newer to the open model culture, Chinese companies have embraced open weights and built some of the world’s largest models.

72% of its responses had a significant sourcing issue.

the American Science and Security Platform (Platform)

comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project that was instrumental to our victory in World War II

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First, we have to separate users who are under 18 from those who aren’t (ChatGPT is intended for people 13 and up). We’re building an age-prediction system to estimate age based on how people use ChatGPT.

Additionally, CEOs of Europe’s leading tech companies presented their European AI & Tech Declaration, pledging to invest in and strengthen Europe’s tech sovereignty.

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Australia’s pioneering social media restrictions as a model under observation

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by a moderator and featured four core panellists.

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Anaphora: “We must… We must… We must…” – Cheryl Miller, repeating for emphasis on connectivity and cooperation.

“Digital divide as a growing chasm”

“Think of the children if we don’t act now!”

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based on the ICCPR and against internet shutdowns.

Enabling environment agenda: Welcomed the focus on the enabling environment and hoped its different elements would be developed more in the zero draft, including effective use of universal service funds and competition.

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Recommended the outcome be fact-based, recognise progress, and not simply restate past disputes, building on WSIS+10 and GDC language.

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Fiona Alexander (American University) noted, however, that only 15% of speakers were governments, questioning if the UN system can truly embrace shared decision-making.

Roddy McGlynn (GSMA)

Thought-provoking comments

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strong consensus

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) as an equitable model: Open-source, interoperable DPI was highlighted as a successful model for inclusive digital transformation, particularly in the global south.

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universally accepted rules for international information security on a voluntary basis within the UN framework

esolution on ” Enhancing international cooperation on capacity-building of artificial intelligence,”

on July 25, 2025, of the resolution on “The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Creating New Opportunities for Sustainable Development in Central Asia,”

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but it also avoids mentioning a future binding legal instrument, except to ‘not[e] the possibility of future elaboration of additional binding obligations’ (para. 43(e)).

‘over 100 Member States have now individually, or as a collective, published their position and views on the application of international law’.

Over the past decade, multiple States – 35 at the time of writing, according to the Cyber Law Toolkit database – have issued detailed national positions on how international law applies to cyber activities.

‘An ICT operation may constitute a use of force when its scale and effects are comparable to non-ICT operations rising to the level of a use of force.’ This is a fairly uncontentious observation.

We've listened to your feedback and made significant improvements across the board.

Apart from uranium, Namibia’s vast repository of rare earth metals makes it a focus point of great powers.

Lower temperature (close to 0) makes model output more deterministic and conservative,

Session Variables

if the threshold is set to 0.8 (out of 1.0), only highly relevant content will be adopted, but it may result in incomplete information;

Parent-Child Chunking

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Max_tokens

The higher the value, the more the model tends to use diverse vocabulary and expressions; at a value of 0, t

extracting raw data, transforming it into a format suitable for analysis, and then loading it into the target system.

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Chain of Thought (CoT)

select the ArXiv Search tool

Retrieval Test / Citation and Attributions

Next Step Question Suggestions

requiring quick, batch generation of standardized content

Chatbot Application

The file format is YML. This standard covers the basic description of the application, model parameters, orchestration configuration, and other information.

Some of the things that have been discussed in the past have reemerged,” said Ian Richards, a UN Staff Union representative in Geneva – “

He suggests that education could be a way to avoid geopolitical competition in AI development.

As states assert control over data flows, digital platforms, and taxation, the model of an open and interoperable internet risks being eclipsed by competing, state-centric visions of digital order.

As more countries erect fiscal and regulatory barriers in the name of digital sovereignty, the once-unifying dream of a borderless, interoperable internet is giving way to a fragmented digital terrain defined by jurisdictional silos and incompatible standards.

confrontation over compromise, national advantage over global consensus, and short-term leverage over long-term stability.

In February 2025, Trump’s administration escalated further, threatening to invoke Section 891 of the U.S. tax code—an obscure statute that would double corporate taxes on firms from countries taxing U.S. digital companies.

Retaliatory tariffs under Section 301 of the U.S. Trade Act were imposed on countries implementing DSTs, including France, the UK, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and Austria.

multinational digital corporations contribute fairly to local economies, especially in jurisdictions where they generate substantial revenue without a physical presence.

