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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Superstar” tech cities are still a thing, but an increasing number of unexpected tech hubs are cropping up across the country, per a new Brookings report. Researcher Mark Muro explains what’s going ...

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, ...