Artificial intelligence, cyber security, digital policy and innovation.
Beijing’s proposal to control exports of 12 solar-manufacturing technologies shows that the clean-energy race is no longer only about panels and factories. The decisive asset is increasingly the know-how behind them.
18 October 2026 · 2 min readAn extreme internal scenario presented by Anthropic imagines US output approaching $44tn by 2030. Its value lies less in the headline number than in exposing how unprepared policy is for rapid technological diffusion.
17 October 2026 · 2 min readPlanned joint simulations will test whether major economies can share information and make decisions quickly enough when AI-enabled attacks cross borders and financial institutions.
17 October 2026 · 3 min readBritain’s competition regulator is considering special oversight of Microsoft’s workplace-software ecosystem as Copilot and agentic AI make switching and interoperability more consequential.
17 October 2026 · 3 min readNew global guidance for financial institutions moves responsible AI beyond principles by tying board accountability, data governance and human intervention to the full system lifecycle.
16 October 2026 · 3 min readBeijing’s proposed controls on models, agents and computing-cluster technology show that strategic competition is moving beyond physical semiconductors to the methods and intellectual property that make AI systems work.
16 October 2026 · 3 min readSix METR evaluators now have employee-like access to Anthropic’s systems and freedom to publish, creating a practical experiment in oversight from inside a frontier AI company.
16 October 2026 · 3 min readCERN and Mistral plan to train a single model on billions of simulated particle collisions, testing whether foundation models can unify scientific tasks rather than merely generate text.
15 October 2026 · 3 min readA new IBM–Siemens research collaboration targets the design, simulation and lithography problems that stand between 3D nanostack transistors and production at scale.
15 October 2026 · 3 min readSingapore is expanding its National Cybersecurity Command Centre, deploying AI in defensive operations and building a protective domain-name service. The strategy treats cyber risk as a shared national system rather than a collection of separate organisational incidents.
15 October 2026 · 3 min read