The CTO of Palantir Technologies Shyam Sankar recently criticized Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's idea that selling products in China would ultimately serve U.S. interests by making China dependent on American technology. Sankar argued that deepening economic dependence on China would only finance America's own destruction. Huang, for his part, has...
Two staffers at Article 19 Digital have declared that the AWS outage is a “democratic failure.” On its face, this is a really weird argument. What failed, exactly, other than Amazon’s DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1? How can a technical outage be a failure of democratic...
In mid-September 2025, U.S. and Chinese officials convened in Madrid for a high-level negotiation that yielded a breakthrough on the TikTok deal: a “basic framework consensus” for resolving the long dispute over the platform. This meeting marked the fourth round of China–U.S. trade and technology negotiations since Trump announced new...
Inflated expectations, inflated assets, inflated capital investments, bad policy. It’s all got to end pretty soon. Artificial intelligence applications are everywhere. They unlock your phone, correct your spelling, redesign your slide presentations, recommend videos, scan and summarize reports and papers, converse with you. All these use cases are different, yet...
There are many reasons to be concerned about freedom of expression in America these days. But one of them, and perhaps the most insidious, is going under the radar. I am talking about the framework agreement under which TikTok’s US application would be “operated” and substantially controlled by a US...
It is a depressing sign of our illiberal times: the assassination of a right-wing youth organizer who embraced public debate and engaged in provocative free speech has provoked sweeping new threats to public debate and freedom of expression – from his own supporters. Even before we knew who the...
The dominance of the US dollar has been increasingly contested in recent times. Rising US debt levels, coordinated de-dollarization efforts among BRICS economies, and the rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) and cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin raise questions about dollar hegemony in the digital age. A recent event hosted...
On Thursday, September 11, IGP will host a webinar with Patrick McGee, the author of “Apple in China.” This well-researched book tells the story of Apple’s symbiotic relationship with manufacturing companies in China - how it evolved, what it accomplished, and what currently threatens it. McGee is a business journalist...
What? A moderated webinar on Dr. Milton Mueller’s new book When? Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 10-11 AM ET Where? On Zoom https://tinyurl.com/yh9m8wh8 On three separate occasions this year, I heard the phrase “Who reads books anymore?” The deluge of LLM content has certainly disrupted the information space. That transformation makes...
It’s time to realize that our industrial policy for semiconductors is failing. It was built on three pillars: subsidies to encourage re-shoring of fabrication, export controls that made trade in chips a function of our political alliances; and an attempt to maintain a competitive advantage in the digital by decoupling...
Declaring Independence in Cyberspace tells the story of the struggle between governments and the global Internet community over control of the Internet registries (IANA). It offers new insights into a pressing question with profound implications: is state sovereignty the immutable foundation of global governance, or can new technological capabilities change the model?
“This is a book that needed to be written, and no one is better placed to write it than Milton Mueller. This full, rigorous account provides researchers and policymakers with a precious resource on global internet governance.”
