DOJ is weighing the enforcement potential around AI-related discriminatory practices, Assistant Attorney General-Civil Rights Kristen Clarke said Tuesday. The Civil Rights Division is bolstering AI enforcement, education, outreach and interagency coordination, Clarke told an NTIA listening session.

Legislators plan to attach cyber incident reporting language to a legislative vehicle in the near future, Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., told us last week after bipartisan language was dropped from the National Defense Authorization Act (see 2112070067). The office for Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., denied Democrats’ claims that Republican “dysfunction” led to a bipartisan agreement falling apart last-minute.

Sonos supports the recommendations of Chief Administrative Law Judge Charles Bullock at the International Trade Commission to slap Google with a cease and desist order, preventing it from circumventing the judge’s recommended import ban on smart speakers and other devices that he found to infringe five Sonos multiroom audio patents, said Sonos in redacted Dec. 2 comments (login required) newly posted Monday in docket 337-TA-1191. Google responded in its own redacted comments (login required) that the ITC should reject Bullock’s call for “sweeping remedial orders” that would deprive U.S. consumers of its “cutting-edge and life-enhancing household products.”

Ad-supported and transactional VOD models are growing as a way for over-the-top video providers to differentiate in an “incredibly crowded” streaming market, said Parks Associates analyst Jennifer Kent, opening the company’s online Future of Video event Tuesday.

October TV unit imports to the U.S. were the highest of any month this year, defying the trend in other retail product categories, in which October declines ended a 14-month streak of year-over-year growth (see 2112080022). The average October TV import trended larger and slightly less inflationary compared with shipments in recent months.

The U.S. is in the midst of a huge run of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments by broadband providers, though it won't reach a significant part of the country, an ACA Connects webinar heard Thursday. Many providers are transitioning to fiber, but that transition is focused on profitable areas and leaves behind minority communities, some said.

5G has little chance of replacing fiber in many areas because of the relative cost of wireless, speakers said Thursday during a TelecomTV virtual conference. Speakers agreed fiber builds will continue at a rapid pace globally.

House Commerce Committee Democrats sent draft privacy bill language to Republicans last week in hopes the two sides can reach agreement in the near future, said Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J. Updates were made on the bipartisan staff discussion draft, which the two sides have been negotiating since last Congress, he said. Democrats are “confident” the two sides can work together and reach agreement, said Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., who hosted Thursday’s hearing on Big Tech issues.

Lead times in Broadcom’s supply chain “remain extended,” though “stable,” and inventory in its channels “remains very lean,” said CEO Hock Tan on an investor call Thursday for fiscal Q4 ended Oct. 31. Broadcom’s semiconductor solutions revenue grew 17% year on year to $5.6 billion, he said. The stock closed 8.3% higher Friday at $631.68.

There has been “major improvement” in recent weeks to ease congestion across the Port of Los Angeles, “but there’s still so much work to do,” Executive Director Gene Seroka told a Washington Post webinar Thursday. The profound shortage of truckers and warehouse labor in Southern California remains a severe problem that won’t ease anytime soon, he said.