List of Science and Technology articles
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Akon, wearing a light blue suit and holding a microphone gestures and looks down as he sings agains a blue and purple background. Senegal’s Cryptocurrency City Has Evaporated
Singer Akon wanted to help his childhood country—but tokens were a dead end.
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A worker sitting at a desk with several computer monitors is seen from behind and across a room in a facility in Shanghai. Other monitors hang above nearby work desks, and a walkway or scaffolding stretches overhead. A Chinese flag hangs from high up on a nearby wall. America Needs Clear Standards for China Tech Decoupling
A new Washington consensus risks improvised and chaotic policy.
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U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan delivers a speech at the Brookings Institution. Jake Sullivan’s Closing Argument on Biden’s Global Economic Agenda
The U.S. national security advisor defended the administration’s approach to allies and adversaries alike.
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A view of multiple buildings in Queen Square in London, circa 1910. The United States Owes Its Edge in AI to a London Landmark
Innovation happens through international networks like the one running through Queen Square.
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A man wearing a baby in a carrier holds an umbrella as he walks by a missile system. Other people mill about in the distance. Taiwanese Missile Units Are Giving Away Their Positions to China
Taiwan’s military hasn’t adjusted to the age of open-source intelligence.
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A factory worker stands near car batteries for Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery Company in Nanjing, China, on March 12, 2021. How the United States Can Win the Battery Race
To leapfrog China, Washington should shift away from lithium-ion batteries.
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Two people are seen from behind. The Science of AI Is Too Important to Be Left to the Scientists
Concerted international action will require political will.
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The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is seen from across the Susquehanna River in Etters, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 21. America’s AI Leadership Depends on Energy
Microsoft’s plan to restart Three Mile Island points to the way forward.
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A protester holds a placard reading "No to Russian propaganda" during a demonstration against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Milan, Italy, on Feb. 24. Russia’s Global Information Operations Have Grown Up
What began with Russian trolls on Facebook will require a lot more coordination to root out.
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An illustration shows a wireframe hand and a full hand with strings tangled between outstretched fingers and a presidential seal snared in the middle. The Artificial General Intelligence Presidency Is Coming
Generative AI was developed largely without government assistance, but its next phase will require government involvement.
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Switchboard operators manually connect calls at a telephone exchange in Paris on March 14, 1935. Why Europe Is Losing the Tech Race
And what the European Union could do to catch up.
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Employees work on a new energy vehicle assembly line at a BYD factory in Huaian. Biden’s High-Wire Balancing Act on Chinese Tech
A new rule would effectively ban Chinese cars from the United States. Some experts worry about the costs of the sweeping approach.
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A portrait of Nate Silver in a circle atop a green background with poker chips falling. ‘On the Edge’ Puts Its Bets in the Wrong Places
Nate Silver offers a disjointed paean to gambling and venture capitalists.
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Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War, Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff, Scribner, 336 pp., $30, July 2024. Silicon Valley Hasn’t Revolutionized Warfare—Yet
The Pentagon is warming up to commercial technologies, but it has a long way to go.
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A climate activist from Fiji works on a computer at the COP 23 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, on Nov. 7, 2017. What the Global AI Governance Conversation Misses
The perspectives and needs of global majority countries have not been fully accommodated.
