Category: Policy & Regulation
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Superalignment: Everything You Need to Know for AI Safety
The promise of artificial superintelligence is intoxicating systems that outthink humanity across every domain, solving intractable problems in moments. But here’s the sobering reality: if today’s alignment techniques buckle under superhuman capabilities, who or what ensures these machines serve human intent rather than subvert it? Superalignment steps in as the answer, defined as the…
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Superalignment in Practice: How Enterprises Can Keep Advanced AI Aligned and Under Control
The emergence of advanced AI systems is forcing enterprises to confront a central question: can highly capable AI be reliably aligned with human and organizational values while remaining under robust human control? Superalignment is an emerging discipline focused on answering that question at scale before AI systems reach or surpass human-level general intelligence. For technology…
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Southeast Asia’s Rising Strategic Weight: Enterprise Risk in a Contested Region
The concern is palpable: as Southeast Asia emerges as the fulcrum of US-China rivalry, how should enterprises calibrate risk in a region where supply chains, maritime routes, and mineral resources hang in the balance? This framing captures the stake yet it risks oversimplifying a landscape defined not just by great-power contestation, but by internal fractures…
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Why the Rush to Predict AI Apocalypse Is Missing the Real Strategic Shift
The impulse to herald an AI-driven apocalypse mass unemployment, rogue autonomous weapons, superintelligent machines seizing the reins is palpable amid breakthroughs in large language models and robotics. Yet this lens misses the prosaic reality unfolding: incremental advances hemmed in by energy constraints, regulatory barriers, and human safeguards. Far from existential peril, global AI rivalry has…
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Will We Make It To 2027: Global Growth Risks and Resilience Ahead
The question “Will we make it to 2027?” echoes a quiet dread among executives and policymakers: can the global economy steer through mounting geopolitical tensions, trade disruptions, monetary tightening, and sobering technology expectations without tipping into recession or stagnation? Yet this stark framing overlooks the nuance in recent forecasts from the IMF, Kearney, World Bank,…
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TikTok’s Regulatory Reprieve Masks a Deeper AI Security Crisis: Why Data Localization Fails Against Model Vulnerabilities
Most coverage of TikTok’s latest regulatory reprieve casts it as a straightforward victory for ByteDance a sidestep of national security fears through economic muscle and innovation appeals. This view ignores the operational truth: with AI driving platforms like TikTok’s recommendation engine, the real challenge for regulators and enterprises lies not merely in data access, but…
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Why the AI Dystopia Narrative Is Losing Ground to Pragmatic Realities
The fear is palpable: AI as harbinger of doom—robots in revolt, jobs vanishing, societies crumbling—still grips headlines and policy rooms. Yet this narrative jars against mounting evidence from the field: AI integrating into economies and workflows, delivering tangible productivity boosts under regulatory scrutiny and competitive strategies that favor mastery over mayhem. Major players—the United States,…
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Security Hiring’s DEI Problem: When Specialization and Inclusion Collide
Most executives evaluate hires through the prism of talent optimization or cultural fit—yet when cybersecurity threats demand specialists with narrow, often unconventional backgrounds, these choices expose raw tensions between risk mitigation and diversity mandates that few organizations have reconciled. The push for diversity is understandable: boards face relentless pressure from regulators, investors, and internal advocates…
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China’s Photonic Chip Could Rewrite the AI Hardware Playbook—Here’s Why
China’s latest move in AI hardware is not another GPU, accelerator card, or custom ASIC. It is a photonic chip built on a 6‑inch thin‑film lithium niobate (TFLN) wafer, developed by CHIPX and Turing Quantum, and it is already running inside production data centers in China. The team claims up to 1,000× acceleration for specific…
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LLMs Burned Billions But Still Haven’t Built Another Tailwind
The core problem is that billions poured into large language models have mostly produced demos, not durable, compounding developer platforms. Tailwind CSS, by contrast, is a tiny, focused product that became infrastructure for front‑end work—and almost nothing in the LLM boom has matched that kind of pragmatic, enduring leverage. For all the money that has…
