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
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
The US and Europe have a mutual interest in a shared, robust LEO infrastructure, created and run by private companies, focused on serving customers. The economic, security, and safety benefits…
By Mark Jamison | Lily Haak | July 29, 2026
A federal appellate court recently rejected First Amendment and vagueness challenges to an Ohio parental-consent statute that limits minors’ access to social media platforms “reasonably anticipated to be accessed by…
By Clay Calvert | July 28, 2026
The deeper problem is that too many policymakers are still legislating for a ChatGPT-3.5 world of chatbots predicting the next token, not for agents that think and act autonomously to…
By John Bailey | July 27, 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 | July 24, 2026
Shane is joined by Roslyn Layton to discuss how market-based reforms and greater reliance on commercial networks could modernize American spectrum policy.
By Shane Tews | July 23, 2026
The unlikely coalition behind the concerted, overblown campaign against the engines of technology growth.
By Michael M. Rosen | July 17, 2026
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