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January 20, 2026
What Using AI for My Mom’s Cancer Taught Me
The most profound way I used AI in 2025 came during one of the harder stretches my family has faced: My mother’s cancer came back. In the past, navigating this diagnosis meant late‑night Googling, scattered notes, and a nagging sense that I did not fully understand the medical language in front of us. Second opinions…
January 20, 2026
What a Year of Living With AI Taught Me
A year ago, I shared some reflections on how I was using AI and suggested that it’s helpful to think of these tools as competent interns working remotely: earnest and sophisticated, but still in need of direction and supervision. In 2025, those interns grew up. What surprised me wasn’t the pace of technical progress but…
January 16, 2026
CES 2026 Marks the Shift From AI Features to AI Coordination
For many years, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) displayed the potential for smart technology to transform our daily lives. At CES 2026, the reality of smart devices came to life as AI improved how individual tasks are performed. The real breakthrough isn’t just AI-enabled devices: It’s how AI enables collaboration with systems that recognize that…
January 16, 2026
Two Cheers for Abundance: Tech Policy and the Politics of Growth
Over the last year, the Abundance movement has gained traction in American political discourse. Driven by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book of the same name, Abundance challenges the progressive left to focus on overcoming scarcity by rebuilding America’s capacity to build. The framework breaks down in places, and its prescriptions should not be accepted…
January 15, 2026
Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls
Back in 2012, Jessica Weinkle, Ryan Maue, and I published the first peer-reviewed paper presenting a time series of global tropical cyclone landfalls of hurricane strength. In that paper we concluded: From currently available historical TC records, we constructed a long-period global hurricane landfall dataset using a consistent methodology. We have identified considerable interannual variability in the frequency of…
January 15, 2026
What Makes an App Succeed? Lessons from Competing on Apple and Google Platforms
In today’s digital economy, mobile apps are everywhere—and so are the entrepreneurs trying to build them. Over 3.8 million apps are available in Apple’s App Store, with new ones entering every day. But what determines whether an app breaks through to success—or quietly fades into the background? In our new research, we analyze over 400,000…
January 13, 2026
Getting Serious About Improving Biosafety
Response to Better Biosecurity for the Bioeconomy by David Gillum. David Gillum makes a compelling and urgent case for improving oversight of high-risk biological research and proposes a National Biosafety and Biosecurity Agency to coordinate what is currently a fragmented federal process. His call for reform comes at a critical moment. As he notes, COVID-19 has created…
January 13, 2026
Kids’ Online Safety Requires Precision, Not Centralization
Parents have valid concerns about how online environments shape their children’s behavior. However, as the House Energy and Commerce Committee advances a comprehensive package of children’s online safety bills, the crucial question isn’t whether lawmakers should act, but how responsibility should be shared. How Congress assigns that responsibility will determine whether these reforms truly protect…
January 13, 2026
Restricting Minors’ Access to Social Media: Divided Ruling Over Florida Law Reveals First Amendment Rifts
An appellate court ruled in late November that a Florida law severely limiting minors’ ability to hold social media accounts and imposing age-verification and parental-confirmation requirements on platforms “likely” passes First Amendment muster and can take effect. The two-to-one decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Computer & Communications Industry…
January 12, 2026
Protecting Youth Online: 2025 Update
In 2025, the landscape of digital safety for youth shifted from monitoring to integrated protection. Major platforms have moved beyond simple screen-time counters to introduce granular content filtering, mandatory age-appropriate defaults, and tools that bridge the gap between operating systems and individual apps. The following report detail the specific toolsets announced by Apple, Google, Meta,…