By Katherine Salinas
As AI rapidly transforms the landscape of research and knowledge production, think tanks face an existential question: what is their role when AI agents can conduct research at speeds no human could match?
Technology: Brave New World
By Anirban Sarma with Sauradeep Bag, Anulekha Nandi, Prateek Tripathi, and Siddharth Yadav
The year 2025 saw several disruptive and emerging technologies advance from rhetoric, and experimentation, into ongoing expansion, to an accelerated phase of growth. At the same time, there emerged a rising sense of urgency about the need for digital sovereignty. Taken together, AI, quantum computing, digital currencies, and nanotechnology represent a frontier where technology, power, and the political economy increasingly converge.
Cybersecurity as Economic Security: The Case for U.S.-India Coordination
By Krishnaveni Palanivelu
Cybersecurity must be treated as a shared economic security challenge. By aligning standards, strengthening cooperation, and embedding cyber resilience into trade, infrastructure, and foreign policy, democracies like the United States and India can better protect their digital foundations and sustain long-term economic stability.
Pax Silica Will Under-Deliver without Further Steps
Middleware Solutions: Making Social Media More Transparent
Strengthening India’s Cyber Incident Reporting Framework
The US Needs Compute. Can India Deliver?
A Deeper Dive: Trump Pursues American Dominance in AI
By Sarah Box
The AI Action Plan is a clear signpost towards American dominance in AI and its impact will be felt globally. The hope is that it will indeed lead to the industrial and information revolution and cultural renaissance anticipated by the administration, and that this is not a winner-take-all race but one that allies and partners can share in.
Trump’s Bold AI Action Plan Leads to Questions of Implementation
Reframing AI Governance with LMIC-Led Leadership
Rare UN Consensus and Progress on Cybersecurity
A New Code for Cyber Intrusion Capabilities: Pall Mall
By Elsa Debargue and Jeffrey D. Bean
The Pall Mall Process is a work in progress, and only time will tell if it proves durable and successful. However, it does hint at a potential turning point in current cyber governance efforts by adapting to the realities of a decentralized, privatized, and often invisible marketplace of digital intrusion.
In the absence of AI regulation, AI literacy is necessary
Trump’s Reversal on AI Diffusion Controls Raises New Questions
By Jeffrey D. Bean
All in all, the United States’ oscillating policy on AI diffusion reflects an ongoing struggle in how best to simultaneously retain U.S. leadership in semiconductors and advance compute for AI at both a market level and in national defense applications, while blocking adversaries’ access to advanced AI chips and the capability to manufacture them.
