Commentary

The first Trump administration made significant progress in several areas. But there is much more work still to do. Here are five guiding principles and two concrete first steps to modernize regulations for crops, livestock, and microbes improved through biotechnology.

The UK’s new Data (Use and Access) Bill aims to enable AI and data-driven services, reviving parts of the previous DPDI Bill. To seize post-EU opportunities, it should adopt provisions tightening personal data definitions and aligning government-ICO priorities.

DOJ has decided to use its very fortunate victory in court to effectively destroy Google by chopping off two of its core businesses and turning what’s left of the company into an almost de facto public utility.

As of 2023, the United States leads the OECD in 5G connectivity with 68.4 connections per 100 inhabitants.

Jason M. Allen, an artist whose AI-generated image won a digital art competition prize in 2022, recently sued the U.S. Copyright Office for rejecting his application for copyright of the image. In its refusal to grant copyright protection to Allen’s work—which he created using 624 prompts on the generative AI platform Midjourney—the Copyright Office argued that the artist’s creative process to generate the award-winning image did not meet the criteria for “human authorship as we understand it.”

Immigrants, whom make up about 14 to 15 percent of the U.S. population, have an outsized role in entrepreneurship, starting over 20 percent of new businesses in America.

Private ISPs have invested the equivalent of 2 BEAD programs every year since the BEAD statute was enacted.

Blocking an entire age group from social media uses a regulatory sledgehammer instead of a scalpel to address complex and evolving online safety issues. It ignores the benefits of social media for young people and the pitfalls of age-verification rules.

Calvin Coolidge was right when he said, “the chief business of the American people is business.” We need to reembrace that ethos by making sure our social contract rewards companies that bring new innovations to market, boost productivity, fight like hell for global market share, and sustain as many high-value jobs at home as is economically feasible.

Thousands of creators signed a statement opposing AI's unlicensed use of creative works, calling it a threat to livelihoods. But this overlooks that AI training uses public data within established norms, creators resist adapting to change, and copyright already protects against unauthorised use.