The 2024 Artificial Intelligence Index, released by Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), delivers crucial insights into AI’s influence and developments. This detailed yearly report presents a data-based overview…
By John Bailey | April 30, 2024
A federal judge recently issued an injunction to block the approval of a powerline that would have connected 161 renewable energy projects to the electric grid, providing more clean energy to consumers…
By James W. Coleman | Arnab Datta | April 28, 2024
In the late nineteenth century, the latest new-fangled invention was the motor car. In both Europe and the United States, regulations required a man waving a red flag to walk ahead of…
By Bronwyn Howell | April 26, 2024
Here’s a quick aural exercise in property rights: Think about Tom Petty . . . and now hear him (in your mind) singing the words “glide down over Mulholland.” Or hear Billie Eilish in…
By Clay Calvert | April 25, 2024
Last Thursday, Meta announced the newest iteration of its large language model (LLM), Llama 3. The newest model will aim to dislodge OpenAI as the market leader through various improvements driven…
By Bronwyn Howell | April 25, 2024
In an age where technology evolves at an unprecedented pace, it’s hard to justify clinging to outdated modes of communication, especially when superior alternatives exist. This brings us to the…
By Shane Tews | April 24, 2024
In early 2020, as a California privacy law came into effect and other states toyed with similar legislation, I talked with a heavy hitter at one of the big tech companies about…
By Will Rinehart | April 23, 2024
As laid out in my last blog, Huawei continues to demonstrate that it has maneuvered, at least partially, around US-imposed restrictions on advanced chips. Last week, it introduced a more advanced version of…
By Claude Barfield | April 23, 2024
It is Earth Day 2024, an annual exercise in self-applause that always is too much fun because of the inanities, hypocrisies, mendacities, and sheer stupidity of the Earth Day slogans, arguments, propaganda, and exhortations. And also because of the embarrassing spectacle…
By Benjamin Zycher | April 22, 2024
Those who look forward to Apple (yet again) redefining the technological horizon, like it did with the iPhone, may need to temper their expectations. The US Department of Justice (DOJ)…
By Mark Jamison | April 19, 2024
As the country races into its digital transformation, the expansion of broadband across the United States has become a pivotal undertaking. There are numerous state and federal efforts, fueled largely by over $70…
By Mark Jamison | April 19, 2024
During the tumultuous cancel-culture summer of 2020, police officer George Forbush publicly vented his anger about the beating a person suffered at a Black Lives Matter (BLM) march. After watching video of the…
By Clay Calvert | April 16, 2024
Toward the end of this month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold a vote to reinstate a set of rules for internet providers. Consisting of 434 pages and resembling a 2015…
By Will Rinehart | April 16, 2024
Little more than two years from the last significant attempt to modernize our national privacy law in the failed American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), US House Committee on Energy and…
By John Bailey | April 15, 2024
On April 25, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote to reinstate net neutrality rules and reclassify broadband providers as Title II common carriers. Since the agency signaled its intentions…
By Daniel Lyons | April 12, 2024