Who, beyond deceased shooter Salvador Ramos, bears legal responsibility for the mass shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in May 2022? According to two…
By Clay Calvert | June 19, 2024
A couple weeks back, Tim Lee, the author of the Understanding AI Substack, put out the following plea on X: “I really wish there were more economists involved in discussions of the implications…
By Will Rinehart | June 18, 2024
Apple unveiled at its World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC24) Private Cloud Compute, or PPC, last Monday as a new way to manage the technical possibilities around security and privacy in cloud computing…
By Shane Tews | June 17, 2024
Broadband has been a bright spot in America’s grim inflationary landscape. While consumer prices rose 4.9 percent last year, two recent reports show that consumer broadband prices fell, both in absolute terms and…
By Daniel Lyons | June 14, 2024
It’s almost a truism that all technological innovations, generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tools included, can be put to both good and evil uses. This post addresses a decidedly disturbing deployment of…
By Clay Calvert | June 13, 2024
Tim Lee, the author of the excellent Understanding AI Substack, recently took to X with a plea: “I really wish there were more economists involved in discussions of the implications of superintelligence.” He…
By Will Rinehart | June 11, 2024
As the debate about regulating artificial intelligence applications heats up, much is being made of the need for transparency. For the most part, AI algorithms “do their thing” in an “black…
By Bronwyn Howell | June 11, 2024
NTIA is championing Route Origin Authorizations or ROA’s as part of the Biden Administration’s cybersecurity plan to fend off nation-state hackers and cyberattacks. In tandem with this effort, on June…
By Shane Tews | June 10, 2024
The “break” in US trade policy came under Trump and Biden, not in the 1990s. Recently, a spate of news stories has attempted to predict future US trade policy under a potential…
By Claude Barfield | June 10, 2024
In today’s complex business environment, being a CEO is akin to playing three-dimensional chess. Markets and supply chains are constantly disrupted by global conflicts, financial markets remain volatile, and AI…
By Mark Jamison | June 6, 2024
In May, the Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group, comprising sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Todd Young (R-IN), issued a report, Driving U.S. Innovation in Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Policy in the…
By Clay Calvert | June 5, 2024
The chip manufacturer Nvidia reported its first-quarter earnings last week—and it was another blockbuster. For the first three months of 2024, Nvidia booked $26 billion in revenue, up 18 percent from the…
By Will Rinehart | June 4, 2024
The practice of think-tankery provides one very little feedback. It’s a bit like shouting into the wind. One can’t be sure of being heard, and the winds of malign policy…
By Jim Harper | June 4, 2024
Technical debt, the accumulation of shortcuts and compromises in software systems, is an issue across industries with consequences ranging from system failures and security breaches to hindered innovation. The Wall…
By Shane Tews | | June 3, 2024
Net neutrality is a sometimes well-intentioned, but always misguided attempt to regulate the internet under the guise of fairness and equality. Except for a brief moment during the Obama administration,…
By Mark Jamison | May 31, 2024