Press Releases

Warren and Hawley are right to crack down on powerful drug middlemen, but they risk kneecapping the very biopharmaceutical innovators who develop the medicines patients depend on.

The European Commission’s latest antitrust action against Meta over access to WhatsApp undermines transatlantic leadership in AI. The lawsuit rests on an implausible notion of dominance, ignores clear procompetitive justifications, and risks benefiting China.

While U.S.-based firms still lead in advanced industry research and development, size- and wage-adjusted data show China-based firms are rapidly closing the gap, a shift that threatens America’s techno-economic leadership and industrial strength absent stronger policy support.

ITIF and a broad coalition of other leading think tanks, trade associations, and policy experts today urged the U.S. House Subcommittee on Trade to hold hearings on the growing wave of “non-tariff attacks” that foreign governments have launched against U.S. technology companies.

Over 70 percent of public servants now use AI, but only 18 percent say governments are using it effectively, according to the Public Sector AI Adoption Index 2026, released today by Public First for the Center for Data Innovation, with sponsorship from Google.

While it is likely too late for the United States to win the techno-economic-trade war with China, America must and can avoid losing it. Doing so will require bold new approaches to strengthen the U.S. techno-industrial-economic system and halt the erosion of U.S. power industry capabilities.

Following a vote in France to advance legislation that would restrict users under 15 from using social media, ITIF issued the following statement from Senior Policy Manager Ash Johnson.

The EU–India trade deal is a wake-up call for Washington, highlighting how U.S. exporters are falling behind as other nations cut tariffs and reshape global trade.

In response to Congress announcing funding legislation that extends CISA 2015 through the end of Fiscal Year 2026, ITIF issued the following statement from Research Assistant David Kertai.

ITIF released a statement from Joseph V. Coniglio following the FTC’s decision to appeal Judge Boasberg’s ruling in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia holding that Meta did not engage in illegal monopolization through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.