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September 15, 2025
How Tech Has Become the Economy’s Central Nervous System
When Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC)—the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturer—reports a 34 percent increase in August revenue, it’s more than just corporate success; it’s evidence of a fundamental economic shift, signaling that technology has become the centerpiece of modern commerce. The technology industry’s new economic reality is due to a shift from silicon to…
September 12, 2025
BEAD and Satellite Services—Is Policy Preference Still the Enemy of Effective Access?
In late August, the Congressional Research Service released a discussion paper identifying issues for the 119th Congress to address regarding the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program. BEAD is the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) flagship program, which provides grants to ensure “affordable, reliable, high-speed broadband” service to locations currently lacking it. Congress…
September 11, 2025
Babylon Bee 1, California 0: Court Strikes Down Law Regulating Election-Related AI Content
By reducing traditional barriers of content creation, the AI revolution holds the potential to unleash an explosion in creative expression. It also increases the societal risks associated with the spread of misinformation. This tension is the subject of a recent landmark judicial decision, Babylon Bee v Bonta (hat tip to Ajit Pai, whose social media…
September 10, 2025
Spacecraft Is Statecraft
On August 6, the secretive China Manned Space Agency successfully tested a mockup of its Lanyue lunar lander. In a rare official statement, the agency explained that the lander will “transport two taikonauts between the lunar orbit and the lunar surface…[and] will serve as a life-support center, an energy center and a data center, offering…
September 9, 2025
The Hidden Price Tag of California’s AI Oversight Bill
The California State Legislature is rushing to pass bills before the session adjourns on September 12, 2025. One bill I have been closely tracking is AB 1018 Automated decision systems, which would regulate all automated decision systems that make consequential decisions. The underlying philosophy behind this bill and similar ones assumes that mandating human oversight automatically…
September 9, 2025
Proportionality and Framing: Unpacking Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton
The US Supreme Court concluded in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton that the government can force adults to disclose personal, age-verifying information to access sexual content they have a First Amendment right to view but that’s forbidden for minors. I previously criticized the majority for creating a workaround from the demanding strict scrutiny standard of…
September 8, 2025
What to Do About Fentanyl
Three hundred thousand kilograms of methamphetamine precursor chemicals sit in a Houston warehouse, their blue barrels arranged in an oddly orderly display of chaos. The chemicals — enough to produce a million kilos of meth — were bound for Sinaloa from China when U.S. authorities intercepted them last week. Officials celebrated it as the largest seizure in American history,…
September 8, 2025
Are Humans the Greatest Bottleneck to AI Progress?
We stand at the precipice of a technological revolution that could transform every aspect of business and society. Artificial intelligence promises unprecedented efficiency, accuracy, and innovation. Yet, as we survey the corporate landscape today, a troubling pattern emerges: Those who could benefit most from AI are systematically blocking its adoption. The greatest obstacle to our…
September 5, 2025
The Adaptability Dividend: Survival in the Age of Glass-Cannon Technology
The founders of the American republic assumed malice would be constrained by material scarcity: Weapons were expensive, destructive power centralized, and the state’s police and military could deter or punish most offenders. That order is collapsing. The diffusion of advanced technologies is improving the destructive capacity of individuals faster than the defensive capabilities of states….
September 5, 2025
Antitrust Needs to Catch Up with the Pace of Technology
The White House has declared artificial intelligence “non-negotiable” for America’s future. Winning the AI race, the administration argues, is essential to the nation’s prosperity and security. But if the United States is serious about that goal, it needs to rethink how it approaches antitrust, letting fast-moving markets generally solve market power problems on their own….