As America celebrates 250 years of freedom, the question is whether we can win the global race against China in artificial intelligence, the newest technology. The country that generates the most reliable electricity fastest will train the most powerful models and set technological terms for the rest of the century. China is building dozens of […]
The various agencies of the United Nations are a peculiar beast. Their quality and contributions are a mixed bag. Even among the best agencies, quotas and cash matter. Internal U.N. appointments are akin to affirmative action on steroids, with the added complication of appeasing donor nations that expect their donations to equate to influence and […]
Memory chips store the data and instructions that power Nvidia’s accelerated computing platforms, as well as the world’s computers and smartphones. These chips are, put simply, the filing cabinets of the digital economy. Since the late 1980s, the memory semiconductor market has been characterized by boom-and-bust profit cycles. Periods of strong profitability have routinely been followed by […]
You read the headline correctly. To some people, those two facts seem contradictory. But I think they point toward a better path forward. For decades, climate advocacy has focused heavily on individual behavior: what we drive, what we eat, how often we fly. Personal responsibility matters. It shapes how we vote, how we engage in […]
The Supreme Court handed down its decision on Tuesday in West Virginia v. B. P. J. concerning transgender athletes. The case involved two states, West Virginia and Idaho, and their respective bans on sports separated by biological sex. The issue before the court was whether these bans violate Title IX and the equal protection clause […]
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has warned of an Iranian response if the U.S. and Israel breach the interim peace deal, as Tehran prepares to bury its former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “We strongly demand full implementation of the agreements, and if the US and the Zionist regime fail to fulfill their commitments, Iran...
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The Hill’s senior vice president of editorial content, Bill Sammon, and political editor, Chris Stirewalt, mark the 250th Independence Day with a look at the revolutionary promise of 1776. From Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr., join Whole Hog Politics for a discussion on liberty, equality and the enduring...