The trade-off between resilience and efficiency in cloud-based data storage models begs consideration. Cloud-based models make an individual’s data available seamlessly, regardless of the device used. Data—and even the software…
By Bronwyn Howell | February 19, 2025
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine is expanding at an astonishing pace, mirroring the rapid advances in AI technology itself. Some experts within the field predict that in…
By Scott Gottlieb, MD | February 10, 2025
The era of Big Tech, artificial intelligence, Donald Trump, and the United States’ great-power competition with China has thrust technology policy to the center of our national politics. Are new…
By Anthony M. Mills | Christine Rosen | February 5, 2025
It was the future. It would demonstrate how to save the planet. It would produce electricity clean and cheap and immune to the vagaries of international shifts in prices, interest…
By Benjamin Zycher | February 3, 2025
There is little doubt that the emergence of low-orbit satellite services has revolutionized rural broadband connectivity. SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, has launched over 5,000 satellites, providing low-latency, fast, and…
By Bronwyn Howell | January 31, 2025
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, which involves a constitutional challenge to a Texas age verification law for websites containing sexually explicit…
By Daniel Lyons | January 30, 2025
If there was ever any doubt that US politics has conditioned the content carried by social media delivered worldwide, it was erased on January 7 when Meta announced it was…
By Bronwyn Howell | January 24, 2025
A recent social media clash that erupted between Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and Trump loyalists over high-skilled immigration reform exposed deep ideological rifts within the Republican coalition. But the importance of the debate over immigration…
By John Bailey | January 22, 2025
Under a standard of recency that allowed me to review a 40-year-old book in 2023, I want to celebrate the very recent publication, over a year ago, of two articles…
By Jim Harper | January 13, 2025
The nation can do better at forecasting AI-driven job and skill changes, including with a data-focused nonprofit that examines the technology’s impact. Markets are the killer app for efficiently organizing…
By Brent Orrell | January 3, 2025
When Makena, a drug designed to prevent preterm births, hit the market in 2011 at $1,500 per dose, it drew rife backlash. The drug was based on an active ingredient…
By Scott Gottlieb, M.D. | December 30, 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, we’re taking the time to look back and analyze some of the biggest developments in tech policy. The following represents the technology and innovation…
By The Editors | December 30, 2024
his thought-provoking book, Brave New Words, Sal Khan discusses his early experimentation with generative AI, or GenAI, models and how, over time, they might change education. If AI is a new…
By John Bailey | December 23, 2024
Event Summary On December 5, AEI’s Christine Rosen hosted a conference on understanding the shifting conception of truth in the media, especially as it relates to political culture and social…
By M. Anthony Mills | Christine Rosen | Will Rinhart | December 23, 2024
The United States holds a commanding lead in data-center capacity, hosting 37% of the world’s facilities, and being home to the largest data center providers — Amazon.com, Microsoft, and Alphabet. These data…
By Mark Jamison | December 23, 2024