Companies have poured billions of dollars into AI in anticipation of transformative productivity gains and cost savings, but the returns have yet to justify those investments. Rising costs, intellectual-property risks, and mounting cybersecurity threats call for a more disciplined approach to AI adoption.
Frustrated at the collapse of his poorly-considered Memorandum of Understanding with Iran, President Trump has declared the US will reimpose its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and begin charging a 20 percent fee for passage. It’s genuinely astonishing for the government of the United States to blithely repudiate one of its most important contributions to international order. The US has…
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 Military Service Members and Families Struggle with Housing in Increasingly Competitive Markets When military service members and their families move to a new base, they are subject to the whims of the housing markets they enter and leave. Trying to rent or buy a home when housing markets and competition are…
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, is seen in the U.S. Capitol after a meeting in the office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., March 26, 2026. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images A coalition of current and former Meta employees have sued the social media giant, alleging that the company used…
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 GAO Has Found New Ways to Save the Federal Government Billions of Dollars Over the years, GAO’s work has helped save taxpayers billions of dollars by reducing duplication, overlap and fragmentation in programs. Each year, we issue a report that highlights this work. On this episode of the Watchdog Report—we’ll talk…
Middle East oil producers plan to build new pipelines to reduce their dependence on the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran disrupts the Gulf states’ seaborne crude exports with near daily attacks on tankers. But new pipelines will not end the threat to the region’s energy exports, analysts said. This infrastructure is just as vulnerable to…
A major story these last few years has been disaffection with Israel. You can’t deny the polling, which shows that a growing number of Americans in both parties are critical of the Jewish state. According to a Pew survey released July 9, just 16 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of…
LONDON—After years of soaring expectations, the AI industry is approaching a moment of reckoning. Despite record investment, investors, executives, and corporate boards are growing increasingly skeptical that AI will deliver significant productivity gains anytime soon.