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
U.S. companies released 40 major AI models last year; China released 15, and Europe, just three. This is not an accident. Innovation thrives in environments that allow many ideas to compete, evolve…
By Mark Jamison | November 6, 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
The federal government may be shut down, but Congress continues to cause chaos. As the 2025 legislative session comes to an end, lawmakers are taking advantage of the lull to…
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
The new director of the Patent Office is wasting little time on the job, announcing several new rules and practices that will make it more difficult to challenge the validity…
By Michael M. Rosen | October 28, 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
week’s major outage of Amazon Web Services’ cloud operation once again highlights the vulnerability of the world’s commercial, government, and social interactions due to a reliance on a handful of…
By Bronwyn Howell | October 24, 2025
In the First Amendment’s lexicon, self-censorship and chilling effect are close companions. They’re like road-trip buddies, calling society’s attention to the dangers of preemptive, self-imposed—not government-mandated—silence while traveling down today’s…
By Clay Calvert | October 22, 2025