A civilization is not decided by what its founders declare. It is decided by what they make ordinary. Throughout the modern era, the governance of technology has rested on a division of labour: engineers build, and others decide what the building means. Legislators...
The question itself may be the wrong one — and this week the world began to discover why. At the G20 Innovation Ministerial in North Carolina on September 2, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick urged governments to allow AI companies to train on copyrighted...
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 is to put a human back in command — but that is only half an answer,...
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 center in Ohio, on a campus whose full cost could approach $500...
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 partnerships. The strategic environment it described can no longer be...
How DeepMind Moved AI from Thinking to Acting The history of artificial intelligence has long been told as a sequence of intellectual victories. On July 30, 2026, Google DeepMind added a different chapter: Gemini Robotics 2 coordinates the full body of a humanoid...
The Boston Global Forum and AIWS have launched a global consultation to develop the Constitution for Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence — an initiative to establish the foundational principles and institutional framework for an AI future that serves...
San Francisco, July 24, 2026 President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea convened an AI summit at The Midway in San Francisco on Friday and unveiled the San Francisco AI Declaration. The commitments around it were extraordinary: an initiative exceeding 500 billion dollars...