots and agentic AI will help you keep pace with customer expectations. Traditional chatbots excel at conversation, answering questions Telecompetitor

NTIA Approves First BEAD Proposals: What We Heard From the 15 States  Updated November 19 and 20 with information from additional states. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said today that it has approved award recommendations for 15 states and three territories in the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. Telecompetitor reached out to all 15 states to ask about any changes made by NTIA. Telecompetitor