New verification tools could make AI governance credible without requiring states or firms to expose their secrets. Whether you’re checking that a child has brushed their teeth or that your nuclear-armed foe…
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The U.S. Restricted Data Transfers Abroad. Cast as an Assertion of Sovereignty, the New Posture Signals Weakness in Great-Power Competition. For most of the internet era, the United States has preached the…
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Technology companies cite security risks to push back against antitrust regulation. Are these real risks or just efforts to evade regulation? The recent introduction of the Digital Markets Act in the European Union kicked…
A cable endorsing a social media platform by name as a tool of U.S. diplomacy and military psychological operations would have been unthinkable—until recently. Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a cable this week…
Privatized cyberwar will complicate oversight, create counterintelligence risks, fuel arms races and insecurity, and put civilians at risk. On March 6, the Trump administration published its long-awaited cyberstrategy. Among its themes is a conspicuously…
On Feb. 12, an X account for Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the crypto trading platform FTX, posted, “Under Biden, companies were forced offshore. Under @realDonaldTrump, they’re welcome back in America. Insane…
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As increasingly realistic deepfakes depict us against our will, a century-old law originally made for cameras may offer a solution. In the past few weeks, news about Grok—xAI’s generative artificial intelligence (AI)…
On March 20, the White House released its long-awaited National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence for Congress. The four-page document, described by the White House as a “comprehensive national legislative framework,” is thin on…
Allowing this unprecedented practice to continue risks making the United States both economically weaker and less safe. In late December, in what seemed like the end of a five-year saga, TikTok agreed to spin…
OMB’s latest memo promotes neutral AI in government but allows vendor self-evaluation and weak scrutiny of existing contracts. On Dec. 11, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a new…
