Press Releases

Following the European Commission’s announcement that it will soon launch an age verification app for its citizens to prove their age online, ITIF issued the following statement from Senior Policy Manager Ash Johnson.

If policymakers wind down NSF’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, they should fully redirect those funds to other critical areas like engineering and computer science. Cutting them altogether would weaken the U.S. research enterprise as global competitors accelerate their investments.

Artemis II's successful launch is a win for U.S. space leadership, but keeping that edge will require cutting red tape and expanding launch capacity, says Ellis Scherer.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority’s decision to forgo a strategic market status investigation into cloud services under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act is a prudent step, but it is tainted by its move to investigate Microsoft’s business software under the DMCCA.

In response to the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY14), the Center for Data Innovation issued the following statement from Senior Policy Manager Hodan Omaar.

Following a landmark Los Angeles verdict finding Meta and YouTube liable for platform design features that harmed a young user, ITIF released the following statement from Senior Policy Manager Ash Johnson.

In response to the White House’s release of its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, the Center for Data Innovation issued the following statement from Director Daniel Castro.

Congress has acted to restore one of America’s most effective innovation programs. Now the bill should be signed without delay.

In response to the European Commission’s proposal to create a so-called “28th regime” for Europe, ITIF released the following statement from Stephen Ezell, vice president of global innovation policy.

The discussion draft is less a legislative foundation for governing AI and more a mood board for a set of long-standing grievances with Big Tech. The backronym is strained, but the policy is even worse—forcing together weak ideas to advance a political agenda rather than meaningfully solving a policy problem.