Artificial intelligence

AI Access Controls and the Rise of a Digital Thalassocracy

(Ishita Deshmukh - Observer Research Foundation) Digital thalassocracy describes power derived from controlling AI chokepoints—chips, models, sub-sea cables and cloud infrastructure—mirroring how historical powers...

India in the AI Race: Why Compute Will Decide Power

(Amal Chandra - Observer Research Foundation) India’s artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions are substantial and increasingly visible. The country has emerged as a major hub...

Can Government of and by API Still Be Government ‘for the People’?

(James Goodwin, Arvind Salem - Lawfare) When Anthropic, the U.S. company behind the Claude artificial intelligence (AI) tool, refused to allow its product to...

UN chief urges global rules for AI governance

(DigWatch) UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged governments, companies and civil society to move faster on global AI governance, warning that the technology is...

Altman proposes US-led international forum for AI safety standards

(DigWatch) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called for the creation of a US-led international forum to establish global safety standards for AI, arguing that...

The US government’s latest U-turn on Anthropic’s Mythos sends mixed signals on AI governance

(Isabella Wilkinson - Chatham House) On Tuesday, the United States Department of Commerce removed restrictions on two of Anthropic’s new advanced AI models that...

Trump puts allies on notice: AI power comes first

(Maria Curi, Ashley Gold - Axios) President Trump is redefining what it means to be a U.S. ally in the AI era. For the...

Job ads show DeepSeek aims for an AI agent with cybersecurity capabilities

(Alex Colville - ASPI The Strategist) New job postings from DeepSeek show the Chinese AI lab plans to build an agentic model that can...

China’s military AI logistics: peacetime gains, wartime vulnerabilities

(Gerald Mako - ASPI The Strategist) For decades, Chinese military planners have viewed logistics as the decisive factor in any campaign against Taiwan and...

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