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
Today, I share the latest data on normalized U.S. tornado losses since 1954 and a time series of the incidence of the strongest tornadoes since 1975. I doubt you’ll come…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | April 17, 2026
Safety by Design is anchored in a world of engineering certainty that defies the complex realities of outcomes coproduced by platforms and their users. Just as with playgrounds, the burden…
By Bronwyn Howell | April 17, 2026
Shane is joined by Marc Boiron and Nicoletta Kolpakov to discuss the road to widespread adoption of cryptocurrency.
By Shane Tews | April 16, 2026
The CFTC should stand down and let these anti-prediction-market states lose directly on the merits.
By Jim Harper | April 15, 2026
Anthropic’s First Amendment retaliation claim against the Department of War and Pete Hegseth spans two lawsuits and features two federal statutes affecting national security supply-chain risk designations. The artificial intelligence…
By Clay Calvert | April 14, 2026
I appreciate the invitation, surely a positive sign of an intellectual thaw. At the same time, the university gave in to a demand that I be removed from the original…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | April 13, 2026
Just over three months ago, Australia’s world-leading regulations attempting to ban social media use by under-16s came into force. The relevant regulator, the eSafety Commissioner, has released its first compliance…
By Bronwyn Howell | April 13, 2026
As the digitization of the economy accelerates, the friction points facing the adoption of cryptocurrency are becoming more evident. The benefits of on-ramping to stablecoin are obvious: faster and more…
| April 9, 2026
Today, I return to the FJC Manual to discuss another of its chapters: How Science Works, which underlies the entire volume. The chapter appears to be telling judges “how science…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | April 9, 2026
AI has been involved in a race to the bottom, but it’s been towards more alignment. The competitive pressure to release new models has also created powerful incentives to build…
By Will Rinehart | April 9, 2026