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 is to put a human back in command — but that is only half an answer,...
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...
From Alphago To The Humanoid Robot
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...
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GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR DIGITAL GOVERNANCE
From Hiroshima to the AI Age: Building Trust Infrastructure for Global AI Governance
Japan has bet on being the world's most AI-friendly nation. But a former digital and cybersecurity minister warned that without...
The Tokyo Compact Officially Proclaimed at Interop Tokyo 2026
On June 12, 2026, at Interop Tokyo 2026 — among the largest and most influential technology gatherings in Asia — The Tokyo Compact:...
Anthropic Warns of Self-Improving AI: Why Trust Infrastructure Matters
Recent warnings from Anthropic have intensified global discussion about the future of Artificial Intelligence. The company cautioned...
Trust as the Operating System of the AI Age
The CTO Magazine interview with Governor Michael Dukakis and Nguyen Anh Tuan, discussing their book America at 250: A Beacon for the...