The Who's Who of AI

“Tyler Whitmer & Ben Rashkovich of LASST explain xAI's suit against California's AB 2013, a law requiring AI developers to publish general documentation of their training datasets—what they call the functional equivalent of an ingredient label.”

“Facial recognition technology supplied by a Spanish firm and largely banned in the EU is running on around 4,000 cameras across India, Investigate Europe reports.”

“The age of purely private AI is ending. S. Yash Kalash (CIGI) asks the harder question: will public participation arrive deliberately and democratically — or through crisis, coercion, and backroom deals?”

“For decades we regarded the Internet as infrastructure used primarily by people. Following the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, Konstantinos Komaitis argues AI agents challenge that assumption—and AI governance can no longer stay separate from Internet governa…”

“Geneva was a mirror, writes Konstantinos Komaitis: a world that knows AI can't be governed alone but "lacks the courage to decide what governing together is actually meant to achieve." Until AI has a North Star, every UN dialogue just manages disagreement.”

“Dr. Velislava Hillman and Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger argue that as AI erodes job markets, it exposes the reality that the crisis facing young people "was never primarily technological, but political." Time to rethink what education is for, they say.”

“James Görgen finds three absences in the Stanford "We Must Act Now" letter: those responsible for AI's risks, the Global South, and the governance race already underway — from Washington's executive orders to China's new WAICO.”

“Both the US and China are moving toward banning each other's most capable AI models. Mark MacCarthy of Georgetown argues these bans would be costly—and that a cooperative safety regime offers a better path.”

“The cost of building Europe's own frontier AI capacity may be very large. Igor Sevenard and Richard J. Cook argue the cost of not building it may be even larger, and grow every year as the capability gap widens.”

“OpenAI has discussed giving the U.S. government a 5% equity stake. India may take a stake in Sarvam AI. Gulf states are building AI through sovereign wealth capital. S. Yash Kalash (CIGI) argues the nationalization of AI has, quietly, already begun.”

“A ban on romantic chatbots omits the general purpose AIs that teens actually confide in. Andrew McStay writes that defining ‘intimate functionality’ in relation to emulated empathy will help.”

““The UN’s global AI governance discourse appears to simultaneously throttle the gas and brakes on AI, promoting global AI adoption while it warns about the serious risks it poses to society,” writes Bradley McNeil. Its "AI vision risks entrenching the very …”

“Both the US and China are moving toward banning each other's most capable AI models. Mark MacCarthy of Georgetown argues these bans would be costly—and that a cooperative safety regime offers a better path.”

“Tim Bernard reviews a new preprint study by Jeba Sania, Marta Ziosi, and Fazl Barez examining how six AI systems across democracies and autocracies embed features that can enable authoritarian practices.”

“The cost of building Europe's own frontier AI capacity may be very large. Igor Sevenard and Richard J. Cook argue the cost of not building it may be even larger, and grow every year as the capability gap widens.”

“When AI hiring tools go wrong, vendors say the employer decides. Employers say the system decided. Samonne Montgomery writes that these are not opposite arguments — they are the same institutional dodge.”

“Tim Bernard reviews a new preprint study by Jeba Sania, Marta Ziosi, and Fazl Barez examining how six AI systems across democracies and autocracies embed features that can enable authoritarian practices.”

“Facial recognition technology supplied by a Spanish firm and largely banned in the EU is running on around 4,000 cameras across India, Investigate Europe reports.”