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X could be banned in UK amid inappropriate AI images
The prospect of a major social platform being effectively banned in one of the world’s largest economies would have seemed unthinkable a few years ago. Yet that is precisely the scenario now hanging over Elon Musk’s X in the United Kingdom, as regulators and politicians react to a wave of non‑consensual, sexualised AI images generated…
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App Stores, AI, and the Deepfake Reckoning: How Grok Forced a Showdown Over Platform Safety
When three U.S. senators ask Apple and Google to pull one of the world’s largest social platforms and its flagship AI product from their app stores, it is not just another content-moderation skirmish. It is a stress test of the entire platform governance model that Big Tech has spent the past decade selling to regulators,…
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AI in 2026: Agentic Systems, Cloud Intelligence, and the Next Wave of Enterprise Transformation
Artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation to large-scale production, and the next two to three years will define how enterprises compete, automate, and innovate. By 2026, AI will be less about standalone models and more about composable, agentic systems tightly integrated with cloud, automation, and an emerging layer of physical and quantum capabilities. Organizations that…
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Years of Silence: How Chinese Spies Infiltrated America’s Communications and Congress
Chinese state-linked hackers from the group known as Salt Typhoon have spent years quietly burrowing into the digital backbone of U.S. power—from telecommunications carriers and data centers to the email systems of congressional staff on the most sensitive House committees. The recently disclosed breach of House email accounts is not an isolated incident but the…
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US, EU and UK Diverge on Tech Regulation as States and Sector Rules Race Ahead of Federal Law
The United States, European Union, and United Kingdom are no longer drifting but decisively diverging in how they regulate technology and artificial intelligence. That divergence is reshaping compliance, competition, and even geopolitics, as Brussels doubles down on rule‑heavy oversight, London markets “pro‑innovation” flexibility, and Washington relies on sector regulators while political tensions with Europe escalate.…
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Racing Against the AI Clock: How the Pentagon Is Automating Its Cybersecurity Fortress
The Pentagon is racing to secure an AI‑enabled military at the same speed that new AI threats emerge. To break out of a human‑limited, episodic testing model, the Department of Defense (DOD) is moving from traditional red‑team exercises to autonomous purple‑team operations—AI systems that continuously attack, defend, and validate the security of battlefield and enterprise…
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X turns Grok’s abusive deepfakes into a “premium” feature – and forces a global reckoning over AI accountability
X’s decision to restrict Grok’s image editing to paying users is less a safety fix than a flashpoint in a growing global backlash against AI-fuelled image-based abuse. Regulators and governments across multiple continents are now testing how far they can go to hold a Musk-owned platform to account and, in the process, expose deep gaps…
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Coal Consumption in Europe at Scale: A Continent in Managed Decline
Coal consumption in Europe is falling rapidly in both absolute and relative terms, but it remains highly concentrated in a few countries and still plays a strategic—if diminishing—role in the continent’s energy system. The European Union’s coal story is, above all, a story of scale and decline. At its peak around the late 1990s and…
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Bitcoin Is No Longer the Dark Web’s King: How Stablecoins Turned into a $154 Billion Crypto Nightmare
Stablecoins have quietly dethroned Bitcoin as the currency of choice for the dark web, transforming the way illicit actors move money online—and creating a $154 billion regulatory nightmare that now overlaps with the same rails powering remittances, trading, and everyday payments. At the center of this shift is a paradox: the very attributes that make…
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Damn Vulnerable AI Bank (DVAIB): Inside the New Training Ground for AI Security in Finance
Damn Vulnerable AI Bank (DVAIB) is an intentionally insecure AI-powered banking environment designed as a hands‑on lab for attacking and defending AI systems in financial scenarios. It gives security teams, red‑teamers, and developers a realistic sandbox to practice prompt injection, AI supply‑chain attacks, data poisoning, and broader AI‑driven fraud techniques—before those attacks hit real banks.…