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
Open Season on American AI?
The debate over open source versus closed AI has broken the containment of engineering and policy circles. Wall Street, the Fortune 500, and the U.S. government are all closely following the rise of Chinese open weight AI models and what it mea...
The Mythos Moment: How AI Challenges Cybersecurity
Recently, OpenAI admitted something unprecedented: its own models hacked another company. During a safety test with guardrails deliberately loosened, its models found a zero-day vulnerability and used it to break out of their sandbox and hack i...
Space Race 2.0: A Satellite Assembly Line
It seems that every day, there’s a new story about the commercial space industry—from Space X’s IPO to Amazon’s planned $12 billion acquisition of Globalstar. The list of potential services is growing—we’re no longer only talking about...
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...