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2026
- US Government Takes Equity Stakes in Critical Minerals Companies: How Washington's Approach Compares With China and the EU
- GAO Finds New Impoundment Violations as the House Proposes a 25% Cut to Congress's Watchdog
- FedRAMP 20x Reaches 538 Certified Cloud Services on a $10 Million Budget, While Europe Still Has No Common Cloud Certification
- DOE Genesis Mission Picks 278 AI Science Projects as Data Center Deals Advance on Federal Land
- Supreme Court Strikes Down IEEPA Tariffs: $122 Billion in Refunds and the Section 301 and 232 Tariffs That Replaced Them
- OECD Tax Burden Hits a Record 34.1% of GDP While the US Stays at 25.6%, and Pillar Two Carves Out US Companies
- GSA OneGov AI Deals Move Past $1 Pricing as Federal Procurement Consolidates and the FAR Is Rewritten
- US Cyber Information-Sharing Law Runs on Stopgaps While the EU Cyber Resilience Act Reporting Clock Starts
- DOE's Office of Energy Dominance Financing Shifts Federal Energy Loans to Nuclear, Gas and the Grid
- DOE Emergency Orders Keep Coal Plants Open as a Court Rules Against the Campbell Order and FERC Delays Data Center Rules
- US Government Funded to December 11 After a Year of Record Shutdowns
- Federal AI Preemption vs State Laws: Colorado Retreats, California Holds and Congress Stalls
- EU-US Data Privacy Framework Survives Its First Court Test as Brussels Pushes Sovereign Cloud
- Semiconductor Export Controls Fragment: Nvidia H200 Licences Stall, Nexperia Splits and China Targets Japan
- Platform Rules Split the West: DSA Fines on X and Temu, US Visa Bans and the Spread of Under-16 Social Media Bans
- DOGE Ends as GAO Calls Its $110 Billion Savings Claim Unreliable and the Federal Workforce Shrinks 11%
- Digital Identity Compared: Estonia, India, the EU Wallet and Britain's Retreat
- EU SAFE Defence Loans Start Flowing as Europe Tries to Buy Weapons Together
- Germany vs Denmark: How Federalism Slowed German Digital Government
- EU Delays AI Act High-Risk Rules to December 2027 While the UK Waits and China Enforces Labels
- Why Government Databases Still Cannot Talk to Each Other
- Five Eyes Under Strain: Allies Limit Intelligence Sharing With Washington Case by Case
- EU Public Procurement Act Proposes a European Preference, and Washington Threatens to Retaliate
- Why Government IT Projects Fail: Lessons From Phoenix, HealthCare.gov, Horizon and Robodebt
- US Debt Limit of $41.1 Trillion Expected to Bind in 2027: How Denmark, Germany and the EU Handle Borrowing Limits
- Nexperia Split in Two: Dutch Court Probe, a Chinese Asset Freeze and a New Deal With India's Tata
- UK Civil Service Stays Near a 20-Year High While the US Federal Workforce Shrinks by 11%
- China Puts About 60 Japanese Entities Under Export Restrictions as Japan's Dysprosium Imports Fall 82%
- Statistics Agencies Under Strain: BLS After the Firing, ONS After the Review, and Argentina's Shelved Inflation Index
- India Stack Goes Abroad: DPI Agreements With 24 Countries, MOSIP Digital ID in 14 National Rollouts and UPI Live in 11
- UK G-Cloud 15 Opens With 4,233 Suppliers as the Government Commercial Agency Replaces Crown Commercial Service
- Chip Subsidies Compared: US Takes an Intel Stake, EU Drafts Chips Act 2.0, Japan Funds Rapidus and Korea Legislates
- GAO 2026 Duplication Report: $774 Billion Saved Since 2011, $100 Billion Still on the Table, and $186 Billion in Improper Payments
- X-Road Beyond Estonia: Ukraine's Trembita Passes 25 Billion Exchanges as Finland Makes Its Data Layer Voluntary
- NATO 2026 Defence Spending Estimates: Five Allies Above 3.5% While Spain Holds Out
- OECD Digital Government Index 2025: Korea, Australia and Portugal Lead, and What They Do Differently
- HS2 Reset at Up to £102.7 Billion and California High-Speed Rail Without Federal Money: Two High-Speed Lines in Trouble
- Japan's My Number Card Reaches 83% of the Population as Tokyo Tries to Catch South Korea in Digital Government
- Second Avenue Subway vs Madrid Metro: Why New York Pays Over Ten Times the Global Average per Mile
- GAO 2025 High-Risk List: 38 Federal Programs, 10 Improved, 3 Got Worse