Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

By Ellis Scherer and Elizabeth Sanchez | August 4, 2026 The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) appreciates the opportunity to comment on Reforming the High-Cost Program for an All-IP Future.[1] The Commission should eliminate legacy high-cost support mechanisms and allow A-CAM support to expire without extension.

Three days after Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 last month, the Commerce Department issued an export control directive barring any foreign national from accessing the models. Because Anthropic could not verify users’ nationality in real time, complying meant taking both models offline for everyone, everywhere.

Source: Anna Kortis, et al., “Catalyzing Competitiveness: Where Investment Happens and Why” (McKinsey Global Institute, June 30, 2026). Commentary: Investment in productive capital, such as non-residential structures, infrastructure, machinery and equipment, research and development (R&D), and software, has a significant, positive effect on productivity.

Hey, if you want to save the planet and please your selfish NIMBY constituents, I have an idea: ban data centers. Several jurisdictions have bizarrely decided that this is the thing to do. Just this week, Montgomery County, Maryland—a deeply blue suburb of Washington, D.C., where I live—took the enormously courageous step of approving an 18-month moratorium on new data centers. The measure is a “compromise” between an existing six-month pause and a proposed two-year ban.

Wednesday, August 26, 2026, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST Webinar As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly central to U.S. economic competitiveness and national security, one reality is becoming clear: AI leadership depends on the ability to build the physical infrastructure that powers it. But as AI infrastructure expands into more communities, public attitudes are shifting.

For the past several years, Congress has been locked in a debate over how to safeguard Americans’ data privacy. Each new Congress has put forth its own solution to this pervasive privacy problem, from the 117th Congress’ American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) in 2022, the 118th Congress’ American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) in 2024, and now the 119th Congress’ SECURE Data Act, introduced earlier this year.

| July 29, 2026 The European Commission recently fined Google €890 million under the Digital Markets Act (DMA)—the third major penalty that the EU has levied against the company in under a year. The announcement on July 23 followed a €2.95 billion antitrust fine in September 2025 and a more recent high court decision that Google must pay a €4.1 billion penalty in a long-running antitrust case.

On June 30, 2026, the United Kingdom’s (UK) Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued two consultations (the Consultations) regarding proposed Steering Conduct Requirements (Steering CRs) for Apple’s and Google’s mobile platforms under the enforcement of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCCA).[1] The Consultations lay out the general restrictions that would be placed on Apple and Google with respect to anti-steering practices, the contours of the experience users...

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) and its Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness (CCIC) are pleased to submit these comments in response to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) of Canada’s request for public comment concerning its guidance for websites and online services on assessing whether and how to use age assurance.[1] ITIF is a nonprofit, non-partisan public policy think tank committed to articulating and advancing pro-productivity,...

For years, Congress has failed to establish a national framework for data privacy while states have filled the void with their own privacy laws. Now, lawmakers have another opportunity. The SECURE Data Act, championed by House Republicans, would replace the growing patchwork of state privacy laws with a uniform national standard. But without bipartisan support, Congress will once again fail to enact a federal privacy law, leaving the American digital economy fractured.