“Taxing Artificial Intelligence” By Julian Arndts and Kalle Kappner, courtesy of IREF The Fourth Industrial Revolution is well underway, and there is no doubt that artificial intelligences (AI) will profoundly transform the economy over the next decades. While the impact on the labor market is subject to lively discussions, the problem of how […]
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Achieving Economic Security Depends on Assuring National Security
By James Edwards, Executive Director of Conservatives for Property Rights “Economic security is national security.” Different officials have made this statement over the years. Only, now the news has begun to catch up and validate the truth it expresses. Reports have proliferated, exposing various ways America’s competitors — particularly China and […]
Kremlins Out of the System: Russia will turn off outside Internet, turn it back on
Russia has long sought to establish a parallel, separate Internet minimizing U.S. control and influence, including Vkontakte, the Russian Facebook, and other social media copycats, as well as a separate “intranet” for the Russian military. Now the Russian government is preparing to test RuNet, an internal Internet infrastructure intended to allow the […]
France hits U.S. tech titans with new tax
Ryan Khurana at CapX argues that France’s new “digital services tax” is a thinly veiled assault on leading American tech firms. With a three percent revenue tax on companies making €750 million and up, the measure is squarely aimed at the likes of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple — which French Finance Minister […]
SoftBank’s Gravity Warping Value, Expectations
Henny Sender in the FT: SoftBank and its $70 billion-in Vision Fund are privately hyperfinancing start-ups, they argue, to spur rapid growth and occasionally to beat their chests. These well-intended torrents of cash have created a bubble in the tech sector, widening the gap between massive private and modest public valuations. The […]