working together to offer mutual assistance to the victims of malicious cyber activity and other digital harms; assist partners – especially emerging economies – in deploying safe, secure, resilient, and sustainable technologies to advance their development goals; and builds strong and inclusive innovation economies that can shape our economic and technological future.

to build digital solidarity

First is “placement”, or the initial posting of the lie.

the Israeli government is split.

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“true multilateralism” where “universal security” replaced “universal values”

It has built an index of states’ power from 1960 to 2022.

It is also claimed that the IDF would be willing to risk killing 15-20 civilians in order to strike a Hamas fighter. For Hamas battalion or brigade commanders, that number rose to more than 100 civilians.

But in 2016 Heather Roff and Richard Moyes, then writing for Article 36, a non-profit focused on the issue, cautioned that a person “simply pressing a ‘fire’ button in response to indications from a computer, without cognitive clarity or awareness”, does not meaningfully qualify as “human control”.

the eu ’s directive on digital copyright was passed in 2019, when generative AI was not a thing. “There is no way the Europeans would pass [such a directive] today,” says Mr Sag.

Tennessee last month passed the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security ( ELVIS ) Act, banning unauthorised deepfakes in the state.

A number of news publishers have reached a similar conclusion

A survey of media executives in 56 countries by the Reuters Institute found that 48% expected there to be “very little” money from AI licensing deals.

Shutterstock, a photo library, has licensed its archive to both Open AI and Meta, the social-media empire that is pouring resources into AI . Reddit and Tumblr, online forums, are reportedly licensing their content to AI firms as well.

Partners so far include the Associated Press, Axel Springer (owner of Bild and Politico), Le Monde and Spain’s Prisa Media.

Outside America, the legal climate is mostly harsher for tech firms.

The lawyering is now happening.

tech firms are again seeking forgiveness rather than permission

Common Crawl,

the model learns by trial and error how tokens are normally combined.

“They have created an amazing edifice that’s built on a foundation of sand.”

AI s are trained on vast quantities of human-made work

In 2022 he proposed a framework called “Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture” ( JEPA ),

Andrej Karpathy, a researcher formerly at Open AI , explained in a recent talk that current LLM s are only capable of “system 1” thinking. In humans, this is the automatic mode of thought involved in snap decisions. In contrast, “system 2” thinking is slower, more conscious and involves iteration.

Since 2017 most AI models have used a type of neural-network architecture known as a transformer (the “ T ” in GPT ), which allowed them to establish relationships between bits of data that are far apart within a data set.

When the LLM is in its learning phase, it compares its predictions against the version of reality available in its training data. If these diverge, the algorithm makes small tweaks to each layer of the network to improve future predictions. That makes it computationally intensive and incremental.

Companies like Scale AI and Surge AI have built large networks of people to generate and annotate data, including P h D researchers solving problems in maths or biology. One executive at a leading AI startup estimates this is costing AI labs hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

Epoch AI , a research outfit, estimates the well of high-quality textual data on the public internet will run dry by 2026.

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The Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language media outlet Local Call reported recently that the Israeli army was isolating and identifying thousands of Palestinians as potential bombing targets using an AI-assisted targeting system called Lavender.

Nigerian officials are kicking off legal proceedings against Binance and two of its senior executives, accusing them of money laundering and tax evasion.

Meta’s recent decision to shut down Facebook News, which was a source of revenues for many content providers, as potentially hurting the economics of the news industry, thus lowering the quality of journalism and, by extension, undermining the political process.

TTD has rolled out an alternative open-source technology, known as Unified ID 2.0 ( UID 2), that it hopes will improve on cookies as an industry standard.

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Central Bank Digital Currency Tracker – Atlantic Council

regulatory uncertainties

With tokenization and programmable money, transactions can be executed instantly, anytime, and from anywhere.

It could significantly enhance payroll processes, providing a way to compensate people on a more ongoing or recurring basis, such as per job for gig workers or per day for salaried workers.

These assets can include securities, loans, public and private funds, hedge funds and money markets, private equity, environmental credits, real estate, commodities, ownership rights, voting rights, and content licensing.

The Internal Revenue Service has also developed guidance on digital assets, treating them as property for federal tax purposes.

130 jurisdictions globally are either launching, piloting, developing, or researching central bank digital currencies (CBDCs),

Crypto-Assets Regulation

provided comprehensive guidance for how authorities can address the macroeconomic and financial stability risks

“Supercharging the way money is used suggests new risks and benefits, and the rapid acceleration of AI could help accelerate the adoption of digital assets.”

The permissioned blockchain is designed to provide interoperability and control for powering synchronized financial markets to enable secure, controlled exchanges of data and value.

blockchain, smart contracts, and the tokenization of assets.

commercial adoption, regulation, and tokenization,

Numerous countries are setting in place regulatory frameworks

they have the potential to replace certain services that today are provided by intermediaries such as banks, stock exchanges, or brokers.

One solution would be for countries to work together, to learn from each other and create minimum global standards.

