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Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (12 June 2025)

Governance and Legislation Europe’s new digital diplomacy: From principles to power (DigWatch – 11 June 2025) In a decisive geopolitical shift, the European Union has unveiled its 2025 International Digital Strategy, signalling a turn from a values-first diplomacy to a focus on security and competitiveness. As Jovan Kurbalija explains in his blog post titled ‘EU […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (11 June 2025)

Governance and Legislation UK cyber agency pushes for ‘strategic policy agenda’ as government efforts stall /Alexander Martin – The Record – 10 June 2025) Following years-long delays in the United Kingdom bringing forward new cybersecurity legislation, what seems to be an increasingly exasperated National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) called on Monday for the country to […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (10 June 2025)

Governance and Legislation Switzerland to begin crypto data sharing in 2026 (DigWatch – 9 June 2025) Switzerland’s Federal Council has approved a bill to enable automatic exchange of crypto asset information with 74 partner countries. The bill, announced on 6 June, is expected to come into effect in January 2026, with the first data exchanges […]

Weekly Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (9 June 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies The EU sets out its International Digital Strategy (European Commission – 5 June 2025) Today, the European Commission and the High Representative are setting out a joint vision for the EU’s external action for digital. As the digital revolution is reshaping economies and societies in a global geopolitical landscape which is […]

Daily Digest on AI & Emerging Technologies (6 June 2025)

Governance and Legislation Strengthening global AI Safety: A perspective on the Singapore Consensus (Lee Wan Sie, Denise Wong – OECD.AI – 5 June 2025) As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies advance rapidly, societies around the world face a growing urgency to ensure that the AI safety research keeps pace and that these tools are not only […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (5 June 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies Global cybercrime experts meet at Council of Europe 2025 conference (Council of Europe – 4 June 2025) From 4 to 6 June 2025, the Council of Europe is bringing together over 500 leading cybercrime experts from around the world in Strasbourg to address current challenges, review the global landscape of cybercrime […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (4 June 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies Introducing the OECD AI Capability Indicators (OECD – 3 June 2025) The report introduces the OECD’s beta AI Capability Indicators. The indicators are designed to assess and compare AI advancements against human abilities. Developed over five years by a collaboration of over 50 experts, the indicators cover nine human abilities, from […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (3 June 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies FDA deploys generative AI tool Elsa to transform agency operations in historic move (Interesting Engineering – 2 June 2025) In a major step toward modernizing its operations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday launched Elsa, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, designed to help agency employees, including scientific […]

Weekly Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (2 June 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies Optimising Computing Approaches for India’s National AI Capabilities (Anulekha Nandi, Anusha Guru – Observer Research Foundation – 31 May 2025) Artificial Intelligence (AI) compute demand has grown exponentially for over a decade. Since 2011, the amount of compute used to train AI models has grown by a factor of 350 million. […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (30 May 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies AI Governance Needs Federalism, Not a Federally Imposed Moratorium (David S. Rubenstein – Just Security – 29 May 2025) On May 22, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget proposal including  a ten-year moratorium on state and local regulation of AI. The proposal aims to nullify dozens of existing state […]