The Indian experience with digital identity verification using Aadhaar may prove informative if the need to ensure child social media safety is seen to be sufficiently important to necessitate the…
By Bronwyn Howell | August 14, 2026
Employees at several leading AI companies are asking the US government and international bodies to slow the development of frontier models. Doing so would put governments in the position of…
| August 13, 2026
How our political and legal system answers these questions will determine how deeply AI transforms the economy.
By Will Rinehart | August 13, 2026
A preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of a Cornhusker State law that imposes digital age-verification and parental-consent obligations on social media platforms before minors can hold accounts carries important First Amendment…
By Clay Calvert | August 12, 2026
We have long conceived of searches and seizures as discrete events aimed at suspects of crime. Technology has a way of remixing things. Through Flock, Kansas maintains an ongoing search…
By Jim Harper | August 11, 2026
By revealing higher education’s overreliance on outputs as a proxy for learning, the AI revolution is prompting universities back to their mission: forming educated, discerning citizens who pursue truth.
By Daniel Lyons | August 7, 2026
Why when Prime Minister Albanese announced the AI strategy did he omit mention of mining? Perhaps because that industry needed neither government strategy nor funding to become a world AI…
By Bronwyn Howell | August 6, 2026
Shane is joined by Evan Swarztrauber to discuss whether AI is moving too fast for the systems designed to contain its cyber risks.
By Shane Tews | August 6, 2026
In July, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sought public comment about its proposed policy statement addressing the Commission’s concern that artificial intelligence companies train large language models (LLMs) to “surreptitiously…
By Clay Calvert | August 5, 2026
Arguably, given the scale of the Australian economy, the incentives to protect that economy from competitive rivals and to grow it where possible to take advantage of what new technologies…
By Bronwyn Howell | August 3, 2026
For more than two centuries, the U.S. has attracted investment not because any single regulator kept their job, but because no single institution could easily rewrite the rules on its…
By Mark Jamison | July 31, 2026
Until recently, concerns about AI agents conducting autonomous cyber operations were largely theoretical. The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident in July changed that, while Anthropic’s Mythos exposed software vulnerabilities buried for decades.…
| July 30, 2026
AI will reshape the economy whether Florida participates or not. We should not shackle our state, causing our children and grandchildren to fall behind. The question facing the next governor…
By Mark Jamison | July 30, 2026
Data centers have become a cipher, the visible stand-in for a more diffuse set of anxieties surrounding the advent of AI, including job displacement, distrust of Big Tech, and a…
By Daniel Lyons | July 30, 2026
Export controls have slowed China’s semiconductor ambitions, but older chipmaking equipment is enabling Beijing to narrow the AI hardware gap.
By Ryan Fedasiuk | Julia Torres | July 29, 2026