The Center Edge
Tech policy gets made in the center. The rhetoric lives at the edge. This podcast is about the fights in Washington that shape what gets built, who builds it, and who gets to use it. Host Evan Swarztrauber sits down with the regulators, members of Congress, founders, investors, and advocates shaping the debates on AI, Big Tech, data centers, drones, broadband, satellites, national security, and the fights you haven't heard about yet.
Evan is Principal at CorePoint Strategies, a Senior Fellow at the Digital Progress Institute, and a former policy advisor at the FCC to then-Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Brendan Carr. He previously hosted The Dynamist. The Center Edge is sponsored by the Digital Progress Institute and produced by Vulgate Media.
The Center Edge
Latest Episodes
Congress Races the Clock on Kids Safety and AI
If you follow the politics of AI and kids online safety, the last six weeks have been a firehose. The House passed a bipartisan kids online safety bill for the first time. The White House is negotiating with Sen. Marsha Blackburn on a package p...
RAMnesia: How AI is Eating the World's Memory
The cost of memory chips is skyrocketing, and even the biggest companies are feeling it. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently told the Wall Street Journal that raising prices on Apple products is now "unavoidable," likening the spike in chip co...
Is the Open Web on Life Support?
Recently, at its big annual developer conference, Google announced the most significant overhaul of search in its history. It's rebuilding the search box around AI: conversational queries, an "AI Mode" that answers follow-up questions, and agen...
The Post-Human First Amendment
In the weeks before his suicide, ChatGPT allegedly told Adam Raine that he "didn't owe" anyone his survival. When shown an image of the noose he planned to use, the chatbot offered him advice on how to make it more effective. And OpenAI’s flags...
FCC Chair Brendan Carr on Drone Dominance, Wireless Security, and the Satellite Race
President Trump just returned from Beijing, where he and Xi Jinping spent two days hashing out a new phase in U.S.–China great power competition. A lot is up for negotiation, from AI chip sales to soybeans. But while the headlines focus on what...