Think Tank Quickies (#489)

• Ukraine's Zelensky makes appeal to US think tanks.
• Tony Blair think tank revenue hit $140 million.
  
• Politico: "There was a secretive meeting at the Heritage Foundation that reportedly included allies of Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban."
  
• Myron Ebell, a leading climate change denier for 2+ decades, is set to retire from think tank CEI.
  
• Eric Schmidt's think tank, Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), urges moonshot chase to keep US ahead.
• Heritage Foundation using questionnaire to test the ideology of potential recruits for the next Republican presidential administration.
• OpenAI's Sam Altman confronted board member Helen Toner, a director of CSET, for co-writing a paper that seemingly criticized OpenAI for "stoking the flames of AI hype."
• House Republican Conference invited Capitol Hill staffers to a briefing with the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI).
• Thomas Spoehr, previously director of the Heritage Foundation's Center for National Defense, is now a senior adviser at CSIS.
• "The list of former high CIA officers now affiliated to GU/CSIS is indeed impressive."  [GU referring to Georgetown University.]