An extended report on how a fight over contract language between Anthropic and the Department of War became a test of who controls frontier AI.
By Will Rinehart | April 29, 2026
Directly through the Surveillance Accountability Act or indirectly through the Common Law Privacy and Consumer Protection Act, there are moves afoot to make the internet a constitutionally protected area.
By Jim Harper | April 29, 2026
Even as China closes the gap with the US in AI development and threatens to exploit our cyber vulnerabilities, it may in turn be unwittingly exposing itself to a liberal…
By Michael M. Rosen | April 29, 2026
The Department of Education has outlined thoughtful priorities. But the technology is evolving faster than any priority document can keep up with, and school leaders are already wrestling with it…
By John Bailey | April 28, 2026
If NTIA is looking for high-impact uses of its unexpected surplus, modernizing prison communications infrastructure is an opportunity worth serious consideration.
By Daniel Lyons | April 28, 2026
Why the Verdict in Los Angeles on Social Media Addiction May Not Spell Doom for Meta and Google
By Clay Calvert | April 24, 2026
The problem with the EU and Australian approaches to age-gating is that regulatory responsibility is being shifted onto platform operators. Perhaps it’s time to consider the role of human accountabilities,…
By Bronwyn Howell | April 24, 2026
Information technology and digital services are a rapidly changing sector operating in an increasingly complex regulatory environment. International bodies have struggled to fast-track standards for the digital services industry, and…
| April 23, 2026
When AI complements human abilities—particularly by addressing specific barriers—it can unlock human potential.
By Mark Jamison | April 23, 2026
A dark form of anti-technology politics is beginning to take shape. This month, a molotov cocktail was thrown at the San Francisco home of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. The suspect fled…
By Will Rinehart | April 22, 2026
A federal judge’s February ruling blocking Virginia’s enforcement of a statute that imposes a one-hour-per-day default limit for minors using a social media platform correctly puts parents––not the government––back in…
By Clay Calvert | April 22, 2026
China’s fleet of several hundred deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines will almost certainly be capable of printing millions of high-end logic dies in 2026, which Huawei will package into high-end…
By Ryan Fedasiuk | Julia Torres | April 21, 2026
As major artificial intelligence breakthroughs arrive on what seems to be a near-weekly basis, the race between the US and China continues to intensify. In this post and the next,…
By Michael M. Rosen | April 21, 2026
Part 1 of 2 on a damning new paper that takes on the top-down climate-economics literature — “The empirically inscrutable climate-economy relationship”
By Roger Pielke Jr. | April 20, 2026
Anthropic’s launch of Project Glasswing should be understood less as a product announcement and more as a policy warning.
By Shane Tews | April 20, 2026