On the margins of UNGA 81, leading civil society and digital rights organizations will examine balancing aspirations for digital sovereignty.

Chess, LoRA, and the case for specialized AI

AI Sovereignty, the Architecture of Participation, and our Rockefeller-sponsored Bellagio Convening

SemiAnalysis thinks the DeepMind shakeup means Google is losing the AI race. It might be that Google is choosing to run a different race.

Thoughts on model "culture" as a kind of lock-in

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Why AI needs markets — and how specialized production / open protocols can enable this.

Jeff Ding's diffusion theory of the role of technology in great-power competition also applies to AI adoption, and it suggests that companies obsessed with the frontier might be optimizing for the wro...

Introducing the 2026 AI Economy Institute Fellows, a global cohort advancing research on AI’s impact on work, firms, and economies.

Why better agent discovery is needed – and why broadcasting may be the answer

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Tell Us What You’re Optimizing For

If "context" is king, we need to ensure it remains fluid and accessible by third-party developers

Isobel Moure, Jul 30, 2025 — With model performance converging, user data is the new advantage — and Big Tech is sealing it off.

If AI is going to be governed as a market technology, it must be brought into the market’s accountability machinery, write Dr. Ilan Strauss and Tim O'Reilly.

If AI is going to be governed as a market technology, it must be brought into the market’s accountability machinery, write Dr. Ilan Strauss and Tim O'Reilly.

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With All Due Respect, Jensen Huang: AI Is a Tool, Not a Worker

The SSRC makes available interdisciplinary research to inform policy, academic discourse, and the public. These publications are freely accessible and include policy working papers to essays for the g...

If AI is going to be governed as a market technology, it must be brought into the market’s accountability machinery, write Dr. Ilan Strauss and Tim O'Reilly.

What the latest Copyright Office report means for AI's training & inference, OpenAI's new head of monetization, Steve Bannon on AI regulations (bonus), and more.

Weekly Roundup 7 May, 2025: Matthew Prince makes a splash, OpenAI juices its benchmarks, 4o sycophant shows the need for post-deployment monitoring of behavioral risks, and more.

Disclosures are the language of networks and of markets

So you said you wanted the truth...

Most AI regulation misses the mark because regulators don't consider the real world context in which AI is deployed

An argument for open source, Microsoft's red team "goes rogue", covert benchmark funding, and inference-time compute for safety

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Standards, industrial policy, and the very visible shadow of China

Why Clio ought to be reporting on API and business usage, not just individual users