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May 12, 2025|Podcasts

Decoding the Techno-Economic Power Struggle, With Alex Capri

There is a clear linkage between technology and national security, economic strength and social stability.

May 12, 2025|Blogs

Never Fight a Multi-Front Trade War: Why the United States Will Lose

Chinese advanced industries may not have U.S. market access after the trade war, but they will have the rest of the world’s. American companies will be left with the scraps of the U.S. market. Scale will determine the winner.

May 12, 2025|Blogs

The DOJ’s Problematic Remedies Proposal in the Google Ad Tech Case

Obsessions with “Big Business” and “Tryanny.com” appear to have trumped not just fashioning legally sound antitrust relief, but winning the United States’ geopolitical competition with China.

May 12, 2025|Testimonies & Filings

Comments to OMB Regarding Deregulation

As part of its deregulation efforts, the administration should clarify Bayh-Dole march-in rights; rescind NIH Access Planning Policy; rescind FRA two-person train crew requirements; clarify requirements for manually operated driving controls; protect America’s innovative clean-energy technologies; and streamline regulatory permitting for semiconductors.

May 12, 2025|Blogs

If AI Training Is Theft, Then Everyone’s a Thief

The UK should reject misleading claims that AI training is theft and instead adopt a modern, permissive copyright framework that protects creativity while enabling the innovation needed to become a global AI leader.

May 9, 2025|Blogs

Fact of the Week: 20.5 Percent of Frequent Generative AI Users Report Saving Four or More Hours Weekly at Work

A survey conducted in November 2024 finds that 20.5 percent of workers who used generative AI at least once over the previous week reported saving four hours or more in work time.

May 9, 2025|Commentary

China’s “Minor Mode”: Blueprint or Cautionary Tale?

China’s new “minor mode” gives parents customizable tools to manage children’s online activity—offering a rare, less-restrictive model within China’s otherwise authoritarian digital policy that the U.S. can draw from while maintaining democratic values.

May 8, 2025|Blogs

Squaring the Trump Circle: Free Markets and Tariffs

President Trump sees tariffs as an across-the-board global price reset, wherein the market, not the government, selects the firms that succeed behind America’s tariff wall.

May 7, 2025|Testimonies & Filings

Comments to the Bureau of Industry and Security Regarding Its Section 232 Investigation of Pharmaceutical Imports

Instead of blanket tariffs, America should focus first on persuading other nations to pay their fair share, and then on supporting public-private investments in novel technologies that will make U.S. pharmaceutical producers more innovative and cost-competitive.

May 7, 2025|Testimonies & Filings

Comments to the Bureau of Industry and Security Regarding Its Section 232 Investigation of Semiconductor Imports

The administration should focus foremost on addressing China’s mercantilist policies and resist the urge to impose blanket tariffs on U.S. imports of semiconductors, semiconductor inputs, or products with embedded semiconductors.

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