What to know about China’s economic ambitions and its Five-Year Plan
In early March, Beijing released its fifteenth Five-Year Plan, detailing the Party leadership’s economic and technological ambitions for…
What got lost in the global AI summit circuit?
In February, India’s AI Impact Summit proclaimed a bold promise: Middle powers can reshape the global artificial intelligence…
Mind the gap: AI adoption in Europe and the US
Surveys last spring and early this year show that U.S. workers are using artificial intelligence (AI) at a…
The train has left the station: Agentic AI and the future of social science research
A viral blog post recently compared the current moment in artificial intelligence (AI) to February 2020, just before…
Why Africa should sequence, not rush into AI
At a small community hospital in Gabon, the patient register is still handwritten. Nurses flip through paper ledgers,…
To save entry-level jobs from AI, look to the medical residency model
At the Davos World Economic Forum this week, the CEOs of two leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies issued…
From open internet to open intelligence: Why AI’s market structure matters more than ever
The global market for artificial intelligence is taking shape at breathtaking speed—and with remarkably few constraints. Vast new…
A look back at 2025—and what’s in store for 2026—from the Global Economy and Development program
As 2025 draws to a close, experts from across the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings reflect…
Why AI demand for energy will continue to increase
DeepSeek, a Chinese startup company, announced the release of its AI reasoning model, DeepSeek R1, in January. It…
Interwoven frontiers: Energy, AI, and US-China competition
The fates of breakthrough technologies and the energy to power them are deeply interwoven, with progress at scale…
How will we know if DOGE is succeeding?
One of the most contentious but potentially transformative initiatives by the second Trump administration has been the creation…
How DOGE is using AI in government
Some leaders in the Trump administration are adopting an “AI-first strategy,” as it seeks to both remove “burdensome…