Artificial intelligence

Q1 2025 Quantum Technology Investment: What’s Driving the Surge in Quantum Investment? (Quantum Insider)

Investment in quantum computing surged in Q1 2025, with over $1.25 billion raised—more than double the previous year—signaling a shift from research to commercial...

China allegedly making its own supercomputer chips to cut dependence on US tech (Interesting Engineering)

Supercomputers have been a powerful tool ever since their birth in the 1960s. Today, almost every nation has advanced supercomputing facilities and systems capable...

UK’s Royal Navy to use AI for ‘hostile’ threats, including Russian movements in Arctic (Interesting Engineering)

Russia’s war efforts in Ukraine show no signs of slowing down any time soon. The UK has now gone on alert regarding the Russians’...

AI regulation fight heats up over US federal moratorium (DigWatch)

The US House of Representatives has passed a budget bill containing a 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state-level artificial intelligence laws. With broad...

Trump’s Gulf AI gambit to reshape the Middle East tech landscape (Nadeem Ahmed Moonakal, Megha Shrivastava – The Interpreter)

While the world watched Donald Trump’s high-profile visit to the Middle East alongside Silicon Valley’s biggest names, only a few would have anticipated that...

AI-Driven Productivity Scenarios (Paul Samson, S. Yash Kalash, Nikolina Zivkovic – CIGI)

Technological development and diffusion are rapidly transforming economic, financial and societal systems. Policy and legal frameworks may be unable to keep pace with approaches...

AI regulation offers development opportunity for Latin America (DigWatch)

Latin America is uniquely positioned to lead on AI governance by leveraging its social rights-focused policy tradition, emerging tech ecosystems, and absence of legacy...

AI to disrupt jobs, warns DeepMind CEO, as Gen Alpha faces new realities (DigWatch)

AI will likely cause significant job disruption in the next five years, according to Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. Speaking on the Hard...

AI, Tech, and the Future of US-Gulf Relations (Middle East Institute)

Hosts Alistair Taylor and Matthew Czekaj speak with MEI Senior Fellow Mohammed Soliman about President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia, the UAE,...

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