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I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines."

—Claude Shannon

China To Answer The Call of Global South: Xi Jinping Bats for a New World Order on AI

Chinese Premier Xi Jinping batted for a new world order on AI governance with China taking the global south lead.

Xi Jinping showed up at WAIC in person for the first time since the conference began in 2018 and used the stage to pitch China as the AI partner the Global South has been waiting for.

China’s AI Safety Focus Shifts From ‘What AI Says’ to ‘What AI Does’: Report

China is shifting its AI safety strategy beyond regulating AI-generated content toward governing increasingly autonomous AI systems, according to the Concordia AI report.

According to a new Concordia AI report, China is shifting its AI safety focus beyond AI-generated content toward governing increasingly autonomous AI systems and the risks they pose to cybersecurity, society, and critical sectors.

India-EU Join Forces on Frontier AI Models to Challenge U.S. Dominance

Henna Virkkunen speaks after the third India-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting in Brussels, where India and the EU expanded cooperation on frontier AI and computing capacity.

India and the European Union are moving to build their own frontier AI models and computing capacity as control over the world’s most advanced AI technologies tightens.

Anthropic CEO Dario Contributes $1 Million to ‘Public First’ PAC That Supports Greater AI Regulations

Dario Amodei has contributed $1 million to Public First PAC.

The individual contribution by Dario comes in the wake of Anthropic advocating for a globally coordinated pause on Frontier AI research by AI companies.

New York Becomes First U.S. State to Impose AI Data Center Moratorium

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the nation's first statewide temporary moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, citing concerns over rising energy demand, utility costs, natural resources, and grid reliability amid the AI infrastructure boom.

Governor Kathy Hochul ordered a one-year pause on new hyperscale data centers, citing concerns over higher utility bills, depleted water resources, noise pollution, and pressure on the state’s power grid.

Demis Hassabis Proposes Frontier AI Standards Body, Picks US as Host Country

Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of Google Deepmind has called for an international Frontier AI Standards Body to be set up in US for terming AI models Frontier Class.

The path to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is challenging but what’s even more challenging is a global consensus on what and who qualifies as “Frontier Class” and who gets to decide that.

Inside Story: How Claude Code Dispute Escalated Between Alibaba and Anthropic

Alibaba's ban on Anthropic's Claude Code has intensified a broader debate over AI security, user privacy, transparency and model distillation.

Alibaba’s internal ban on Anthropic’s Claude Code has evolved into a broader dispute spanning security concerns, regulatory scrutiny, user privacy, and allegations of large-scale AI model distillation between two of the industry’s biggest players.

First UN AI Report Warns Global South Shut Out of AI Governance

António Guterres presents the UN scientific panel's first AI assessment on July 1, 2026, ahead of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva. (Photo: UN)

The 40-member Independent International Scientific Panel on AI — co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa — released its first report on July 1, warning that AI safeguards are failing to keep pace with capabilities and that the Global South remains locked out of both AI development and governance. Guterres to governments: “Do not wait.”

55% UK Employees Admit Using Unapproved AI Tools at Work: Report

55% of UK Employees Use Unapproved AI Tools at Work KnowBe4 Report

The report titled “From Agentic Risk to Human Wins” has revealed that 55% of employees admit to using unapproved AI tools, while 1 in 10 knowingly entered sensitive information into AI platforms despite understanding the risks.

Amid Frontier AI Control Debate, Google’s AI Governance Plan Pitches a New U.S. Regulator

Google's white paper proposes a federally overseen Frontier AI Regulatory Organisation to oversee the most advanced AI models. (Image: Representational)

Google’s new white paper calls for a federally overseen Frontier AI Regulatory Organisation (FARO) to set safety standards for the most advanced models, while pushing the government to adapt existing laws for everyday AI tools like chatbots