Rebuilding the Transatlantic Tech Alliance: Why Innovation, Not Regulation, Should Guide the Way
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Rebuilding the Transatlantic Tech Alliance: Why Innovation, Not Regulation, Should Guide the Way

As artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and digital infrastructure reshape global power dynamics, the relationship between the United States and the European Union stands at a critical crossroads. Yet the EU’s…

Why AI Struggles with Basic Math (and How That’s Changing)
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Why AI Struggles with Basic Math (and How That’s Changing)

Large Language Models (LLMs) have ushered in a new era of artificial intelligence (AI) demonstrating remarkable capabilities in language generation, translation, and reasoning. Yet, LLMs often stumble over basic math…

Internet Expression: Yesteryear’s Supreme Court Rhetoric Meets Roberts’s Reality Check
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Internet Expression: Yesteryear’s Supreme Court Rhetoric Meets Roberts’s Reality Check

Chief Justice John Roberts’ 2024 year-end report about the federal judiciary garnered significant mainstream news attention because of its focus on threats to both judicial independence and individual jurists. A Wall Street Journal headline crisply captured the…

The Future of the Enterprise Browser: Highlights from My Conversation with Scott Montgomery
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The Future of the Enterprise Browser: Highlights from My Conversation with Scott Montgomery

Web browsers are built for convenience—prioritizing speed, compatibility, and ease of use. But what happens when a browser isn’t for just an individual user but for an entire enterprise? In…

Trump as Information Gatekeeper: Controlling Access, Controlling Narratives
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Trump as Information Gatekeeper: Controlling Access, Controlling Narratives

President Donald Trump increasingly is playing the role of information gatekeeper, striving to control access to venues—technological and physical—where important expressive activities occur. By dictating access on his terms, Trump…

Trump as Information Gatekeeper: Controlling Access, Controlling Narratives
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Trump as Information Gatekeeper: Controlling Access, Controlling Narratives

President Donald Trump increasingly is playing the role of information gatekeeper, striving to control access to venues—technological and physical—where important expressive activities occur. By dictating access on his terms, Trump…

Free Speech or Culpable Conduct? When Role-playing Chatbots Allegedly Harm Minors
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Free Speech or Culpable Conduct? When Role-playing Chatbots Allegedly Harm Minors

In November, I examined a federal lawsuit filed by a Florida mother who claims that Character.AI ––a platform operated by Character Technologies, Inc.––and affiliated companies Alphabet and Google are civilly liable for…

Trump v. CBS: When Politics, Journalism, Business, and FCC Authority Collide
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Trump v. CBS: When Politics, Journalism, Business, and FCC Authority Collide

Shortly after Donald Trump sued CBS in October over what he called “false, misleading, deceptive, and, therefore, unconscionable and detrimental news distortion” in editing a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, I contended that the lawsuit…

The Critical Role of Administration Officials in America’s AI Future
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The Critical Role of Administration Officials in America’s AI Future

As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms the global economy, the success of America’s AI strategy depends on the expertise and leadership of administration officials nominated and confirmed by Congress. These public…

Resilience: The New Challenge for Digital Systems Policy
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Resilience: The New Challenge for Digital Systems Policy

Yesterday around 11:00 am, while working from home preparing course material for the next university semester, all Microsoft cloud-related connection to my university was severed. No OneDrive access to my…

Unshackle States to Deliver on Broadband Promises
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Unshackle States to Deliver on Broadband Promises

The Biden administration’s handling of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program exemplifies why Americans turned to Donald Trump to be their president: big promises, bureaucratic bloat,…

Lessons from China’s DeepSeek: A Wake-Up Call for AI Innovation
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Lessons from China’s DeepSeek: A Wake-Up Call for AI Innovation

In just a week, Chinese startup DeepSeek’s latest reasoning model erased a trillion dollars in market value, sparked new security concerns, and upended conventional wisdom about AI development. This forced…

Taking On Government Bureaucracy (with Shane Bigelow)
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Taking On Government Bureaucracy (with Shane Bigelow)

DMVs are notoriously slow, primarily because of outdated systems that constitute the foundation of their operations. Nevertheless, these processes can be greatly improved by adopting modern, efficient solutions. Such innovations…

When Anti-Press Ascendancy Meets FCC Public Interest Regulation
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When Anti-Press Ascendancy Meets FCC Public Interest Regulation

Let’s start with an understatement: President Donald Trump isn’t happy with the way most American journalists are doing their jobs. During a December press conference, he proclaimed “we have to straighten out…

Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un Sitting in a Juche Tree…
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Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un Sitting in a Juche Tree…

One of the enduring mysteries from the first Trump term as president is the source of the ostensible deep affection between the two, as expressed, for example, in letters that they exchanged.…