Innovation Files Blog

An alleged Chinese espionage operation involving Nvidia’s former CEO has disrupted the company and fueled calls for tighter AI chip export restrictions. But sweeping new restrictions could further weaken American semiconductor companies and benefit Chinese competitors, making targeted enforcement a better approach.

South Korea should reject fee caps that could weaken services and growth opportunities, enforce existing competition law, and help restaurants adopt technologies that reduce operating costs and improve productivity.

The share of enterprises using AI to address these cybersecurity challenges more than doubled between 2021 and 2025, reaching 5.3 percent, or approximately one-quarter of all enterprises using AI.

Major agreements, new participants, and key diplomatic and industrial milestones in the U.S.-led Pax Silica initiative, which aims to secure global supply chains that underpin AI and other advanced technologies.

From 2020 to 2025, China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approved 94 novel oncology drugs, surpassing the 87 approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Science and math skills drive innovation and economic growth. However, U.S. students are not performing particularly well, especially when compared with China. Policymakers should view improving achievement in these subjects as key to maintaining the nation’s long-term economic and technological competitiveness.

According to the National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates, the number of science and engineering research doctorates awarded by U.S. universities increased 13.6 percent, from 41,247 in 2015 to 46,876 in 2025.

Policymakers should withdraw the proposed $70,000 Optional Practical Training fee and pursue targeted reforms that address fraud without driving away the scientists and engineers the United States needs.

Pew’s proposed broadband policies put government subsidies and mandates ahead of private investment, competition, and innovation which risks higher costs and worse outcomes for consumers.

The EU’s proposed KIDS ACT risks isolating children from valuable online communities through sweeping restrictions that fail to address specific harms or provide better alternatives.