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President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order during the “Winning the AI Race” summit hosted by All‑In Podcast and Hill & Valley Forum at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on July 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Trump signed executive orders related to his Artificial Intelligence Action Plan during the event. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

‘What’s our AI strategy?’ is the wrong question for agency leaders

Federal officials overseeing implementation of the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan need to start with people, not platforms.
Data on the screen as a technician uses a dual energy x-ray absorptiometry at the New York Nutrition and Obesity Research Center in New York, N.Y., on March 24, 2025. (Photo by Bryan Anselm For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Save public health data to save American lives

Wake-up call: Critical public health data is now at risk, but new strategies can preserve and even improve it.
UCLA students, researchers and demonstrators rally during a “Kill the Cuts” protest against the Trump administration’s funding cuts on research, health and higher education in Los Angeles on April 8, 2025. (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

If you are reading this online, you can thank universities

The administration should be doubling down on funding for research. Federal cuts do nothing but impede science and tech breakthroughs.
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A traveler checks flight information at Ronald Regan Washington National Airport on July 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. A global computer outage started from an update from the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike that impacted flights worldwide along with disrupting broadcasters and banking services. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

The self-inflicted wounds of tech monoculture

AWS and Crowdstrike outages show the need for more diversity in technology.
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