The Summit of the Future in 2024 is an opportunity to agree on multilateral solutions for a better tomorrow, strengthening global governance for both present and future genera-tions

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The more serious problem is that Iran’s and Russia’s economies are too similar to be natural trading partners. Of the top 15 categories of goods that each exports, nine are shared; ten of their 15 biggest imports are also the same.

Iranian and Russian ministers have revived negotiations to extend the International North-South Transport Corridor ( INSTC ), a 7,200km route connecting Russia to the Indian Ocean via Iran.

Last July Iran became the ninth member of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation,

In December imports of Russian crude reached 2.2m b/d, or 19% of China’s total, from 1.5m b/d two years ago. In the second half of last year, Iran’s exports to China averaged 1m b/d, a 150% rise from the same period in 2021.

Experts expect some inference to start moving from specialist graphics-processing units ( GPU s), which are Nvidia’s forte, to general-purpose central processing units ( CPU s)

Third, and most important, big tech has the greatest potential to control every layer of the stack, from chips to applications.

Hippocratic AI , has trained its model on data from exams to enter medical school, to give accurate medical advice.

Nixtla developed Time GPT , a model for financial forecasting.

to respond to queries (“inference”, in tech-speak)

Technological breakthroughs tend to elevate new tech giants.

We examined

to get a sense of which businesses are real winners in the AI boom

Asking yourself what the world will be like tomorrow means asking yourself what youwant and decide to do today.

the expression was coined to be catchy andvague, as John McCarthy, its creator, tells us.

A ban on TikTok could open the door to many of these apps being consigned to the digital dustbin.

The 30 biggest Chinese video-game makers account for 18% of the industry’s global sales outside China.

The firm that makes them, Joyy, is based in Singapore, just like TikTok.

“ AI factories”,

n 2018 the EU launched Euro HPC , a bloc-wide project to expand number-crunching capacity. The outfit is set to spend nearly €8bn ($8.7bn) between 2018 and 2027 on a dozen or so new supercomputers.

46% of Chinese get their news from short-video apps such as Douyin, the domestic form of TikTok which has about 740m active monthly users (China’s population is 1.4bn).

the Congo canyon

Just five submarine cables (including one under construction) run up Africa’s west coast between South Africa and Nigeria. Three of these were knocked offline on March 14th.

Nvidia’s AI chips, also known as graphics processor units ( GPU s) or “accelerators”, were initially designed for video games.

Since January 2023 the chipmaker’s share price has surged by almost 450%.

could be considered a Hindu. Jains and Buddhists could be. But Muslims and Christians, as adherents of “non-Indic” religions, could not be part of the Hindu nation unless they renounced their faith.

He says the mightiest Blackwell system, known pithily as GB 200 NVL 72, can train a model larger than Chat GPT using about a quarter as much electrical power as the best available processors.

Moreover, Nvidia’s larger integrated systems contain around 600,000 components, many of which come from China.

Crucially, they will rely on (mostly rented) Nvidia GPU s, further tying customers into the firm’s hardware-software ecosystem.

It believes that many businesses will soon move on from toying with Chat GPT to deploying their own gen AI s.

“accelerated-computing”,

By contrast, computinghardware has a finite throughput: if one actor is using some computing power, anotheractor cannot use that same computing power at the same time

Concentration of the AI Chip Supply Chain

The recent advances in Chinese chipmakingcapacity, such as the fabrication of a 7nm chip25for Huawei phones (Liu 2023) haveincreased concerns about the controls accelerating China’s progress towards AI chipsupply chain independence and thus diminishing U.S. capacity to control access tocompute.

The three keytechnical inputs to producing AI capabilities are data, algorithms, and compute, alsoreferred to as the “AI triad”

First, governance of computecan help increase regulatoryvisibilityinto AI capabilities and use; second, it can steerAI progress by changing theallocationof resources toward safe and beneficial usesof AI; third, it can enhanceenforcementof prohibitions against reckless or maliciousdevelopment or use.

Relative to other key inputs to AI (data andalgorithms), AI-relevant compute is a particularly effective point of intervention: it isdetectable,excludable, andquantifiable, and is produced via an extremelyconcentrated supply chain.

Project managers will not be going away, but they will need to embrace these changes and take advantage of the new technologies.

Because AI is ignorant of silos, knows no boundaries within the company, has no limits to its reading capacity or attention span, and is immune from internal politics, it can enable strategic intelligence staff — including those working in marketing intelligence, strategy, and strategic management accounting — to breach a company’s internal knowledge walls.

to real-time inference of otherwise hidden information about a company from publicly disclosed documents such as annual reports, quarterly financials, press releases, statements, and social media posts.

“Is there any statement of strategic relevance for the company XYZ in the following paragraph?

to Uncover Hidden Information

AI can become the watchful eye that spots useful insights in the field of competitive intelligence.

growing problem of information overload regarding markets and competitors,

AI is great at identifying patterns and providing predictions for well-formulated problems, but it fails to practice emotional intelligence and exercise moral or ethical judgment.

to balance privacy with security, trust with safety, helpfulness with respect for others’ autonomy, and, of course, values with short-term financial metrics.

Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, proposed a similar idea in a seminal 1960 Science article, launching an entire academic discipline focused on ensuring that automated tools incorporate the values of their creators.

Overanalyzing

Rumination is best described as a mental loop where you dwell on past events, particularly negative or distressing ones.

Teams in the experimental groups could use ChatGPT during both ideation phases, and they were encouraged to train the tool on the problem by inputting material from the information sheets.

problem–centric, people–first, and principle–driven.

The snail’s pace of research and publishing is badly suited to Silicon Valley’s speed.

is both an insider and an outsider.

Qatar and the UAE increased

Western diplomacy must seek to counter Russian disinformation across the global south.

If the West tried to use secondary sanctions to force the world to comply, it would backfire, leading some countries to abandon the American-led financial system.

Russia’s economy has been re-engineered. Oil exports bypass sanctions and are shipped to the global south. Western brands from bmw to h&m have been replaced with Chinese and local substitutes. In textbooks and the media a seductive narrative of nationalism and Russian victimhood is promulgated.

Christopher Myers of Johns Hopkins University is a fan of informal storytelling as a way of passing on tacit knowledge.

Working alongside experienced colleagues is the best way to transfer tacit knowledge but it is not always possible.

Startups and corporations are already designing software to make it easy to switch between Open AI ’s current top model, GPT -4, and alternatives.

In January America’s Federal Trade Commission launched an antitrust probe into Open AI ’s deal with Microsoft. Regulators in Britain and the EU are considering similar moves.

If the probability distribution of the words is flat, ie many words have similar likelihoods of being chosen, this means that there is less certainty as to which is most likely.

One solution is retrieval augmented generation ( RAG ), which splits the job of the AI model into two parts: retrieval and generation

This is a later stage of training in which the model’s weights, which encode statistical relationships between the words and phrases in the training data, are updated for a specific task

he fundamental problem is that language models are probabilistic, while truth is not.

Many countries are more than happy to play both sides—receiving Chinese investment and intermediate goods, and exporting finished products to America.

On February 20th Silo AI , a Finnish firm, unveiled a new LLM that is even more open than Mistral’s, furnishing information about the data on which it is trained and the software that did the job.

to divulge its data recipe

This places them among the 100 or so people worldwide who really know how to train cutting-edge models.

“It’s no longer about being bigger—it’s about being creative and being fast,”

in establishing an internal “data and analytics culture”, which plenty of businesses find stubbornly difficult to nurture.

three big categories: window-dressing, tools for workers with low to middling skills, and those for a firm’s most valuable employees.

more than 300 AI use cases in production today”

n February only about 5% of American firms of all sizes said they used AI . A further 7% of firms plan to adopt it within six months (see chart).

According to a recent survey from the Boston Consulting Group ( BCG ), a majority of executives said it will take at least two years to “move beyond the hype” around AI .

The spread of the typewriter put some workers out of a job: “With the aid of this little machine an operator can accomplish more correspondence in a day than half a dozen clerks can with the pen, and do better work,” said an observer in 1888.

The Global AI Index is underpinned by 111 indicators, collected from 28 different public and private data sources, and 62 governments. These are split across seven sub-pillars: Talent, Infrastructure, Operating Environment, Research, Development, Government Strategy and Commercial.

However, in our research, we found 35 countries who have made any significant stride in GenAI ever.

TikTok has also injected welcome competition into the social-media market. Six of last year’s ten most-downloaded apps came from Meta, Facebook’s owner. TikTok, which beat them to the top spot, has brought in a wave of innovation. Consumers everywhere are the winners.

True, it hoovers up users’ data. But there is no evidence that it takes more than it claims (or indeed more than rivals such as Facebook).

if ministers took all the advice offered on the National Tutoring Service, accepted it fully, and then it failed, the blame would rest firmly on the civil servants offering that advice.

Political impartiality has been a key principle of the civil service since the famous Northcote-Trevelyan report of 1854, the foundation document for the way civil servants should be appointed and should operate once in post.

Explainable AI

“tea” and “sea” would be farther apart because they have dissimilar meanings and are not used together often, even though they have similar spelling.

Types of vector embeddings

Read the texts themselves: Seneca, Caesar, or Marcus Aurelius, when possible.

By that text, titled “Promotion of inclusive and effective international tax cooperation at the United Nations” (document A/C.2/78/L.18/Rev.1), the Assembly would stress that efforts in international tax cooperation should be universal in approach and scope and fully consider the different needs and capacities of all States, in particular developing countries and countries in special situations.  The Committee approved it by a recorded vote of 125 in favour to 48 against, with 9 abstentions (Armenia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Iceland, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Türkiye, United Arab Emirates).

Following the UN Secretary-General’s report earlier this year highlighting the exclusionary nature of the OECD’s tax work, however, we now see a most welcome formal challenge.

by despite the tendency for multi-stakeholder processes to water things down”

a free Assistant in ChatGPT called AI Diagrams.