TRINA MACHACEK Even though I have been told over and over again that an app, short for application, is a software program designed to run on mobile devices like phones, tablets, or smartwatches, I have no idea what an app is. Machacek TRINA MACHACEK Can I learn about them. Well of course I can. I…
Will blocking China from accessing relatively high-performing AI chips help the U.S. maintain global AI leadership? Perhaps counterintuitively, the answer is no. Starving China’s supply of U.S.-designed AI chips will have the opposite effect, as it will push China to more effectively develop and deploy its own AI chip capacity and ecosystem. This, in turn,…
“What happened to Elon Musk’s America Party? It’s been a month and we’re still waiting.” – Indy100 The America Party was announced in the middle of a public breakup between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. The two parted ways at the end of May. Musk criticized Trump’s signature tax cut and his “Big Beautiful…
The fates of breakthrough technologies and the energy to power them are deeply interwoven, with progress at scale in one difficult to advance without the other. Nowhere is this interconnection more consequential—and more dynamic—than in the U.S.-China relationship, which is marked by intense political tensions and competition, but also by under-appreciated technical overlap. Given the…
43min Certainly a more tame start to second half. Both teams are going to the sky and Australia have just won a penalty. Oh here we go. Another fight has broken out. James Ryan is laid out on the floor and doesn’t look in great condition, and out of nowhere we have more throat-grabbing. Ryan…
After ending yesterday’s choppy trading session little changed, stocks may move to the upside in early trading on Wednesday. The major index futures are currently pointing to a modestly higher open for the markets, with the S&P 500 futures up 0.2 percent. The upward momentum on Wall Street may partly reflect optimism about a potential…
Butch Meily is president of the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation, IdeaSpace, and QBO Innovation. He is the author of the new memoir From Manila to Wall Street: An Immigrant’s Journey with America’s First Black Tycoon. In 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy created a new federal agency, the United States International Agency for Development (USAID)….
Stocks have moved mostly lower during trading on Monday, giving back ground after moving sharply higher over the past several sessions. The major averages have all moved to the downside, although selling pressure has remained relatively subdued. Currently, the major averages are just off their lows of the session. The Nasdaq is down 143.48 points…
“It was a good allround performance,” he said. “The first half was a bit tough, heavily contested, back and forth but we stayed consistent. As a team today we just wanted to be better and I thought we were a little bit. “We need to be better rugby players, sharper more accurate. We broke the…
There is a lot of discussion in Washington and Beijing about the implications of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, but no clear consensus on how AI advances will impact how the world’s two leading powers relate to each other. In the following collection of short essays, Brookings scholars from different disciplines offer their forecasts on…