The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has issued a draft National Data Governance Framework to mobilise citizen non-personal data for use by public and private entities in a bid to improve services. The draft policy proposes launching a...
The United States has been working to codify the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative that focuses on six strategic pillars: improving AI innovation, advancing trustworthy AI, creating new education and training opportunities through AI, improving existing...
Robot with some social skills. A fascinating display of the Japanese artificial-intelligence sector is now open at Tokyo Big Sight. At the three-day AI World exhibition, 15 companies exhibited cutting-edge AI technology to try to build a society in which AI will make...
New research is being used to try to determine, via an algorithm, the links between "chatter'' in extremist groups' online places and their "real world'' terror attacks. The Washington Post reports: "The study, published last week by the journal Science,...
The European Union and the United States have agreed on changes to an important data-transfer agreement. The pact includes stricter rules for companies holding information on Europeans and clearer limits on U.S. surveillance. E.U. member nations are expected...
U.S. officials say that at least one Chinese military ship tailed the USS John C. Stennis , an aircraft carrier, daily during its recent cruise through the South China Sea. But The Washington Post, in another of its frequent updates on tensions in the sea, said...
China is pressing ahead with efforts to make it easier for dictatorships like that of Chinese President Xi Jinping to censor information on the Internet under the guise of “cybersovereignty’’. Cybersovereignty is a concept used to try to maintain the power of...
It might surprise readers that this not done long ago: Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are pushing to have North Korea designated a state sponsor of terrorism, with Iran, Sudan and Syria, eight years after the Communist dictatorship was taken off the...