AI Export Controls Foisted On China Come Back To The Haunt The U.S.
Tech genius in the U.S. and China formerly combined on the path to remarkable technological leaps, leaps that would result in faster progress and pay.
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Writing by John Tamny and Parkview contributors, from the latest commentary to the collected archive.
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Clear filtersKeeping U.S. Technology Out Of China Will Not Boost National Security
National security is incredibly expensive, and by extension an effect of a strong and growing economy.
Data Centers Exemplify Global Cooperation, and Its Attendant Peace
Data centers will do more to enhance global peace than any weapon, treaty, or statesman could ever hope to. A walk of even a tiny portion of one would confirm the previous truth to even the most…
There's No AI Victory For the U.S. Without the World's Workers
While most know the Los Angeles Dodgers for their Japanese stars, including Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamato, the overall roster includes another Japanese player, one from Venezuela, one from…
“Chinese” AI Is Very American, And “American” AI Is Very Chinese
China and the U.S. aren't in an artificial intelligence "war" with each other, rather they're joined at the hip to the certain betterment of AI.
By Doing and Thinking For Us, AI Will Render Us Smarter Than Ever
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to drive a human knowledge explosion. The latter speaks to the genius of machines that do and think for us. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.
Data Center Proliferation Foretells Rapidly Falling Electricity Prices
Data centers will eventually drive down electricity prices, perhaps to zero. If not, close to zero.
Without The Chinese, The U.S. Can’t Win The AI Race With China
AI, like any other technological endeavor, is people driven.
The AI Race Isn’t The U.S. Vs. China, It’s A War For Human Capital
How unfortunate if the U.S. loses the AI race not because it’s not competitive, but because politics needlessly got in the way.
With His Calls For An AI Slowdown, Dario Amodei Doth Protest Too Much
For AI companies who’ve yet to go public, AI’s dangerous mystery is seemingly its life.
The Genius of Data Centers Isn't Blue Collar Job Creation, It's Their Erasure
Conservatives and libertarians must stop pandering. They’ve long done it with taxes and education, and now they’re doing it with data centers.
Don't Blame Chinese 'Psyops' for Data Center Angst
There are 7,700 McDonald’s stores in China, with plans for 10,000 by 2028. McDonald’s is one of many potent symbols of Americana that’s proliferating in China. Which is the underlying point of a…
To Ease His AI Worries, Bill Gates Should Meet Karl Ravech
“I still have difficulty walking in the door and believing I work here.” That's Karl Ravech, in a 1993 interview with the Syracuse Post-Standard.
Moderna Is Now a Cancer Company, and It's Not the Only One Pivoting
It won’t stop with melanoma. Yes, you read that right. That’s the beauty of commercial leaps. They beget copious investment in search of the advances given life by the original advance.
The Frontier for Cancer Cures Continues to Expand
Higher drug prices are bullish. Yes, you read that right. What's pricey signals a development achievement that will soon be enjoyed by all income classes at much lower price points.
The Profit Motive Is Vivifying Karl Marx's Beautiful Vision
The profit motive produces its own “gravediggers.” That’s what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels argued in The Communist Manifesto.
Banning Open-Weight AI Models Could Cost America the AI Race
America will win the race to superintelligence unless we defeat ourselves. Unfortunately, there is a scenario where that happens — and as a policy matter, it’s already under…
Heavy Energy Consumption Is the Greatest Feature of Data Centers
In speeches, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells rapt audiences that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is “work.” Yes, precisely. Jensen’s pithy explanation of what AI truly is speaks to the towering potential…
The Sheer Wonder and Meaning Found In a Tesla Ride
Last Saturday, I strolled over to the St. Stephen's Farmers Market. I never buy anything. I eat all my meals out, but it's usually a good venue to walk around and spot nice-looking, nubile…
How AI Will Create Youthful Passion for Capitalism
AI will do more to elevate capitalism in the eyes of the young than any other advance. See Elon Musk to understand why. It turns out his teachers in South Africa thought he was touched. What to take…
Mark Zuckerberg Articulates the Brilliant AI Future Ahead
Everyone sucks at something. In a baseball sense, that’s why “five tool” players are paid so well. They can not only hit for average, but they can also hit for power, run the bases with great speed,…
Data Centers Aren’t Crowding Out Investment, They’re Expanding It
Data centers, and the $1 trillion+ that is being invested in their creation, are “causing” overall weakness in the U.S. economy. That’s according to former Biden White House economic official,…
Biden Fueled China’s Chip Boom, but Trump Can Restore America’s Lead
While Americans were firing up grills and welcoming the start of summer over Memorial Day weekend, a quiet bombshell dropped half a world away that has reshaped the global artificial intelligence…
It’s Not Fair To Peggy Noonan’s People To Slow AI’s Arrival
Peggy Noonan is asking if we can “Survive” the AI revolution? Her skepticism about Silicon Valley has her predicting that a tendency to isolate will grow with AI, that “It will pull people away from…