9+ hour, 8+ min ago  (73+ words) Project-based carbon credits remain largely unregulated in the United States (and throughout the world). Federal regulation could address these problems, restoring the credibility of carbon credits as tools for mitigating climate change and increasing private spending to further this goal....

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (335+ words) Brookings From bans to recalls: A public health framework for AI companion bots - AI companion bots are a public health problem. - They impose three layers of harm: lack of guardrails, addictive design, and risk of disruption of social skills'particularly for…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (250+ words) Science fiction has long imagined machines that think, feel, or act like people. That imagery shapes our public conversations and understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Headlines frequently borrow science fiction tropes to describe AI systems as if they can…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (165+ words) Water scarcity and vulnerability present a special challenge for Iran. Even before the current conflict began, Iran's major cities were facing the prospect of severe disruption to piped water supplies, with reservoirs running close to empty. The drought is so…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (389+ words) With an average annual budget of $15 million, the third year of the program will double annual funding (up from an average of approximately $7. 5 million over the first two years), creating a real inflection point for each Engine and enabling them…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (23+ words) On'May 26, the'Center for Universal Education'at Brookings will host a'conversation'on'whether AI companion bots should be governed as a product with public health implications...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (566+ words) Three companies'Anthropic, Open AI, and Google'have established themselves as the dominant foundation model builders. Application developers build their tools atop those models. Total payments for such access reached over $37 billion in 2025, tripling in a single year, according to Menlo Ventures....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (379+ words) The data for this series was taken directly from federal contracts'collected in three batches over a five-year period'and consolidated by Leadership Connect, which'has an extensive repository of federal contracts. Comparisons of spending across sectors use the North American Industry Classification…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (249+ words) Brookings 1: 00 pm EDT - 2: 00 pm EDT AI in the nursery Generation AI Starts Early series 1: 00 pm - 2: 00 pm EDT Birth to age 3 is the most consequential period for human development. As AI-enabled technologies increasingly reach into the lives of babies, toddlers, and…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago  (106+ words) Figure 1. Two generative AI deployment infrastructures in 2026 The working paper is structured in three parts. It begins by analyzing existing deployment paradigms and cognitive agency (Part 1), before presenting a context-maxxingplaybook for policymakersor decisionmakers working on or with generative AI (Part…...