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
At the Roots of Progress Conference this weekend, Jen Pahlka, who was formerly the United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer under President Obama, related a harrowing experience she had. While…
By Will Rinehart | October 21, 2025
Last week, the Treasury Department finished receiving responses to a request for comments on “Innovative Methods To Detect Illicit Activity Involving Digital Assets.” It turns out I have such a…
By Jim Harper | October 20, 2025
Email was created over 50 years ago—so why isn’t it secure? Sixty-eight percent of IT teams report a data breach in their organization caused by phishing in the last year.…
By Shane Tews | October 16, 2025
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr has been in the news a lot lately. Under his energetic leadership, the agency has pursued an ambitious agenda at a breakneck pace.…
By Daniel Lyons | October 16, 2025
As I testified before the Senate HELP Committee, AI is not just another wave of automation—it is a technology that democratizes expertise. Used responsibly, it can help teachers, clinicians, and…
By John Bailey | October 16, 2025
The global corporate leaderboard continues to showcase American innovation in tech. 80 percent of the world’s 25 largest companies are now based in the US, highlighting the strength of American…
By Shane Tews | October 15, 2025
At the 80th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York last month, the UN Member States formally launched two new initiatives: the Global Dialogue on AI…
By Bronwyn Howell | October 10, 2025
Ahead of a hearing today for the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Senator Bernie Sanders released a new report with a startling title: “The Big Tech Oligarchs’ War…
By Will Rinehart | October 9, 2025
Keeping up with and grasping the nuances of countless lawsuits blaming online media for injuries and deaths isn’t easy. Cataloging some cases and identifying fundamental commonalities and differences, however, can…
By Clay Calvert | October 7, 2025
America has a short but distinguished list of deregulatory heroes. Alfred Kahn, who led airline deregulation in the late 1970s, is one. As is President Jimmy Carter, who broke down…
By Mark Jamison | October 3, 2025