Prior to the pandemic, America’s tech sector was largely concentrated in a few urban areas like San Francisco and Boston, but COVID-induced remote work has led some to speculate that the tech industry ...

When we think of technology, especially software, Silicon Valley immediately comes to mind. But during the pandemic, remote work has gotten a lot of attention. So is this the end of Silicon Valley, or ...

Since the early days of the digital revolution, the San Francisco Bay area has played a key role from the rise of the microchip to today’s software giants like Facebook and Google. But why has the ...

Mark Muro, a senior fellow and the director of policy at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, leads the program's advanced-industries activities. He is an expert on regional ...

AI development is concentrated in just 15 areas, says Mark Muro of Brookings. “It behooves us to find ways for more places to participate.” There’s a lot at stake in the artificial intelligence race, ...

Brookings researchers have mapped which American cities are shining and which are struggling in the race to embrace artificial intelligence. They used more than a dozen metrics to benchmark AI ...

Mark Muro (@markmuro1) is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program there. Does the so-called gig economy of app-based freelancing for ...

Should conservation groups be able to buy federal timber just so they can leave it standing? Three environmental organizations recently posed that question in a formal petition to the Secretary of ...