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February 27, 2024
Headlong Rush To Ban Communist China’s Deepseek Ignores Potential Upside of the AI Breakthrough
South Korea is the latest in a string of nations to prohibit Deepseek’s groundbreakingchatbot from operating, joining Australia, the Republic of China on Taiwan, Italy, and manyothers, including America, that have barred government employees from access to theplatform.Over the course of the last month, Deepseek has become a Rorshach test of sorts for thosewho use,…
February 26, 2024
Navigating the Data Security and Privacy Tightrope: Balancing the Biden Administration and European Rules on Tech
The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently updated its taxonomy of “critical and emerging technologies,” emphasizing the US government’s increased focus on data privacy and cybersecurity. This move, which revises and expands on a document last revised in 2022, comes at a crucial time: the digital landscape is rapidly evolving, influenced by groundbreaking…
February 20, 2024
Who Is Ultimately Responsible for Children’s Internet Safety?
Last week, Project Liberty released the results of a survey of 14,000 adults in seven countries—Brazil, China, France, India, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States—that found “people are deeply worried that social media opens the door to a range of harms for young people.” According to the study, “65% say they are ‘very concerned’…
February 16, 2024
The Twilight of US Trade Leadership
As 2024 begins, the United States continues its retreat from its post-World War II role as leader of a rules-based global trading system. This retreat began in 2017 with the mercurial and destructive trade policies of former president Donald Trump and has continued since 2021 with the deeply conflicted trade policies of current President Joe…
February 15, 2024
Making Sense of Music Streaming
The rise of streaming platforms like Spotify has reshaped music economics, revealing the industry’s longstanding flawed incentive structures that can make it difficult for artists to be paid for their work. These issues are only further exacerbated by the rise of AI, which raises questions around originality and copyright. In this ever-evolving industry, how can…
February 13, 2024
The Trade and Technology Council: RIP?
In case you missed it, ten days ago, the US and EU held the fifth ministerial meeting of the US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), since its inception in 2021. At the meeting, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo somewhat plaintively urged “stakeholders” such as business organizations and civil society groups to “demand” that the TTC be…
February 8, 2024
The EU Rules Risk Smartphone Security
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) targets “Big Tech” platforms under the idea that new regulations will increase competition and user choice. But by mandating openness, these new rules could inadvertently undermine vital security protections for consumers. Smartphones contain highly sensitive personal information across finance, health, and communication apps. Securing these devices is paramount. Apple has…
February 6, 2024
Indigenous Spectrum Ownership Can’t Address Digital Disadvantage
In New Zealand, February 6 is Waitangi Day, the local equivalent of the United States’ Fourth of July. On this day in 1840, Captain William Hobson the Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales and the chiefs of a large number of the indigenous Māori tribes signed the Treaty of Waitangi. In exchange for the chiefs ceding some powers to the…
January 31, 2024
CHIPS 1, CHIPS 2 . . . CHIPS X
Semiconductor titans are angling to feast on new public subsidies even before they have digested the first tranche. Two weeks ago in Davos, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, in effect, made a strong call for a CHIPS 2, referring to the $52 billion CHIPS and Science Act passed by Congress in August 2022. Not to be outdone, OpenAI’s…
January 26, 2024
Beyond Bitcoin: Unlocking Blockchain’s Potential
Blockchain technology has the potential to transform financial services, supply chains, and efficiency. Yet as innovators like Digital Assets seek to modernize infrastructure across industries, questions emerge around balancing efficiency, privacy, and regulatory needs in complex blockchain applications. To unpack some of these key questions around blockchain, privacy, and regulation, I spoke with Yuval Rooz. Rooz…