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December 19, 2025
2025 Tech Year in Review
As 2025 comes to a close, we’re taking the time to look back and analyze some of the most notable developments in tech policy. The following represents the technology and innovation team’s year in review. 2025 marked the transition from AI as a conversational novelty to Agentic AI as an emerging capability and potential economic…
December 19, 2025
How Antitrust Enforcers Helped Kill an American Innovator
Recently, iRobot—the Massachusetts-based company that pioneered the robot vacuum—announced that it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Soon, it will be acquired by its Chinese manufacturer and lender, Picea Robotics. A once-iconic American technology company is becoming fully Chinese-owned. This outcome was not accidental. It is the predictable result of ill-conceived antitrust intervention by US…
December 18, 2025
Shutting Down NCAR Is Vindictive Governance
Yesterday, the Trump Administration announced that it was taking steps to shut down the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). USA Today broke the story: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world’s leading climate research labs….
December 18, 2025
Will Congress Allow One of the Nation’s Critical Cybersecurity Laws to Lapse?
On October 1, the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA 2015) silently lapsed at the beginning of the government shutdown. With it no longer active, we lose a crucial information-sharing structure between private industry and government, which makes the United States more vulnerable to malicious actors. CISA 2015 provided legal and antitrust protections, as well…
December 17, 2025
A Disquieting Post, a Public University, and the Tension Between Illegal Threats and Safeguarded Offense
Maybe it’s merely a manifestation of our uncivil, politically polarized times, but disputes involving whether hateful or otherwise offensive social media messages cross the line separating “uninhibited, robust, and wide-open” free expression from speech falling beyond First Amendment protection are prevalent. I’ve recently: examined a professor’s successful lawsuit against officials at his public university for…
December 16, 2025
Australian Social Media Regulation: When “Banning” Isn’t a Ban
On December 10, Australia’s long-awaited and much-heralded provisions governing social media use by individuals under 16 came into force. This regulation, which is widely described as banning under-16s from social media platforms, is being closely watched by Denmark, the European Commission, France, Greece, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Romania—all of which are considering similar regulations….
December 15, 2025
Five Figures – December Bonus Issue
I have lots of fascinating data to share today, hence the second Five Figures of December. Before the jump, here is an excerpt from my New York Post op-ed from earlier this week, which built upon the first installment of a new series from THB, on insurance and climate: The headlines are relentless, loudly proclaiming that climate-fueled extreme weather has caused an insurance…
December 15, 2025
How the Financial System Invented “Climate Risk” Untethered from Climate Science
Part 1 of the THB series on climate change and insurance focused on the recent financial performance of the insurance industry in the context of fevered claims of its looming collapse due to climate-fueled extreme events. Today, in Part 2 I take a deeper dive into one of the issues alluded to in that post —…
December 11, 2025
Trump’s Genesis Mission Needs the One Thing Washington Hates: Accountability
President Trump’s new Genesis Mission is an ambitious bid to energize American scientific leadership by harnessing artificial intelligence to accelerate discovery. It is a bold and correct step. But unless the administration pairs this vision with a hard requirement that the relevant federal agencies actually execute it, the effort risks becoming just another well-intentioned plan…
December 10, 2025
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Financial Surveillance
What a delight to see the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) taking a look at financial surveillance policy. It is as threatening to liberty and privacy as any other. Let’s hope its recent webinar-style panel discussion “Debanking and the Risks to Privacy and Civil Liberties” is an opening round on the problems created…