This week, D.C. District Court Judge Amit Mehta delivered his long-awaited remedies decision in U.S. v. Google. In the 230-page document, Judge Mehta charted a middle course that reflects both…
By Will Rinehart | September 5, 2025
Late last month, President Trump announced that the US government would be taking a 10 percent stake in Intel. The move makes the US government the single largest shareholder in…
By Will Rinehart | September 4, 2025
In an August 24 post on Truth Social, Donald Trump called ABC and NBC News “two of the worst and most biased networks in history.” The president said he’d support…
By Clay Calvert | September 3, 2025
Tracking the fate of Mississippi’s age-verification and parental-consent law for social media account holders in the face of a First Amendment challenge in NetChoice v. Fitch is like watching a…
By Clay Calvert | August 27, 2025
When someone attacks your democracy, it tends to stick in your craw. I don’t know that democracy is the last, best way to arrange human affairs, but if we’re going…
By Jim Harper | August 22, 2025
There was much angst surrounding AI as it loomed as a potential part of daily life, even among the so-called AI experts. But is it warranted? Physicist Niels Bohr is…
By Bronwyn Howell | August 22, 2025
Agentic AI, or automated systems that are capable of completing tasks and making decisions without human intervention, requires interoperability to remain innovative and competitive. But what does this degree of…
By Shane Tews | August 21, 2025
Earlier this summer, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unexpectedly delayed implementation of its 2024 prison call order until 2027. The order, which was mandated by Congress and had bipartisan support…
By Daniel Lyons | August 20, 2025
A recent Washington Post headline claimed its tech columnist, Geoffrey Fowler, had shown that “Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods [has] failed to make a dent.” The claim would…
By Mark Jamison | August 19, 2025
This week’s announcement that AOL will be discontinuing its dial-up internet access service on September 30 triggered a bout of nostalgia in me—an internet dinosaur who first dialed up to…
By Bronwyn Howell | August 15, 2025
Last week, my home state of Illinois became one of the first in the nation to ban AI therapy when Governor Pritzker signed the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources…
By Will Rinehart | August 14, 2025
Who should control data? The question is increasingly central to policy debates in Washington, Brussels, and Silicon Valley. It’s being asked in antitrust lawsuits, AI regulation proposals, and sweeping data…
By Mark Jamison | August 14, 2025
When OpenAI released GPT-5 last week, most coverage focused on the model’s performance gains, including fewer hallucinations, stronger multilingual abilities, and state-of-the-art results in health tasks. But buried deep in…
By John Bailey | August 13, 2025
With the US Supreme Court now considering in NetChoice v. Fitch whether to reinstate an injunction blocking enforcement of Mississippi’s online age-verification and parental-consent law, it’s vital to understand the…
By Clay Calvert | August 13, 2025
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Australian federal government is forging ahead with its “world-leading” legislation aimed at protecting Australian under-16s from social media harms. Last week, it was announced that YouTube—previously…
By Bronwyn Howell | August 8, 2025