Web browsers are built for convenience—prioritizing speed, compatibility, and ease of use. But what happens when a browser isn’t for just an individual user but for an entire enterprise? In…
By Shane Tews | February 13, 2025
Intel, the nation’s putative semiconductor “national champion” has fallen on hard times. Having led technologically for some decades, Intel fell behind demands for advanced chips after the iPhone emergence and most recently…
By Claude Barfield | February 13, 2025
An important new paper published this week in Nature Communications looks at the historical record of fire in North America — A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | February 12, 2025
Vice President JD Vance’s remarks at the AI Action Summit weren’t just another policy speech—they were a declaration of intent. The Trump administration is staking out a coherent vision: AI…
By Klon Kitchen | February 12, 2025
One of the hottest guessing games in workforce development is figuring out how generative artificial intelligence will affect jobs and how to prepare students and workers for an AI-infused economy.…
By Brent Orrell | February 11, 2025
Shortly after Donald Trump sued CBS in October over what he called “false, misleading, deceptive, and, therefore, unconscionable and detrimental news distortion” in editing a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, I contended that the lawsuit…
By Clay Calvert | February 11, 2025
As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms the global economy, the success of America’s AI strategy depends on the expertise and leadership of administration officials nominated and confirmed by Congress. These public…
By Shane Tews | February 11, 2025
Shortly after Donald Trump sued CBS in October over what he called “false, misleading, deceptive, and, therefore, unconscionable and detrimental news distortion” in editing a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, I contended that the lawsuit…
By Clay Calvert | February 11, 2025
The term “scenario” was introduced by a group of researchers at the RAND Corporation in the 1960s. Herman Kahn explained its origin in 1979: “We deliberately chose the word [scenario] to…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | February 10, 2025
Last week, in a classic Friday evening news dump, the Trump administration set off one of those frantic controversies that seem to be our fate for the next few years.…
By Yuval Levin | February 10, 2025
Yesterday around 11:00 am, while working from home preparing course material for the next university semester, all Microsoft cloud-related connection to my university was severed. No OneDrive access to my…
By Bronwyn Howell | February 10, 2025
The Biden administration’s handling of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program exemplifies why Americans turned to Donald Trump to be their president: big promises, bureaucratic bloat,…
By Mark Jamison | February 10, 2025
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine is expanding at an astonishing pace, mirroring the rapid advances in AI technology itself. Some experts within the field predict that in…
By Scott Gottlieb, MD | February 10, 2025
To understand what went wrong with antitrust during the Biden administration, look no further than former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Lina Khan’s take on DeepSeek’s launch of R1, an artificial-intelligence (AI) platform.…
By Mark Jamison | February 10, 2025
I haven’t written about tariffs at all, leaving it to Scott Lincicome to cover the ins and outs of tariff policy for Dispatch readers. But with the escalating trade war and a lot of open questions,…
By Will Rinehart | February 10, 2025