A Tale of Four Fighter Jets
A terrorist attack takes place in Indian-administered Kashmir. India blames Pakistan and vows to retaliate. A few days later, India conducts airstrikes in Pakistani territory, the two sides exchange fire, ...
Tag: Science and Technology
U.S. AI Leadership Needs Smarter Controls
The DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence model has been a wake-up call for the U.S. technology sector, prompting calls for stricter export controls to curb China’s access to advanced technologies. But as ...
Is It Too Late to Slow China’s AI Development?
For a company worth nearly $3 trillion, facing an unexpected cost of a few billion dollars may sound relatively paltry. But U.S. chipmaker Nvidia’s announcement in a regulatory filing earlier ...
Europe’s Failed Mission to Space
On March 30, a German start-up launched a rocket designed to place small satellites into orbit from Europe. Taking off from Norway’s Andøya spaceport above the Arctic Circle, it was ...
Washington May Regret Overextended AI Chip Controls
On April 15, U.S. chipmaker Nvidia published a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicating that the government has restricted the company from selling its less advanced graphics ...
Digital Public Infrastructure Could Make a Better Internet
Artificial intelligence may be technology’s hottest topic—more important than electricity or fire, according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai—but another has a plausible claim to second. Digital public infrastructure, or DPI, ...
A Viral App Is Exposing the Limits of Tariffs
In an inflation-anxious United States, a Chinese app named after a Silk Road city briefly became the second-most downloaded app last week—trailing only behind ChatGPT. It’s not for artificial intelligence. ...
Trump’s Tariffs Hit Hard Tech Realities
The flurry of on-again, off-again tariffs that U.S. President Donald Trump has unleashed have thus far exempted the semiconductor chips that power much of the modern economy. That may be ...
Is the Trump Administration SNAFU or FUBAR?
The Signal scandal that engulfed Washington last week constitutes a major breach of US national security. To say that it was an egregious error to invite a national security reporter ...
Europe Must Avoid Becoming a Digital Colony
Europe is under siege—not by armies but by supply chains and algorithms. Rare-earth minerals, advanced semiconductors, and critical artificial intelligence systems all increasingly lie in foreign hands. As the U.S.-China ...
