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1 month ago | rstreet.org | Adam Thierer

Testimony Adam Thierer Testimony, Hearing on “DeepSeek: A Deep Dive” VIDEO SUBMITTED STATEMENT OF ADAM THIERER RESIDENT SENIOR FELLOW, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION R STREET INSTITUTE BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY SUBCOMMITTEE ON RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HEARING ON “DEEPSEEK: A DEEP DIVE” APRIL 8, 2025 Chairman Obernolte, Ranking Member Stevens, and members of the subcommittee: Thank you for the invitation to participate in this important hearing. My name is Adam...
R Street: Tech companies’ approach to DeepSeek offers promising alternative to restrictions - R Street Institute

Feb 10, 2025 | rstreet.org

Major tech companies including Microsoft and Amazon have taken steps to quickly — and securely — integrate the DeepSeek R-1 artificial intelligence model into their services, according to the free market-oriented R Street Institute, which cites the industry developments as providing an alternative to “all or nothing” debates over open-source models and export controls to...
DeepSeek’s cybersecurity failures expose a bigger risk. Here’s what we really should be watching. - R Street Institute

Feb 4, 2025 | rstreet.org

The release of DeepSeek’s R1 model (DeepSeek-R1) on Jan. 20, 2025 dominated news headlines and sparked lively debates across the tech and policy worlds. Some are already referring to the release as AI’s “Sputnik” moment, calling for outright bans, reassessment of our chip export control policies, and even criminalizing downloads of the model. Others argue the United States...
California To Bend Last-Call Law for Elite Clippers Fans - R Street Institute

Dec 26, 2024 | rstreet.org

If you want to drink alcohol in California after 2 a.m., it helps to be the billionaire owner of the L.A. Clippers. It’s good to be a billionaire. After years of failing to extend the state’s “last call” law, it turns out all that was needed to keep the booze flowing past 2 a.m. in...
Low-Energy Fridays: Why is it so hard for the government to build EV charging stations? - R Street Institute

Oct 25, 2024 | rstreet.org

As Mike Tyson famously said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. He wasn’t talking about electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, of course, but the quote might as well apply to challenges the Biden administration has faced in expanding the nation’s network of EV charging infrastructure. The administration started with big...
Elon Musk, OpenAI, Anthropic differ on California's AI safety bill - R Street Institute

Aug 28, 2024 | rstreet.org

In a letter first shared with Axios, tech advocacy coalition Chamber of Progress and other groups including the Bay Area Council, Context Fund, Engine, NetChoice, R Street Institute, Silicon Valley Leadership Group and TechFreedom wrote to Newsom urging a veto, calling the bill “fundamentally flawed and mistargeted” even with recent changes.
The government doesn’t care if a child’s Social Security number is used for fraud—even before they’re born - R Street Institute

Aug 26, 2024 | rstreet.org

If the U.S. government became aware that a child’s identity was used in fraud, one would assume they would tell parents and report it to law enforcement. A reasonable person would also think that when issuing new Social Security numbers (SSNs) to children, the Social Security Administration (SSA) would check to make sure that nobody...
The Policy Origins of the Digital Revolution & the Continuing Case for the Freedom to Innovate - R Street Institute

Aug 15, 2024 | rstreet.org

In just one generation, we’ve moved from a world of informational scarcity to informational abundance thanks to the Internet and digital technology. A recent U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis report revealed that, in 2022 alone, the U.S. digital economy accounted for over $4 trillion of gross output, $2.6 trillion of value added (translating to 10...
Elon Musk’s X takes on meddlesome European censors - R Street Institute

Aug 3, 2024 | rstreet.org

Earlier this month, the European Union brought its first charges under the Digital Services Act against X (formerly Twitter), claiming it deceives users and lacks transparency measures required by the law. Another probe by EU regulators of the platform claims X has refused to comply with an EU law that would force the company to...
The U.S. Senate Takes a Swing at Data Privacy and AI - R Street Institute

Jul 27, 2024 | rstreet.org

This analysis is in response to breaking news and subject to change. Please reach out to [email protected] to speak with the author. While the House of Representatives has received most of the attention around data privacy this Congress—especially regarding a comprehensive federal privacy law—a July 11 hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, &...