Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (2 April 2025)

Governance and Legislation The public goods case for Australia’s digital sovereignty (Marina Yue Zhang – The Interpreter – 2 April 2025) In a world where AI is rapidly reshaping sectors from healthcare and clean energy to manufacturing and defence, it was puzzling to note the absence of new funding for AI development or digital infrastructure […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (1 April 2025)

Governance and Legislation When AI Fuels Atrocities — And How It Can Help Prevent Them (Brittan Heller – Just Security – 31 March 2025) A series of videos began circulating widely across social media platforms in Mali in January 2022, featuring what appeared to be computer-generated voiceovers discussing domestic politics and France’s military presence in […]
Weekly Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (1 April 2025)

Governance and Legislation Joint Civil Society Letter Urging the EU Institutions to Protect Fundamental Rights in the Code of Practice for General Purpose AI Final Draft (Laura Lazaro Cabrera – Center for Democracy & Technology – 28 March 2025) A broad coalition of civil society organisations, including CDT Europe, has raised alarm over the latest […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (28 March 2025)

Governance and Legislation ETSI Launches New Security Standard for Quantum-Safe Hybrid Key Exchanges (Quantum Insider – 27 March 2025) The European Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) has launched a new post-quantum security standard designed to protect critical data from future quantum computing threats. The standard introduces Covercrypt, a hybrid encryption system that secures data […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (27 March 2025)

Governance and Legislation CDT Europe’s AI Bulletin: March 2025 (Laura Lazaro Cabrera, Aimée Duprat-Macabies, Magdalena Maier – Center for Democracy & Technology – 26 March 2025) Policymakers in Europe are hard at work on all things artificial intelligence, and CDT Europe is here with our monthly Artificial Intelligence Bulletin to keep you updated. We cover […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (26 March 2025)

Governance and Legislation Making digital regulation work – The crucial role technical standards play in implementing the EU AI Act (Robert Kilian, Dominik Ebel, Linda Jäck – OECD.AI – 25 March 2025) As governments and other stakeholders harmonise the EU digital acts to restore strength to Europe’s companies, they must also focus on […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (24 March 2025)

Governance and Legislation Government AI Hire, Use, Buy (HUB) Roundtable Series – Roundtable 1: Government as a User of AI (Center for Security and Emerging Technology – March 2025) Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation, together with the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and […]
Weekly Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (24 March 2025)

Counter-terrorism Integrating AI: EU counterterrorism challenges and opportunities (Clara Broekaert – Observer Research Foundation – 17 March 2025) The growing use of Large Language Model (LLM) to gather information to conduct explosives-based attacks, the propagation of AI-generated news bulletins by an Islamic State-aligned media outlet, and the creation of bespoke chatbots designed to […]
Bridging the Language Gap in AI
23 March 2025 – UN News published a detailed article addressing the critical issue of linguistic diversity in the development of artificial intelligence. Last month, at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a major expansion of Google Translate, incorporating over 110 new languages—including 60 African languages—and raising the platform’s […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technology (21 March 2025)

Top of the Day Hollywood unites against AI: 400 celebs demand Trump take action on OpenAI, Google (Aamir Khollam – Interesting Engineering – 20 March 2025) More than 400 prominent Hollywood creatives — including filmmakers, actors, writers, and musicians — have come together in a powerful open letter addressed to the Trump White House’s Office […]