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Canada is in a productivity crisis. Without targeted reforms to boost capital investment and modernize data collection, Canada will continue falling further behind in global competitiveness and economic growth.

A discretionary tariff on Apple will not have a positive short-term impact on manufacturing since Apple cannot instantly shift its production to the United States. Instead, such a measure would raise costs and signal to prospective investors that the United States is becoming an unpredictable and unreliable environment due to discretionary actions targeting specific firms.

The Trump administration is right to push back on the EU for its growing list of unjustified corporate penalties and digital regulations specifically targeting U.S. technology firms. If threatening to escalate tariffs succeeds in pressuring the EU to revisiting its unfair regulations, then it can be a positive step.

Blanket semiconductor tariffs will slam the economy, hike costs for businesses, and leave American households footing a $4,000 bill over the next decade.

The Center for Korean Innovation and Competitiveness calls for the South Korean government to shift from its longstanding strategy of export-led growth to a new model emphasizing broad-based technological innovation to boost productivity.

Following the FCC’s approval of the pending Verizon-Frontier merger, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the leading think tank for science and technology policy, released the following statement from Joe Kane.

Amid the House E&C markup and the GOP’s proposal to block state AI laws for 10 years, the Center for Data Innovation released the following statement from Senior Policy Manager Hodan Omaar.

Following today’s House of Lords vote to introduce amendments to the Data Use and Access Bill imposing new copyright restrictions on AI training, Ayesha Bhatti, head of digital policy for the UK and EU at the Center for Data Innovation, issued the following statement.

Following President Trump’s announcement on a new trade agreement with the UK, ITIF released the following statement from Rodrigo Balbontin, associate director covering trade, IP, and digital technology governance.

Following President Trump’s suggestion of imposing 100 percent tariffs on foreign films, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the leading think tank for science and technology policy, released the following statement from Rodrigo Balbontin.

Republicans in Congress are kicking the tires on a moratorium on state AI laws. But it’s likely a growing patchwork of state AI regulations will be here for a while, Kiplinger reports. “The United States is hurtling toward a fragmented web of conflicting rules that create uncertainty, raise costs, and stifle innovation,” said ITIF Senior Policy Manager Hodan Omaar.

The National Science Foundation, which funds much of the fundamental scientific research at U.S. universities, is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years, The New York Times reports. “These cuts are the height of self-inflicted harm,” said ITIF President Rob Atkinson.

Canada.com mentioned the Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness’s projection that Canadian families could face higher streaming costs if the Online Streaming Act requires five percent of streaming services’ revenues to be directed to government-administered media funds in an article about Steven Guilbeault overseeing the Act’s implementation in his new cabinet role.

The Week quoted Daniel Castro in an article about House Republicans’ push to block states from passing their own AI laws for the next ten years, where he explained that a patchwork of state regulations would cause delays and hinder innovation.

The Financial Times quoted Daniel Castro in a commentary piece on the looming battle in the U.S. Senate over which entities have the right to regulate—or deregulate—emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.

Engineering and Technology Magazine quoted Ayesha Bhatti, head of digital policy for the UK and EU at ITIF’s Center for Data Innovation, in coverage of the UK House of Lords vote to amend the Data (Use and Access) Bill to require AI companies to disclose which copyrighted materials were used to train their models.

Chosun Biz covered ITIF's opposition to the Trump administration’s proposal to impose semiconductor import tariffs, highlighting ITIF’s argument—submitted to the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce—that such tariffs could deter investment and ultimately undermine America’s technological leadership.

The Globe and Mail quoted Lawrence Zhang, head of policy at ITIF’s Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness, in a story about Canada appointing its first AI minister and the broader need to accelerate AI adoption among Canadian businesses.

The New York Post mentioned Robert Atkinson in a commentary piece about the limitations of Trump's recent China trade deal, with Atkinson arguing that the current approach risks undermining the most strategically important, technologically advanced American firms that are globally integrated.