Artificial Intelligence

Why Big Tech’s energy problem might prove crucial to fighting climate change.

Economist Jared Bernstein warns that revenues simply aren’t catching up with sky-high valuations.

The obsession with powerful large language models overlooks the developing world.

Anti-Black videos speak to popular prejudices.

The U.N. forges ahead on climate and AI despite U.S. ambivalence and mixed messaging.

Artificial intelligence is not the most important part of the U.S.-China technology race, yet it receives the most attention in Washington.

Tech firms will spend trillions on AI in the coming years.

Mutual dependence is a rare source of stability in U.S.-China relations.

Every month, the information factories get cheaper, sharper, and harder to detect.

Trump should strike a deal with Southeast Asia to secure imported U.S. AI chips.

Avoiding digital dictatorship may mean rethinking our relationship with machines.

A self-contradictory mix of U.S. policies may already be stimulating Chinese AI.

Firms don’t want Huawei’s domestically produced alternatives—but might have no choice.

Tech giants are clamoring for more, not less, regulation because they know guardrails will facilitate innovation.

Right when the Trump administration should be ramping up export controls, its trade strategy is undermining them.

Turning away partners with a clear preference for American AI infrastructure creates a vacuum that China will fill.

“We’re in the sprint mode of a real race for supremacy between the United States and China.”

Military expert Mara Karlin on drones, AI, and asymmetrical conflicts.

The Trump administration is rapidly reshaping the global digital order.

“Doomers” have mostly self-silenced, but that doesn’t mean the technology has become any safer.

The UAE joins a stream of other countries using the technology to write legislation.

AI tools trained in different countries are producing wildly divergent views on controversial geopolitical questions.

After freeing itself from a dependence on the region’s oil, the United States should not sign up for the same with AI.

A refined approach can keep democracy in the lead.

The U.S. has been trying to keep its technological lead through export restrictions, but China is closing the gap.

Ever-tightening restrictions are boosting Chinese firms.

How companies and countries are scrambling to control the supply chains for chips, data centers, and subsea cables.

The EuroStack is the continent’s last chance for technological sovereignty in the era of AI.

DeepSeek has prompted midsize powers to get in the game.

Technology can’t provide the economic miracle Starmer wants.

A new study finds that foundation models are predisposed toward escalation.

Washington needs to foster innovation to beat Beijing.

Cuts at USAID and the State Department undermine the ability to build markets for AI.

Cutting-edge systems need to be developed in tandem.

Why hasn’t the messianic urge for “efficiency” hit the tech industry?

Subsea cables channel data and power, but they face escalating risks.

Alibaba is trying to reshape itself to match Xi Jinping’s ambitions.

Trump’s actions are a distraction from the main order of business: the pursuit of fantastic profit through a surging industry.

DeepSeek has exposed just how uncertain future AI energy demand is.

The DeepSeek shock may reshape a global race.

Washington faces a daunting but critical task.

The Chinese AI lab has put to rest any illusion that Beijing is behind.

The Chinese firm’s success might not be a case for massive government investment in the sector.

It’s the exact wrong moment in history for nations to stop cooperating—but AI might yet help us.

This year, countries and companies debated how the technology should be regulated.

The coming wave of technology is set to worsen global inequality.

Its threats go beyond election disinformation. But experts say they’re not insurmountable.

The Biden administration’s approach was risky and needs to be corrected.

Left ungoverned, the technology opens pathways to undermine democracy.

Data might be the “new oil,” but nations—not nature—will decide where to build data centers.

AI won big, but the prizes served as a reminder of what we could all lose.

Innovation happens through international networks like the one running through Queen Square.

Concerted international action will require political will.

The perspectives and needs of global majority countries have not been fully accommodated.

Experimentation is the right strategy—as long as regulators can learn from one another.

Pausing our current technological progress would only help the world’s most privileged.

While not widely known, the vice president’s experience on this issue is substantial.

An Italian sci-fi book buzzes with many issues that society still grapples with today.

Researchers need far more information to understand AI’s true risks.

African leaders can’t afford to wait for Big Tech. By taking action, the continent could spare future generations from the scourge of adversarial AI.

The U.S. Congress missed an opportunity. Instead, it published a road map that fails to address the key challenges posed by new technologies.

The White House backed an AI red-teaming exercise last year. The results are in.

Kyiv’s Western backers need to grasp that drones are no substitute for a capable fighting force.

Companies first need to do a better job of demonstrating the technology’s societal benefits.

In an industry already primed for concentration, creative alternatives for safeguarding the public interest are needed.

Depleted tech platforms, AI-enabled misinformation, and more than 50 countries voting in 2024. What could go wrong?

Why the moral panic is misplaced.

Our columnists share the most important developments on their radar in the year ahead.

Postgame analysis of 2023’s great inflation debate.

Stephen Walt explains why countries are accusing America of hypocrisy.

Artificial intelligence became more than just a buzzword in 2023.

The world may need new rulebooks for the rapidly evolving technology.

Artificial intelligence can help users engineer pathogens—but that’s not the real danger.

Winning the race to develop this critical technology will require a little help from friends.

The continent’s eagerness to regulate global tech companies could backfire on its own.

Female workers may be at highest risk from the coming waves of automation.

New export controls, a year after the first, are cautious but pack a punch.

Washington doesn’t have to restrict chip exports to control the technology’s future development.

Over the past two years, China has enacted some of the world’s earliest and most sophisticated rules for AI.

Hackers, students, and government officials gathered at DEF CON to push chatbots over the edge.

Nathaniel Fick on running the State Department’s new Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy.

Worldcoin trades cryptocurrency for eyeball scans, creating a global ID database and scaring the willies out of privacy experts.

Regulating artificial intelligence to protect U.S. democracy could end up jeopardizing democracy abroad.

The U.N.’s oldest agency is taking on the world’s newest technology.

Both the private and public sectors need to play a part.

Success isn’t just staying ahead of China.

Paul Scharre, Stanley McChrystal, Alondra Nelson, and more thinkers on the dawn of a new age in geopolitics.

Data lets us see with unprecedented clarity—but reaping its benefits requires changing how foreign policy is made.

What was once a diffuse technology is now increasingly controlled by a handful of tech companies. Governments need to catch up.

Be prepared for attacks on Kharkiv and Gazprom’s fighters joining the war.

We asked the latest generative AI system to analyze Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea. Here’s how it fared against a college student.

Biden’s former top tech policymaker explains how guardrails around technology should work.