In our 36 combined years of service in the United States Senate, we served on opposite sides of the aisle. Still, we agreed on this: America’s 36 million small businesses are the heart and soul of our economy. […]
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How California can counter China on AI — and engineer a big US win
Imagine two teams preparing for a world championship. One arrives with a full game plan. Coaches, players, and management are aligned around a single strategy. […]
AI Isn’t the Future of Our National Security. It’s the Present.
America and China are racing for technological supremacy, and the margin is razor thin. Today, tech supremacy is increasingly synonymous with artificial intelligence (AI) leadership […]
Maine’s Moratorium Hinders Manufacturing
Maine’s proposed moratorium on new data centers sends exactly the wrong signal at the wrong time. Maine has lived through the loss of its industrial base, from paper mills to its manufacturing economy. […]
Energy supply is the key to the AI race with China
Energy abundance could be the deciding factor in whether America or China wins the race for global artificial intelligence leadership. Right now, China is surging in that race — and they’re winning it on the power grid, not just in the lab. […]
Misguided Regulations Could Hand China Control of Our Internet
To prevent fragmented AI regulation and losing global tech leadership to China, Congress should codify the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan into a national framework. Top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the country’s 15th Five-Year Plan, which features artificial intelligence (AI) as a central strategy to strengthen China’s economy and military. […]
America’s AI future requires massive infrastructure investment
If the United States is serious about leading the world in artificial intelligence, it must confront a difficult truth: AI is not just about algorithms, venture funding, cloud platforms, or research labs. It is about energy and power grids, natural resources and supply chains, and human capital. […]
Don’t Let Permitting Red Tape Cost America the AI Race
China is building the power grid of the future. Meanwhile, America lags, slowed by regulations and permitting delays. Without a modern power grid, the U.S. risks falling behind China in a race that will define the next century of technological and economic growth.
Over the past decade, Beijing has aggressively expanded its energy capacity at a pace Washington has struggled to match. Over the last few years, China has added more than 11 times the generating capacity of the U.S. It has outpaced the U.S. in generating electricity for more than 14 consecutive years and is on track to add 60 percent additional capacity by 2040. […]
Power Outage: How the Energy Gap is Putting America’s AI Leadership at Risk
If energy generation were a sport, China would be the world champion, and America would be a struggling distant second. The scoreboard is sobering: […]
America Could Lose the AI Race Unless Congress Acts Now
To win the AI race against China, Congress must mobilize all forms of power, modernize the grid, onshore critical supply chains, and address America’s STEM talent gap.
America stands at a crossroads in the most consequential technology race of our lifetime. The outcome of the US–China competition for artificial intelligence (AI) will determine which country—and which set of values—leads the global economy and secures geopolitical preeminence. […]