… Southeast Asians are among the most optimistic about AI, with 80% of Indonesians, 77% of Malaysians, and 79% of Thais agreeing. Critically, while over half the survey respondents said they trust their government to regulate AI responsibly, only 31% in the U.S. did — the lowest score in the study. …
… The incident tarnished a historic moment, as South Africa was set to become the first African nation to adopt a policy establishing a formal ethics board to oversee AI outside the West. “The most plausible explanation is that AI-generated citations were included without proper verification,” Solly … …
… Cooperation requires trust between governments, and that remains scarce, she said. “The thing that we underestimate is that the cost of coordination is quite high and there’s a lot to overcome from a geopolitical or political economy perspective between countries, so there’s always the incentive fo…
… Investing in open AI frameworks is investing in digital public infrastructure because it yields benefits through lower costs, retained policy autonomy, and economy-wide productivity gains. …
… Please pay on Google Pay and then we will send the order,” a voice said on the other end. “Usually, I use my credit card with the delivery guy,” Vijay said. “Yes sir, but this is a big order. For these orders we have started a new prepayment policy,” the man on the phone said. …
… As AI agents become more integrated into the economy, companies and entities that deploy them will benefit disproportionately compared to those that cannot, Nick Srnicek, a senior lecturer in digital economy at King’s College London, told Rest of World . “We will see new inequalities of access, sca… …
… HolonIQ, a research firm that advises governments and investors on education sectors, noted in a February analysis that money is flowing toward AI tools and training platforms that help companies hire, cut costs, and teach workers new skills. …
… He pointed to automakers from South Korea, Japan, and Europe that are developing their own affordable EV models for the U.S. market. “I don’t believe that U.S. policy is necessarily cutting the U.S. auto industry off from the global automotive technology frontier,” Ezell said. “That doesn’t mean th… …
… Profits “border on the unthinkable” For economists, labor analysts, and policymakers studying AI’s effects on the economy, the Samsung dispute is not a conventional wage negotiation, but “one of the most significant labor actions we have seen,” Adrian Brown, chief executive of Windfall Trust think … …
… Fundamentally, we are able to experience really good technology on the AI side of things because of a lot of the public data that we have in open-source data sets or public forums, like Wikipedia and Reddit. We just don’t have that in the robotics domain or rather in the general physical AI domain. …