Seeing what I’ve seen in china, this is no surprise to me. The geopolitical landscape has shifted. High technology now comes from china. And it’s hitting especially Europe heavily
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NHS Data Platform Scrapping: A Critical Policy Analysis
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Another dumb idea in a long series of dumb ideas. Like, oh, I dunno, scrapping the nuclear deterrent. Here is why scrapping the NHS data platform is a fundamentally terrible idea, even if it lets politicians like Zack Polanski look like ‘heroes’ on social media. 1/ The NHS
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U.S. Government Unprepared for World Models AI Technology
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The U.S. wasn't ready for ChatGPT. Are we repeating the mistakes with world models? “Policymakers, government officials — many of them don’t even know what a world model is.” @StanfordHAI Executive Director @russellwald said on @politico
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AI adoption spreads rapidly across all competitive domains
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AI will spread faster than you might think, because once one side in any interaction starts using it, the other has no choice but to follow suit. This is true in markets, society, politics, war – everything.
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LLMs Enable Parallel Construction in Intelligence and Law Enforcement
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I’ve sometimes heard this referred to as “parallel construction” in an intelligence or law enforcement context. LLMs are presently a parallel construction goldmine. Whether that is for good or for ill, well, one of many things we’ll have to adjust to quickly.
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SR 26-2 Shifts AI Governance Burden to Institutions
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SR 26-2 just replaced SR 11-7 – and handed the burden of proof to every institution. No checklist. Just evidence. In his recent blog, Nick Goble breaks down 5 moves to convert AI governance judgment calls into computation:
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CEO discusses new diplomacy of AI chip wars at Web Summit
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Our CEO @RodrigoLiang will be at @WebSummit Vancouver where he'll be diving into the new diplomacy of the AI chip landscape.
— SambaNova (@SambaNovaAI) 22 avril 2026
Don’t miss it 🦾
🗓️ May 13 | 2:00 – 2:20 PMhttps://t.co/Nfcmps4DFt pic.twitter.com/1qduQN4lIxOur CEO @RodrigoLiang will be at @WebSummit Vancouver where he'll be diving into the new diplomacy of the AI chip landscape. Don’t miss it May 13 | 2:00 – 2:20 PM https://
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LLM Opus 4.7 Successfully Surveys AML KYC Law Enforcement Guidelines
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An anecdote for you from LLM land: I sent Opus 4.7 out to do a literature survey of various government law enforcement internal guidelines w/r/t AML and KYC usage in prosecutions. It was much more successful at finding these docs than I would have expected. I then told it:
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AI Security Threats and Defense Strategies with Expert Insights
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Talking with a real hacker will freak you out.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 22 avril 2026
Thanks @theonejvo for freaking me out about how AI could be used to attack everything in our modern society.
And what we can do about it. pic.twitter.com/0znpRiZ0tzTalking with a real hacker will freak you out. Thanks @theonejvo for freaking me out about how AI could be used to attack everything in our modern society. And what we can do about it.
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Data Center Expansion and Chip Production Amid Global Tensions
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The Manhattan Project is a joke compared to the expansion of data centers. Let's hope that chip production continues despite the war in Iran.