Category: <span>GeoTech Cues</span>

Category: GeoTech Cues

GeoTech Cues provides updates on how and where new technologies and data advances are empowering people, increasing prosperity, and securing peace. GeoTech Cues also provides updates regarding both the challenges and opportunities with the long-term global recovery associated with COVID-19. These updates are part of the work of the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center, which encourages global tech collaborations, evaluates good tech choices as well as measurable policy alternatives, and educates world leaders and the public on issues related to global tech competition.

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GeoTech Cues

Oct 14, 2026

When AI agents become economic actors, what happens to money and the financial system?

By Ivan Ferrari

If AI agents come to rely on US transaction infrastructure and dollar-denominated assets, the dollar will become embedded in the operating system of machine commerce.

Artificial Intelligence Digital Policy

GeoTech Cues

Oct 13, 2026

Why is electrification no longer “woke”?

By Mahmoud Abouelnaga

Once a culture-war issue, electrification is now an AI- and Iran war-era necessity.

Artificial Intelligence Energy & Environment

GeoTech Cues

Sep 21, 2026

AI is sprinting past human control. Can testing and evaluation catch up? 

By Evi Fuelle, Ryan Pan

Frontier AI is exposing the limits of today's testing systems. The United States needs a national AI assurance ecosystem.

Artificial Intelligence Digital Policy

GeoTech Cues

Sep 2, 2026

The D2D boom has a launch problem

By Olivia Torres

Amid the race for more direct-to-device connectivity, a major obstacle has emerged: getting satellites into orbit.

Space Technology & Innovation

GeoTech Cues

Aug 28, 2026

In space, everyone can hear you stream: Challenges ahead of the corporate space data race

By Will LaRivee, Matt Petit

Private companies are driving the rise of space-based data centers, but it is not yet clear who will own, govern, and access data processed in orbit.

Space Technology & Innovation

GeoTech Cues

Jul 27, 2026

The best AI you can own is Chinese. The West needs to close that gap quickly.

By Ivan Ferrari

The controls the West built around the data center do not reach the laptop, and the answer is to compete on open models.

Artificial Intelligence China

GeoTech Cues

May 21, 2026

Europe must address the ‘digital sovereignty triad’

By Trevor H. Rudolph

As part of its Tech Sovereignty Package, the EU is developing its own definition of digital sovereignty. But a fundamental question will likely remain: how can the bloc balance control over data, legal authority, and vendor independence while maintaining openness to global technology partners and preserving digital resilience?

Cybersecurity Digital Policy

GeoTech Cues

May 7, 2026

To realize returns on their AI investments, corporations must consider their workers

By Reevana Balmahoon

For business leaders to benefit from the AI transformation, they need to prioritize workers and earn their trust.

Artificial Intelligence Digital Policy

GeoTech Cues

Feb 18, 2026

To compete with China in space, the US must form more equitable commercial partnerships with African nations

By Maureen Farrell and Matt Petit

To counter China’s space diplomacy efforts, the United States must make creative investments across multiple sectors of African economies.

Africa National Security

GeoTech Cues

Feb 13, 2026

The road to the AI Impact Summit: How to build AI infrastructure from the ground up

By Ryan Pan, Coley Felt, Raul Brens Jr.

The central question for AI in 2026 is not whether governments have an AI strategy—it’s whether they can operationalize it and quickly deliver the benefits to their citizens.

Artificial Intelligence Digital Policy
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