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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 […]

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

Top of the Day China, US push quantum race forward with major chip advances in one day (Sujita Sinha – Interesting Engineering – 21 February 2025) China has taken a significant step forward in the global race for quantum computing supremacy. Researchers at Peking University have successfully demonstrated large-scale quantum entanglement on an optical chip, […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (19 February 2025)

Top of the Day Why Corporate AI Projects Succeed or Fail (Dylan Walsh – Stanford HAI – 18 February 2025) It’s a mad competition for AI talent. Job postings for machine learning and AI engineers increased 70-80% in the beginning of 2024 compared with 2023. Companies are offering new recruits substantial compensation and big budgets […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (18 February 2025)

Top of the Day   Confronting Gendered Harm in Cyberspace is not a Matter of Social Justice — It’s a National Security Imperative   (Pavlina Pavlova – Just Security – 17 February 2025) As the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on Information and Communication Technologies (OEWG) convenes the 10th substantive session in New York, cyber […]