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Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (28 February 2025)

Top of the Day   Targeted by Ransomware, Middle East Banks Shore Up Security   (Robert Lemos – Dark Reading – 28 February 2025) Banks and financial services firms across the Middle East weathered simulated attacks at the fourth annual Cyber Wargaming exercise in the United Arab Emirates last week, but security experts continue to […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (27 February 2025)

Top of the Day   Human Rights and Democracy in the Quantum Age   (Maya Recanati – Just Security – 26 February 2025) On Feb. 19 2025, Microsoft unveiled Majorana 1, a quantum chip powered by a new state of matter that the company claims will help create more powerful and less error prone quantum […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (26 February 2025)

Top of the Day Export Controls on Open-Source Models Will Not Win the AI Race (Claudia Wilson and Emmie Hine – Just Security – 25 February 2025) Even prior to the release of DeepSeek-R1, a contentious policy debate was taking shape: should open-source AI be regulated? In the United States, this debate has been dominated […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (25 February 2025)

Top of the Day   Microsoft breakthrough challenges Australia’s quantum strategy   (Andrew Horton – ASPI The Strategist – 25 February 2025) The global strategic landscape is being redrawn not on battlefields, but in the arcane realm of quantum physics. Microsoft’s unveiling last week of Majorana 1 is a technological bombshell: it is the first […]

Weekly Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (24 February 2025)

Governance and Legislation Putting Explainable AI to the Test: A Critical Look at AI Evaluation Approaches (Mina Narayanan, Christian Schoeberl, Tim G. J. Rudner – Center for Security and Emerging Technology – February 2025) Explainability and interpretability are often cited as key characteristics of trustworthy AI systems, but it is unclear how they are evaluated […]