News Clips

Telecom Review cited research by ITIF on how smart city leaders can balance societal benefits with privacy concerns, noting that proper data security in smart cities begins with securing IoT devices, which function as the 'nervous system' of the smart city.

Speaking to Business Insider, Stephen Ezell commented that Intel becoming a globally competitive US chip manufacturer is "imperative for the US economy and national security," because America needs to secure its domestic supply chains of the chips that power items like iPhones, washing machines, and military equipment.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Castro noted that doing away with the Biden administration's executive order on AI could cut red tape and speed up product launches. On the other hand, it could make things harder for enterprises, who would have to take on the onus of investigating AI model safety.

Joe Coniglio spoke to Marketplace for a story about parallels between the Justice Department's current case against Google and its past effort to break up Microsoft. In the real world, innovation sometimes requires massive scale, Coniglio noted.

Daniel Castro commented to CQ Roll Call that if Former President Donald Trump wins reelection, “they would just pull the plug” on the Biden administration's executive order on AI and national security, and go their own way.

The Wall Street Journal quoted Rob Atkinson in an article about the potential geopolitical consequences of America’s manufacturing decline.

Business Insider interviewed Stephen Ezell about U.S. efforts to produce semiconductors. “A Harris administration would probably be more likely to advance a CHIPS Act 2.0, just given the Democratic Party's general endorsement of industrial policy and willingness to invest significant sums to support industrial policy,” said Ezell. “A Trump administration would probably not be opposed to a CHIPS Act 2.0, but it would probably be less likely to instigate one.”

A column in Forbes cited ITIF research on Chinese innovation in the biopharma industry.

Science interviewed ITIF President Rob Atkinson for an analysis of “the stakes for science” in the 2024 election.

Interviewing ITIF President Rob Atkinson about the East Coast dockworkers' strike, Rich Lowry notes in the National Review that we might think we live in a time of revolutionary technological change, but we aren’t seeing big productivity gains, because much of our new technology has been poured into the consumer market—smartphones, social media, online retail, and the like.