On April 26th the country concluded its first-ever national reading week.

o remain unquantifiable, to exist outside the data-mining net, and to insist that a human life is more than a data point in a war-related mission.

Under this regime, transparency is a weapon used downward to discipline the proles, while opacity is a shield used upward to protect the architects of the machine.

By reintroducing a hierarchy where “vital” cultures possess the moral authority to dominate “regressive” ones, Palantir provides the digital scaffolding for a new kind of algorithmic empire.

Franz Boas

This is the ancient bargain of the totalitarian: we will feed you and keep you safe from the current “Enemy,” provided you hand over the keys to your private life and the right to remain unobserved.

The US admits that it has used these programs to select targets during its ongoing war on Iran, but insists that humans make the final decision to fire.

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it proposes aclear typology for differentiating between hallucinations and accurate legal responses.

one airline company in Canada hasalready been held liable for negligent misrepresentation basedon output produced by its AI chatbot

Ask PracticalLaw AI draws solely from articles about legal practice written byits in-house team of lawyers.

“check themselves”—which havebecome popular in other AI evaluation pipelines

Our queries are writtenspecifically for RAG-based legal research tools; each query is anopen-ended legal question that requires legal analysis supportedby relevant legal documents that the model must retrieve.

For ease of interpretation, we group our queries into four broadcategories

These errors are potentially more dangerous than fabricatinga case outright, because they are subtler and more difficult tospot.

A response is considered hallucinated ifit is either incorrect or misgrounded. In other words, if a modelmakes a false statement or falsely asserts that a source supportsa statement, that constitutes a hallucination

If the re-trieval system provides documents that are inappropriate to thejurisdiction of interest, and the model cites them in its response,we call that misgrounded, even though this might be a techni-cally “grounded” response in the computer science sense.

Agrawal et al. 2023

Groundedness

We say that a response is correct if it is both factually correctand relevant to the query.

Legal documents are generally written forother lawyers immersed in the same issue

these legal opinions arenot atomic facts; indeed, on some views, the law is an “essen-tially contested” concept

citing nonexistent case law halluci-nated by an AI service (

we manually construct a preregis-tered dataset of over 200 legal queries for identifying and under-standing vulnerabilities in legal AI tools.

Only 9% of workers trust AI for complex, business-critical decisions, compared to 61% of executives — a 52-point trust chasm.

It reflects a reluctance to equate enabling with doing, or knowledge with endorsement.

Liability requires intent.

“We convey glad tidings to the great nation of Iran that nearly all of the war’s objectives have been achieved, and your valiant sons have driven the enemy into a state of historic helplessness and enduring defeat,” the statement read.

According to Prof. Saner, the need for negotiation is part of the condition humaine. Wherever people live, conflicts are inevitable.

will hinge not just on what was copied, but on what the copying was for.

have focused primarily on data training and whether ingesting copyrighted books to build these models constitute infringement.

in legal terms, a service "tailored for" infringement or, at minimum, one that induces it.

Did the company intend for its service to be used to illegally download copyrighted music?

A central instrument of the UAE’s strategy has been port diplomacy led by Dubai-based logistics giant DP World.

to penalize AI developers for a third party’sunlawful conduct involving their models.V I I .E s t a b l i s h i n g a F e d e r a l P o l i c yF r a m e w o r k , P r e e m p t i n gC u m b e r s o m e S t a t e A I L a w s

Congress should not take any actions that would impact the judiciary’s resolution ofwhether training on copyrighted material constitutes fair use

The Norwegian Parliament’s decisions to strengthen the economic safety net during the coronavirus pandemic were rapidly formulated into statutes and regulations.

“Making a new processor is not that difficult,” said Gürkaynak. “Making the entire software ecosystem connect with the hardware is very difficult. It takes hundreds of years of combined working hours to make a laptop function.”

US heavyweights like Nvidia, Microsoft and Google sit side-by-side with Chinese giants Huawei, Tencent and Alibaba.

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Run AI locally with Ollama/LM Studio — no API keys, no data leaves your machine. Opt-in Headline Memory builds a local semantic index of every headline for RAG-powered queries

Delhi Declaration

The role of ‘middle powers’ in shaping a post-liberal global order is increasingly central to discussions on the world economy and the future of international trade rules.

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Use lightweight models (like GPT-3.5) for retrieval

tool routing

Vector search excels at finding semantically similar content, but it struggles with:

an augmented prompt. It can include multiple document chunks, metadata, and task-specific instructions

The Publishing Value Chain

security and trade

Videos circulating on social media showed people sprinting through the Guadalajara airport in panic and smoke billowing over the tourist city of Puerto Vallarta.

Especially the Baltic countries were a ‘blank’ on the Belgian diplomatic map.

