What changed this year is that communities now frame data centers around questions about who gets to decide, whose promises count, and whose authority to trust. Not surprisingly, data centers…
By Will Rinehart | August 28, 2026
Google, Meta, and TikTok are fighting a California statute that targets personalized content feeds to minors and raises important questions about both the First Amendment expressive rights of platforms in…
By Clay Calvert | August 25, 2026
Shane is joined by Adam and Milton to discuss the ongoing debate over AI governance.
By Shane Tews | August 20, 2026
Today’s leftists make the mistake of assuming politicians can rearrange our economic outcomes.
By Mark Jamison | August 19, 2026
James Comey’s recent motion to dismiss his seashells threats indictment on vindictive and selective prosecution grounds relies partly on President Trump’s own social media posts. This motion to dismiss is…
By Clay Calvert | August 18, 2026
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