Think Tank Quickies (#526)

• American First Policy Institute (AFPI) announces $10 million initiative "to develop AI policies aimed at supporting workers."
• The Heritage Foundation goes from MAGA to MEGA - Make Europe Great Again.
• American First Policy Institute received more than $4.4 million from DonorsTrust in 2024, while America First Legal Foundation received $21.3 million from the dark money nonprofit. 
• Angus Fletcher, Professor of Story Science at Ohio State's Project Narrative, "the world's leading academic think tank for the study of how stories work." 
• Kenneth Weinstein, former President and CEO of Hudson, named as CBS News ombudsman.  He is also a senior adviser at Brunswick Group.
• The Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations was founded as an offshoot of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York. 
• The National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS): An in-house think tank of Japan's Ministry of Defense. 
• Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin has joined the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, a think tank led by former British prime minister Tony Blair. 
• The Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Research Institute: "A self-described artificial intelligence think tank." (US universities have deep connections to it).
• The Searchlight Institute: "A new Democratic think tank."