On November 6, Reuters reported that Google was planning to build a large artificial intelligence data center on Australia’s Indian Ocean territory—Christmas Island—after signing a deal with the Australian Department…
By Bronwyn Howell | November 14, 2025
Section 1033 of the Dodd–Frank Act is the foundation of open banking in the United States—giving individuals the right to access and share their own financial data with services of…
By Shane Tews | November 13, 2025
It has become popular in both parties to believe that the government should be in the business of being in business. From Democrats proposing city-run grocery stores to Republicans buying…
By Mark Jamison | November 13, 2025
The Federalist Society produced a webinar recently that I found fascinating, not only because I was a panelist. There was a marked divergence of opinion on Fourth Amendment law. I…
By Jim Harper | November 12, 2025
Earlier this year, Charter Communications, Inc. and Cox Communications announced a $34.5 billion proposed merger. If completed, the combined company would become both the largest cable television provider and the…
By Daniel Lyons | November 10, 2025
Satellite communications used to be the domain of weather forecasters, cable providers, and aerospace engineers. That changed when Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites came along—and when Elon Musk decided to…
By Mark Jamison | November 10, 2025
We throw rocks in the stream, hoping to move the flow to a better channel. That’s one metaphor for what we do in public policy analysis and commentary. I have…
By Jim Harper | November 5, 2025
As commotion subsides over US Attorney General Pam Bondi’s gaffe following Charlie Kirk’s assassination about prosecutors targeting people who engage in online “hate speech,” it’s vital to distinguish hate speech…
By Clay Calvert | November 4, 2025
The US Department of Commerce has launched what could become one of the most significant initiatives in the Administration’s AI Action Plan: the American AI Exports Program. This new effort…
By Shane Tews | November 3, 2025
AI looks like a circular money machine. Microsoft owns a major stake in OpenAI, which in turn invests in AMD. Nvidia puts billions of dollars into OpenAI and holds equity in CoreWeave, one of Microsoft’s…
By Mark Jamison | November 1, 2025
Australia is rapidly developing a reputation for being the fastest e-regulator in the world. Not content with her world-leading legislation prohibiting under-16s from having social media accounts—taking effect on December…
By Bronwyn Howell | October 31, 2025
Bluesky Social is a social media app that was originally launched in 2019 on Twitter, before becoming an independent company in 2021. Bluesky’s mission is to offer a decentralized experience…
By Shane Tews | October 30, 2025
At the Roots of Progress Conference earlier this month, Tyler Cowen interviewed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who at one point wondered about the world that was to come with AI…
By Will Rinehart | October 29, 2025
Apple recently banned crowd-sourced applications from its App Store, including ICEBlock, that let users post nearby sightings and locations of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Debuting in April,…
By Clay Calvert | October 29, 2025
As my AEI colleague Shane Tews recently noted, the global leaderboard in technology tells a clear story: Innovation thrives in the United States, not Europe. Twenty of the world’s 25…
By Mark Jamison | October 27, 2025