Walmart’s partnership with OpenAI isn’t just a clever new feature—it’s a rewiring of online shopping. With Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT, the “search → click → cart” ritual gives way to briefing an AI agent that can recommend, assemble, and purchase in one conversation. This piece explains why that shift matters: how intent aggregation changes discovery, why apps become backends, and how Agent Interface Optimization (AIO) replaces SEO for transactional queries. It also offer...| LBZ Advisory
New York’s internet policy illustrates state-driven affordability reform.| Broadband Breakfast
More than 30 stakeholder organisations in the US energy storage value chain have formed a new association to represent common interests.| Energy-Storage.News
OpenAI just announced Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) which powers ChatGPT Instant Checkout. This is a guide on how to build an ACP integration.| Svix Blog
Joint Finance Committee Republicans proposed delaying state broadband funding until after BEAD.| Broadband Breakfast
The Affordable Connectivity Program, which offered up to $30 a month towards broadband service for low-income and other eligible households, ran out of funds early this summer.| City Limits
Blog Post #1: Analyzing the Impact of Potential Changes to the ACP Eligibility Criteria| USC Annenberg Research Network on International Communication
The ACP State-Level Dashboard simultaneously displays ACP participation rates in February 2023 and Jan-to-Dec 2022 enrollment growth for each state. The scatterplot on the left shows the relationship between state-level ACP participation and growth, with lines representing the median value for the selected states. This four-quadrant format helps visualize states with high participation/high growth (right…| USC Annenberg Research Network on International Communication
On March 10, 2023, the FCC Affordable Broadband Outreach Grants Program allocated a total of $66 million in 197 grants to 195 organizations in 50 U.S. States and Territories.. On March 15, the FCC announced an additional $7.5 million in Outreach Grants to 32 organizations in 22 states for two additional outreach programs. Overall, 221…| USC Annenberg Research Network on International Communication