Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty
… Africa’s AI sovereignty relies on governance, technical expertise, and political structures. …
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AI is giving tech companies power that once belonged to governments
… In the 1950s, nuclear governance emerged against the backdrop of unmistakable devastation and a clear existential threat. …
India’s AI deal with the UAE challenges U.S. cloud dominance
… The UAE-India deal India’s autonomous scientific society, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, will work with G42’s Core42 unit, with all data remaining under Indian governance rules. …
What’s at stake for tech at the Trump-Xi meeting
… China has condemned U.S. chip restrictions as an “abuse” of export controls. …
Can India be a “third way” AI alternative to the U.S. and China?
… India’s recently released AI Governance Guidelines ask regulators to “support innovation while mitigating real harms; avoid compliance-heavy regimes; promote techno-legal approaches; ensure frameworks are flexible and subject to periodic review.” These recommendations suggest an effort to keep AI g… …
A Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of is now watching the U.S. border
…It has established prison surveillance systems and provided drones and tactical vehicles to government partners. It received a government contract for meteorological radars, and built an aerospace division called SeguriSpace that launched…
Scarcity is driving AI innovation outside Silicon Valley
… It will be drawn around places that have learned to build when compute is costly and strategic, and where the question of who controls the stack is more consequential. …
Can we really keep kids safe online?
… When we were working on parental controls at AOL in the beginning, it was sort of simple: Just allow a webpage or don’t allow a webpage. …
The global push to rein in Big Tech
… After years of locking horns with Big Tech companies over disinformation and hate speech, governments are using legislation to deny them users in some of their biggest markets, even as digital rights groups caution that it could lead to more pervasive controls. “The era of Big Tech invincibility is… …
An old railroad is key to U.S.-China race for critical metals in Africa
… China controls most of the mines and most of the processing factories for these critical minerals, but a big question was how to get the minerals out. …