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Promoting Registered Apprenticeships.  

can integrate the fundamentals of AI into all subject areas

reducing time-intensive administrative tasks;

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invest in our educators

demystifies this powerful technology

using stolen U.S. technology on the back of U.S. semiconductorchips that are prohibited from sale to China without an export license

a model that covertly censors and manipulatesinformation pursuant to Chinese law

AI Foundation

European AI Champions Initiative

Industries will be able to collaborate and federate their data

CERN laboratory in Geneva

with AI Gigafactories. Very large data and computing infrastructure, to train very large models.

12 AI factories

European AI embraces the power of open source

European AI is cooperative. It brings talents together from different countries, sectors and backgrounds.

Because the AI race is far from over. Truth is, we are only at the beginning. The frontier is constantly moving. And global leadership is still up for grabs.

AI can help us boost our competitiveness, protect our security, shore up public health, and make access to knowledge and information more democratic.

And this means embracing a way of life where AI is everywhere.

We want Europe to be one of the leading AI continents

accelerat

OpenAI, Deepmind, Anthropic, Meta, and Deepseek don’t need to use a standardized neural architecture so that their AIs can talk to each other.

Overall, the Internet and AI are different technologies on different layers of the tech stack.

the nodes of a computer network

“The” Internet – singular – is a global communication network.

The Internet is a communication protocol for sending data packets between computers in a standardized way. AI is an information technology that processes inputs and creates outputs.

How can companies demonstrate a multipolar mindset on people? Here are a few practices CEOs should consider:

Geopolitics is not only personal—it’s emotional.

a culture of geopolitical resilience

using advanced technologies to anticipate and prepare for future geopolitical disruptions.

One private equity fund, for instance, identified portfolio companies in regions where profits were likely to shrink because of regional conflicts and redirected them to more stable geographies. Additionally, fund executives identified products that could be considered “dual use”—that is, products that could have both commercial and military applications—and would be especially vulnerable to cross-border trade scrutiny. They relocated the manufacturing of these products to areas that would be less exposed to dual-use regulations if those regulations were to increase in scope.

It will be critical for business leaders to monitor where this funding lands.

They are finding opportunities in three areas in particular—accelerating growth, optimizing business operations, and developing capabilities and strategies to address global disruption.

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These include tariffs, the provision of subsidies in support of national industrial policies, and governments’ bias toward investing in geopolitical allies across supply chains, talent, technology and data, capital deployment, and other business domains.

Business leaders should be asking themselves questions such as, will our competitors’ products be more or less expensive than ours because of new tariffs and taxes? When and how can we align our business with trade flows into new corridors? What new economic and security alliances could also create opportunities for us to grow or to change our cost structure? What industrial policy incentives might present significant growth potential for us? How is our risk-adjusted cost of capital changing across geographies and how might we optimize our capital deployment?

Serving as our “technologies of memory,” our grandmothers and other cultural storytellers have been responsible for preserving and passing down stories of our history and culture long before the advent of the printing press or the internet.

Many of the raw materials required for AI infrastructure, including cobalt, copper, and lithium, are sourced from areas in the Global South, including countries facing ongoing conflicts or near lands where Indigenous communities are located, adversely impacting the environment for those communities.

A key piece of the pie in creating an “age-aware internet” is age assurance. Iain Corby, director of the Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA), says 2025 is set to be a busy year in regulations, with Ofcom expected to publish this week their guidance on “highly effective age assurance.”

For your second concern, we compare HtmlRAG with chunking parctice in Langchain in our paper. We are talking about an RAG system whose knowledge source is basically in HTML format. Those fancy chunking strategies are based on the HTML-to-plain-text conversion. If information loss is mainly brought by the conversion other than the chunking strategy, different chunking strategies may have little difference.

Great suggestion👍! Actually, for each block, there are many additional features waiting to be explored, such as tag attributes, url links, and context path you have mentioned. We can probably optimize the block represention strategy in future works.

the future of social media and the relationship between American business and government.

Yes. Money is a story, a fiction—it has no objective value.

We build trust by inventing stories that many people believe.

Managers using agentic AI systems will need to pay careful attention to team selection, ensuring that they have the right combination of agentic roles carrying out the right tasks, in an efficient way.

contextual information

In fact, goal-setting becomes even more important for agentic AI, as the systems initially lack the contextual information — such as organizational and market context, company values, and so forth — that is often tacitly understood by human workers.

Ema, an AI startup based in California, offers agentic AI chatbots that can dynamically trawl thousands of different databases and apps to resolve customer queries and complaints, learning from each customer interaction and identifying recommended actions for human agents. Ema also audits its content for accuracy and compliance purposes, while also making recommendations to improve the customer knowledge base.

SciAgents — a multi-agent model developed by researchers at MIT — includes not only robot scientists to develop research plans, but a Critic Agent to review these and suggest improvements.

