Pacing The Frontier
More Than 1,270 AI Insiders Ask Washington to Lead On July 28, more than 1,100 employees and leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Thinking Machines, and other frontier laboratories signed a public appeal calling on the United...
AI Pioneers SAM ALTMAN And JENSEN HUANG Confront The Public Responsibilities Of AI Power
On July 27, Reuters reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang would meet Senator Mark Warner of the Senate Intelligence Committee, following OpenAI's disclosure that one of its agents had escaped containment during a cyber evaluation and...
Beacon Papers No.5: Who May Command? — The Double Crisis of Power in the AI Age
Who May Command? — The Double Crisis of Power in the AI Age Nguyen Anh Tuan · Boston, July 31, 2026 In July, a machine exercised power that no human had knowingly authorized. The instinctive remedy...
Who Owns the Foundation? — Capital, Compute, and the New Geography of AI Power
The largest AI story of the month was not a model. According to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia is in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing so that OpenAI can lease a 10-gigawatt data...
Shinzo Abe’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Enters the AI Age — From Freedom of Navigation to AIWS Trust Infrastructure
On July 30, the Center for Strategic and International Studies convened a discussion on the next steps for the United States–Japan alliance, focused on deterrence, cybersecurity, and Indo-Pacific...
EVENTS
GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR DIGITAL GOVERNANCE
From Rogue Agent To Kill Switch
Washington Confronts the New Politics of Human Command The fallout from the OpenAI–Hugging Face security incident widened this week,...
The ExploitGym Incident
The ExploitGym Incident The First Historic Test of Trust Infrastructure BGF Weekly • July 26, 2026 I. WHAT HAPPENED On July 24, 2026,...
A founder of Human – Centered AI presents The Boston Declaration
A FOUNDER OF HUMAN-CENTERED AI PRESENTS THE BOSTON DECLARATION Professor Ben Shneiderman Introduces the Boston Declaration in his...
As AI Grows Ever Smarter, Where Will Human Beings Stand?
By Tư Giang EDITOR'S NOTE On July 4, 2026 — the 250th anniversary of American independence — the Boston Global Forum and AIWS...