Americans rely on wireless connections for nearly every part of modern life, and demand for the airwaves that make those connections possible is only growing. But much of the nation’s…
| July 16, 2026
Export controls, secret benchmarks, and the quiet arrival of an ad hoc licensing regime
By Will Rinehart | July 15, 2026
The contest for primacy in the 21st century will not be won by denying advanced AI to others. It will be won by making American technology so ubiquitous and essential…
By Mark Jamison | July 14, 2026
Some attorneys continue to cite fake content generated by artificial intelligence tools. The problem now doesn’t just involve non-existent cases, but invented quotations and false factual assertions working their way…
By Clay Calvert | July 14, 2026
The ideas for governing this technology are maturing fast. The institution capable of holding them is not. Closing that gap, before the models write the next models, is the real…
By John Bailey | July 13, 2026
The Farmall eventually transformed farming across the Corn Belt. But it required the right conditions and farms ready to reorganize around it. AI may follow the same path. But the…
By Will Rinehart | July 11, 2026
The US shares many challenges with these jurisdictions and can draw insights from their experiences, yet the comparison questions assumptions about what a post-copper world will look like and the…
By Bronwyn Howell | July 10, 2026
Shane is joined by Kevin Frazier to examine what President Trump’s recent cybersecurity executive order does, what it leaves unresolved, and how policymakers can respond to AI-enabled cyber risks while…
By Shane Tews | July 9, 2026
For the Chatrie case, the action moves back to the Fourth Circuit. For more solid legal privacy protection, it’s a conservative effort in at least one state, enjoying bipartisan support,…
By Jim Harper | July 6, 2026
China has sought to stir up the controversy around data centers in the United States, aided by a strain of political thought hostile to billionaires and Big Tech.
By Michael M. Rosen | July 4, 2026
New frontier AI models are changing the cybersecurity landscape. As advanced systems become more capable of finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities, the federal government is trying to determine how to…
| July 2, 2026
As the lawmaker, the court should bear the burden of clarifying what is prohibited, rather than allowing ambiguous drafting to chill lawful conduct.
By Daniel Lyons | July 2, 2026
In 1956, government officials were trying to address situations they could see. A few researchers gathering at Dartmouth were imagining possibilities that few others could. History remembers both. But only…
By Mark Jamison | July 1, 2026
Recent rulings in a federal lawsuit involving whether an “8647” flag displayed in Washington, DC, constitutes a true threat of violence against President Donald Trump cut against the government’s indictment…
By Clay Calvert | July 1, 2026
Capital markets have classified AI infrastructure as a distinct asset class. The policy architecture that governs it still belongs to the last industrial era. That gap is the real bottleneck.
By Shane Tews | June 30, 2026