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    • ‘The Origins of Efficiency’ Review: Rise of the Machines

    By Mark Mills October 21, 2025

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    By Mark Mills Oct 21 2025 – AI, similarly, has been available for decades (for specialists and in supercomputers). But now the AI ecosystem, thanks to a similar pattern of ingenious gains, is exhibiting precisely the same efficiency and scaling trajectory as the automobile more than a century ago…….all efficiency gains emerge from changes in five basic features: the inputs, the design of the process or product, the pursuit of reliably repeatable processes, the nature of how people or machines do things, and the role of volume (scale). How these features combine to improve efficiency depends on human ingenuity, imagination, tenacity and that elusive thing called “tacit knowledge” that comes from experience. Read More

    America Needs AI That Can Do Math

    By Jack D. Hidary - Feb. 16, 2026

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    By Jack D. Hidary – Feb. 16, 2026 – China will release its next five-year plan next month. These plans are important because China pours billions of dollars into, and otherwise gives favorable treatment to, the sectors targeted in these programs. The U.S. will need to use a whole new class of artificial-intelligence models—built for the world of science and math, not language and images—to stay competitive with China as it puts the pedal to the metal in critical sectors. Read More

    Government Won’t Help the AI Job Transition

    By Phil Gramm and Michael Solon - Feb. 5, 2026

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    By Phil Gramm and Michael Solon – Feb. 5, 2026 – Societal gains from technological change come from what the economist Joseph Schumpeter called “the wave of creative destruction.” The lost jobs and investments rendered unprofitable by new technology free up labor and capital that can be redeployed to produce new and higher-valued goods and services. The more seamlessly the transition from the old to the new, the greater the gain from the new technology. “American exceptionalism,” our ability to generate and sustain higher living standards, has come in part from developing new technology and benefiting from being the first to implement it, and in part from our ability to move labor and capital dislocated by the wave of creative destruction efficiently into higher and better uses. Read More

    America Reclaims Its Dominance in Space

    By Arthur Herman - Feb. 8, 2026

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    By Arthur Herman – Feb. 8, 2026 – Just two years ago, America’s longstanding dominance in space seemed under threat. China had been surging ahead for more than a decade and planned to become the world’s leading space power. …Most troubling: Beijing continues to test and develop antisatellite weapons that could cripple the GPS and other space-based systems on which the U.S. would rely in time of war. …In the past year, however, the energy and vision in the U.S. government has shifted, thanks to the Trump administration and NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman. Meanwhile, Beijing is struggling to keep its space ambitions on track. Read More

    America’s Exorbitant Privilege AA

    By Paola Sapienza – 10 27 2025

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    By Paola Sapienza – 10 27 2025 – We can continue leveraging America’s exorbitant privilege in the global talent market, or we can retreat into protectionism that hands our competitive advantages to countries eager to welcome the talent we reject. If the United States wants to remain the world’s innovation leader, it must continue to welcome those willing to take the leap, cross oceans, and devote their lives to discovery. Our edge is selection from a larger global pool. Closing the door shrinks our innovative future. The choice is openness or stagnation. …In a globally competitive economy, the countries that win will be those that can assemble the best teams, regardless of where team members were born. The United States has spent decades building this capability. We abandon it at our peril—and we certainly shouldn’t abandon it in a way that strangles the startup ecosystem that made it possible in the first place. Read More