Artificial intelligence

December 30, 2025 | Jack Burnham |

China’s Rapid Military Build-Up Highlighted in New Report

The United States is facing an ever-more sophisticated Chinese military. On December 23, the Department of Defense released its annual report on the state of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The report...

December 22, 2025 | Jack Burnham, Dr. Georgianna Shea, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Craig Singleton

Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise

December 18, 2025 | Annie Fixler, Branson Chi

AI Is a Gift to Cyber Scammers and Nation-State Hackers This Holiday Season

This holiday season, the Grinch is using a computer to steal Christmas. The Department of Treasury’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP) released its annual consumer...

December 10, 2025 | Jack Burnham |

Rolling Back Export Controls, U.S. Offers China Powerful AI Chips

The United States has instituted a pay-to-play scheme for artificial intelligence (AI) exports. On December 8, President Donald Trump announced that the Commerce Department would allow American AI semiconductor...

December 2, 2025 | Nathan Picarsic |

The US-China Crossroads: Time for American Corporates to Choose Sides

In June 2023, rumors swirled online in China that Microsoft Research Asia would be rapidly shuttering its presence in China and relocating to Vancouver. Such a move would have made sense given intensifying...

November 26, 2025 | Leah Siskind |

America’s AI Stack Needs an Israeli Upgrade

The Department of Commerce should consider Israeli AI security companies for its trusted partner program to ensure the US tech stack is the global standard.

November 26, 2025 | Jack Burnham, Leah Siskind

DeepSeek May Intentionally Produce Malicious Code Due to Chinese Political Bias, Research Shows

China’s top artificial intelligence (AI) models don’t simply follow the Communist Party line — they act on it. On November 20, the cybersecurity firm CloudStrike published a study suggesting that...

November 18, 2025 | Jack Burnham, Craig Singleton, Leah Siskind

American AI Exports Program

November 10, 2025 | Jack Burnham, Duncan Lazarow

Signaling Confidence in Its Domestic Industry, China Bans Foreign AI Chips in State-Funded Data Centers

China is pulling away from the United States to complete its own artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem. Following a ceasefire with the United States over export controls, China is signaling its intention...

October 29, 2025 | Jack Burnham |

New Tech Transfer Between UAE and China Should Throw Sand in the Gears of U.S. AI Exports to the Gulf

The United States may have inadvertently green-lit funding for Chinese missile technology. On October 25, the Financial Times reported that U.S. intelligence agencies had collected information in 2022...

October 29, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

America needs energy dominance

We’re in an arms race and there can be only one winner

October 17, 2025 | Craig Singleton, Jack Burnham, Daniel Swift

Section 232 National Security Investigation of Imports of Robotics and Industrial Machinery

October 7, 2025 | Jack Burnham |

New Major Study Suggests DeepSeek Still Lags Behind Top American Models and Presents Major Security Flaws

In a head-to-head matchup over the future of artificial intelligence (AI), the United States appears to be winning — for now. On September 30, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation at the National...

October 3, 2025 | Nathan Picarsic, Emily de La Bruyère

China Could Win AI Fight

In August, Chinese researchers debuted the world’s largest brain-inspired supercomputer. The Darwin Monkey is just the latest in a string of People’s Republic of China (PRC) artificial intelligence...

September 18, 2025 | Jack Burnham |

Chinese Regulators Announce Ban on Buying Nvidia Chips, Showcasing Confidence in Domestic Alternatives

China has begun to cut its last ties to America’s artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem. On September 17, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issued guidance to Chinese firms advising them...

September 9, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Dr. Erica Lonergan, Joe Dougherty

Building the Future U.S. Cyber Force

What Right Looks Like

September 8, 2025 | Craig Singleton, Jack Burnham, Miles Kershner

Why Export Controls Work: 5 Debunked Myths About U.S.-China AI Competition

America’s artificial intelligence (AI) edge faces a determined challenger: Chinese leader Xi Jinping...

September 1, 2025 | Jack Burnham, Annie Fixler

China Is Winning the AI Race With America’s Own Manhattan Project Lessons

China is applying the real lessons of the Manhattan Project to AI—talent and steady research funding—while America risks forgetting its own blueprint.

August 11, 2025 | Matt Pottinger, Liza Tobin

Trump Just Handed China the Tools to Beat America in AI

Ending an export ban will help China catch up in the race for control of the global economy and military dominance in the 21st century.

August 11, 2025 | Jack Burnham |

White House Offers NVIDIA and AMD a Pay-To-Play Scheme for Chinese Market Access

The U.S. government is going into business with America’s most potent adversary, China. On August 10, The New York Times reported that chipmakers NVIDIA and AMD will receive export licenses to sell high-end...