September 25, 2025
Can Small Tech Survive the Digital Markets Act?
On paper, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Union aims to promote more competition. However, in practice, the DMA design aimed at large tech companies actually disadvantages small tech companies by threatening their marketplace management. To discuss this, Shane Tews is joined by Graham Dufault, general counsel of the App Association. His experience…
September 24, 2025
More Problems with Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment
When Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) was released last week, headlines such as the above announced that “climate change could cost Australians $40 billion per year by 2050.” It turns out that claim is demonstrably false. Let’s take a close look. The NCRA asserts the $40 billion cost on p. 102: The Colvin Review (2024) projected disaster costs…
September 18, 2025
Beijing’s “Robot Army” Isn’t Science Fiction. It’s Already Here.
Why Robotics Matters to US National Security Robotics is not merely about improving manufacturing efficiency or making another billion off of consumer gadgets. It stands to reshape the future architecture of economic and military power. Banks and market research groups project the market for the machines and related services will surge to $7 trillion by 2050,…
September 18, 2025
Trump’s TikTok Deal Is Lose-Lose Diplomacy
The Trump White House is about to claim a major win on TikTok. Don’t be fooled. The deal on the table is not a victory for U.S. national security – it is a face-saving compromise that leaves the most egregious threat unresolved. Since TikTok entered U.S. app stores in 2017, U.S. national security officials have…
September 15, 2025
How Tech Has Become the Economy’s Central Nervous System
When Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC)—the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturer—reports a 34 percent increase in August revenue, it’s more than just corporate success; it’s evidence of a fundamental economic shift, signaling that technology has become the centerpiece of modern commerce. The technology industry’s new economic reality is due to a shift from silicon to infrastructure…
September 8, 2025
What to Do About Fentanyl
Three hundred thousand kilograms of methamphetamine precursor chemicals sit in a Houston warehouse, their blue barrels arranged in an oddly orderly display of chaos. The chemicals — enough to produce a million kilos of meth — were bound for Sinaloa from China when U.S. authorities intercepted them last week. Officials celebrated it as the largest seizure in American history,…
September 5, 2025
The Adaptability Dividend: Survival in the Age of Glass-Cannon Technology
The founders of the American republic assumed malice would be constrained by material scarcity: Weapons were expensive, destructive power centralized, and the state’s police and military could deter or punish most offenders. That order is collapsing. The diffusion of advanced technologies is improving the destructive capacity of individuals faster than the defensive capabilities of states….
September 4, 2025
The Rising Cost of Cybercrime: From Billions to Trillions
More than $16 billion has been stolen in 2024 due to cybercrime schemes such as phishing and data breaches, with losses projected to reach the trillions in 2025. This sharp rise in activity can be partially attributed to a continued abuse of the Domain Name System, or DNS, which is exploited by cyber criminals who register domain…
August 25, 2025
Does the CHIPS and Science Act Argue for Industrial Policy?
This paper is part of AEI’s Center for Technology, Science, and Energy’s (CTSE) Science, Industry, and the State Project Key Points Executive Summary In the past decade, two compelling changes have occurred that call for revisiting the old debate of open markets versus industrial policy: China’s increasing economic role and political aggressiveness and the growing…
August 11, 2025
Breaking Language Barriers Through Multilingual Domains
Domain names act as the backbone of the internet, but as millions of users worldwide use it, many non-Latin script languages face barriers to fully accessing the internet. While multilingual domain names are technically possible, limited support across systems and platforms has made true language inclusion an ongoing challenge—and a key issue for global digital…