THE BEACON PAPERS · No. 4 Who May Verify? The Missing Institution of the AI Age Nguyen Anh Tuan · Boston, July 27, 2026 In the space of a single month, a state legislature, the United States Congress, the world's leading laboratories, and the European Commission...
Anthropic Gives Claude a Voice. Not Every Model Gets to Speak The interface is quietly becoming a governance boundary BGF Weekly Shaping Futures • July 26, 2026 On July 23, Anthropic rebuilt the way people talk to Claude. Spoken conversations, which had run for months...
Tokyo, April 2026 — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and French President Emmanuel Macron used their Tokyo meeting to deepen strategic cooperation as both countries respond to rising geopolitical, economic, and security pressures. Reporting on the summit...
Google has introduced Gemma 4 as its most capable open model family to date, designed for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, and released under an Apache 2.0 license. Google says Gemma has already been downloaded more than 400 million times, with a community...
Boston, MA — The America at 250 Conference will feature a special luncheon dialogue, “America at 250: How Storytelling Influences Democracy in the AI Age,” from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM at the Harvard Faculty Club on May 1, 2026. Moderated by award-winning filmmaker Gita...
Innovation, Responsibility, and Humanity in the AI Age Distinguished leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, Before I begin, I would like to express my deep gratitude to Mr. Yasuhide Nakayama, Director of the Global South...
The Boston Global Forum is honored to announce that Vint Cerf will receive the 2026 World Leader for Peace and Security Award as a symbolic representative of the American people at the America at 250 Conference on May 1, 2026, at Loeb House, Harvard University. Vint...
Jason Carter and Vint Cerf to Receive the Award as Symbolic Representatives at the America at 250 Conference, Harvard University Loeb House, May 1, 2026 Boston, Mass., March 25, 2026 — The Boston Global Forum (BGF) today announced the presentation of the 2026 World...