Because agentic models are explicitly designed to carry out very granular tasks, they enable much greater specialization of roles compared with previous broad-brush automation systems.

While agentic AI systems harness the creative abilities of generative AI models such as ChatGPT, they differ in several ways. First, they are focused on making decisions rather than on creating content. Second, they do not rely on human prompts, but rather are set to optimize particular goals or objectives, such as maximizing sales, customer satisfaction scores, or efficiency in supply-chain processes. And third, unlike generative AI, they can also carry out complex sequences of activities, independently searching databases or triggering workflows to complete activities.

In April the Trade and Technology Council, a forum for co-operation between America and Europe on economic issues, released a statement saying that democracies must remain the vanguard of emerging technologies, including by setting the standards that underpin them.

It’s 55% yes and 44% no.

The meaning of the word “squirrel” comes from its PLACE within this web of distinctions.

FORGET UNITY with a whole altogether…it is POSSIBLE to be INTERDEPENDENT with EVERYTHING around you for what you are…but NOT interdependent with EVERYTHING there possibly is.

See it’s NOT that the self is a TOTAL illusion to him. The DURABILITY of the self is an illusion…the ESSENCE at the FOUNDATION of the self is an illusion. 

ou realize the typical boundaries between YOU and the eco-systems of ideas or things that you depend on…are really just a matter of convention… or a matter of the ways that our languages typically manage to express things. 

The WAY we talk about things…USUALLY tries to say something about what things ARE…by COMPARING them to the things that they’re not— our languages STRUCTURE our reality dualistically with subjects always relating to objects. 

there is some sort of static essence or form to what a Nihilistic experience will be– and TWO…it removes the expectation that we should be able to perfectly describe ALL of this experience using purely language.

no two encounters with Nihilism are EVER going to be the same… and what you experience and CALL Nihilism… will without question be unique to your individual experiment. 

say after the fall of the Roman Empire, or the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror…

And what he’s ULTIMATELY doing here in the context of post-ww2 Japan, a time and place where the culture is facing EXTREME Nihilism after the dropping of the atomic bomb, the failure of the imperialism of early 20th century Japan…when they’re doing some SOUL searching in Japan about where to go to NEXT…Nishitani is a thinker that’s looking to OTHER cultures that have gone through something similar in the past…the HOPE being to learn from them by radically engaging with their work. 

modern society often SHIELDS people from it. 

including top oil and gas producers like Saudi Arabia and the US, acknowledged the need to phase down fossil fuels.

“With no real money on the table, and vague and unaccountable promises of funds to be mobilised, they are trying to shirk their climate finance obligations,” he added, explaining that “poor countries needed to see clear, grant-based, climate finance” which “was sorely lacking”.

of $1.3 trillion annually by 2035 was adopted

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The shift in Meta’s and Anthropic’s policies toward military uses of AI is momentous. Lately AI has become a battlefield staple in the form of weaponized drones, and AI companies must take care that their new policies are consistent with upholding human rights. Military uses for AI include not only weapons development and targeting but also potentially life-saving search and rescue, logistics, intelligence, and communications. Moreover, defense contracts represent major opportunities for AI companies that can fund widely beneficial research and applications.

Technology transfer: Developing and least developed countries (LDCs) may require technology transfer to build the capacity of local companies.

If source code is unlawfully copied, obtained, or used dishonestly for commercial gain, WTO members may pursue legal action against the offender in the courts of another member.

The source code of computer software is protected in the same way as a ‘literary work’, meaning it is under copyright protection from the moment the first line of code is created.

Fostering trust among actors is also essential

strongly encourage American tech companies to build their largest and most advanced facilities in the United States.

the weights of frontier models (the parameters that encode the core intelligence of an AI system).

Zelenskyy said in his evening address to Ukrainians.

each AI system ethical performance can be assessed from the very outset.

with hands-on

There is clearly a tendency for ideological fundamentalists to present the world as a struggle between good and evil, in which mutual understanding and pragmatism are demonized as a betrayal of sacred values. 

“We have built a foreign policy of hectoring and moralizing and lecturing countries that don’t want anything to do with it.

If the US can accept a more modest role in the international system as one among many great powers, the president elect could embrace a more moderate economic nationalism that would have a greater prospect of succeeding.

Globalization gave birth to a political class loyal to international capital without national loyalties, and accountability to the public disappeared. Globalization often contradicts democracy, and there is a growing division between illiberal democracy versus undemocratic liberalism.