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What Can We Learn (or Re-Learn) from East Asian Industrial Zones? (opens the original)
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This post was originally published on the Substack of “New Energy Industrial Strategy” (NEIS). You can find the original post here. By Jake Higdon, Joel Dodge, and Chirag LalaFor many years, the United States thought of a certain set of development tools as relics of
Evict Live Nation (opens the original)
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In April, a jury found Live Nation liable for monopolizing the concert industry. The basic story you’ve probably heard is that Live Nation built its monopoly by buying competitors and linking its venue, promoter, and Ticketmaster businesses with exclusionary contracts and retaliation.But there is a huge part of the Live Nation story that never made it into the antitrust case. My co-authors and I just finished performing a <a hre
Federal Employees’ AI Prompts Are Records … in Narrow Circumstances (opens the original)
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This article was first published on Just Security.On August 21, 2026, a typically sleepy government agency published guidance on a wonky topic, an announcement largely ignored by the press, D.C. think tanks, and scholars. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)’s Guidance on Applying the Federal Records Act (FRA) to Artificial Intelligence (AI) Materials seem
Who Investigates AI’s Cyber Attacks? (opens the original)
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This post was originally published by Yale Journal on Regulation and was written by Asad Ramzanali and J.B. Branch.Over the course of a few days in July, during an evaluation of OpenAI models’ advanced cyber capabilities, AI agents largely built on unreleased models infiltrated the technical infrastructure of Hugging Face, a platform that hosts AI models and related materials, along with multiple other accounts. The incident inspired countless Substack <a href="https://abstatisticalcon
It’s Time to Cut the Fun Tax (opens the original)
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VPA’s Director of Competition and Regulatory Policy Brian Shearer joined VPA Senior Fellow Kyla Scanlon in a conversation about a two-pronged proposal for reducing ticket prices for live events.Contrary to how we might all feel (just me?), Americans spend about the same amount of time having fun today as they did in 2003. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys, we spend about 5 hours a
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