There is a refreshing article on Digital Diplomacy that makes good reading on these hot summer days.  

Digital diplomacy refers to the use of digital technologies—especially the internet and social media—to conduct diplomatic activities and achieve foreign policy goals

Examples of content areas include:

Thisincludes current workers adapting to AI-enabled changes in their jobs, job seekers navigating anevolving labor market, and students preparing to enter an economy increasingly shaped by AI

to work effectivelyalongside AI tools,

he way they are applied will vary depending on the role, setting, and goal ofeach stakeholder

ome discussions of AI literacy use terms like “AI proficiency” or “AI fluency”.

when many people refer to “AI,” theyare often referring specifically to generative AI.

from older rule-basedsystems to machine learning models and computer vision tools.

DOL defines AI literacy as a foundational set of competencies that enable individuals to useand evaluate AI technologies responsibly, with a primary focus on generative AI, which isincreasingly central to the modern workplace.

Prof Jovan Kurbalija, is the Founding Director of DiploFoundation and Head of the Geneva Internet Platform.

supply chain sovereignty

We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege orprejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, orstation of birth

ideas like a post-anthropocentric view of the use of technology that highlights empathy for all sentient beings.

The model develops a sense of which sources are authoritative, which are trustworthy, and which produce high-quality information.

This is the “402 moment” for content. The web always had a status code for “payment required.” And now, there’s a push to create the infrastructure to actually use it.

a system where content access is tracked, attribution flows back to sources, and compensation follows attribution.

the economics of synthesis

The traditional web economy ran on a straightforward exchange. Publishers created content. Users visited to read it. That attention got monetized through ads or converted into transactions. Discovery drove attention, attention drove revenue.

500+ organizations that have joined the RSL Collective are trying to establish licensing frameworks precisely because the current model isn’t working.

Major publishers are reporting year-over-year traffic declines of 20% or more from search.

Google’s AI Overviews now appear on a significant percentage of searches, and when they do, click-through rates to publisher sites drop by nearly half.

Diplomatic history emerged in the nineteenth century as the study of statecraft, the conduct of foreign policy at the highest level in the state, what G.P. Gooch called 'Courts and Cabinets'.

Moreover the Reformation created a wider public throughout Europe, with strong views on how international relations ought to be conducted.

Diplomacy consists of a series of techniques for managing the relations between Governments by negotiation, by persuasion, by agreement, by submission to international law. In principle it can be distinguished from techniques of coercion:

Crimean War diplomacy gains a new reality – and a greater contemporary relevance – if the reader can sense the impact of newspapers on public opinion or see how the electric telegraph speeded communication in a narrowing world.

The agreement was that Tito would come as a guest of the government on a ‘private but official’ visit, but with some of the trappings associated with a state visit.

you can’t really blame the seed for not becoming a tree.

I have a few questions I’d like to ask you from my study on the topic “the telecommunications infrastructure “ from the course. My question is, how can telecommunications infrastructure planning be aligned with national development goals such as digital inclusion, e-gov

Emails that require the user’s personal review must stay in the inbox; examples: reader replies, media/speaking opportunities, book-related collaborations, beta-reader requests, security/account changes, and technical notifications.

According to Cora’s creators, ninety per cent of our e-mails “don’t require a response. So then why do we have to read them one by one in the order they came in?”

The A.I. bubble, in short, is more than just a bubble—it’s a collision between scientific uncertainty and evolving business thinking.

In a development known as “consumerization,” the tools used by tech-savvy employees at home—such as smartphones—became more advanced than the ones provided at work; employees, who wanted to do more, began demanding upgrades.

Copilot “seats” for its staff, it’s looking at investing many millions of dollars each year.

At my request, the systems began pointing us toward more sophisticated coding environments—Construct, GDevelop, Godot Engine, GameMaker—and suggesting more ambitious projects.

High-level launch

nclusive process

President Trump’s foreign policy is pragmatic without being “pragmatist,” realisticwithout being “realist,” principled without being “idealistic,” muscular withoutbeing “hawkish,” and restrained without being “dovish.”

Investing in emerging technologies and basic science, to ensure ourcontinued prosperity, competitive advantage, and military dominance forfuture generations.

We want to ensure that U.S. technology and U.S. standards—particularly inAI, biotech, and quantum computing—drive the world forward.

In other words, we will assert and enforce a “Trump Corollary” tothe Monroe Doctrine

a Golden Dome for the Americanhomeland

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

Faicon captures, analyzes, and transforms valuable event content into structured, searchable knowledge bases. Never let insights from conferences, panels, and presentations disappear again.

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In some cases or countries we may also ask for an ID;

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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Key consensus:

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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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Proposed by Jose Scandiucci (Brazil).

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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.

William Drake

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Arpita Kanjilal,

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

consensus

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