Analysis ✳
Hacking abroad, financing for sanctioned Russians and new exit bans mark China's busy week
Five stories about China this week form one pattern.
#artificial intelligence
World ✳
Taiwan Says AI-Powered Hacking Campaign Hit Its Government Systems
Taiwan says a hacking campaign linked to a foreign government hit its computer systems last month, and that the attackers used artificial intelligence tools to carry it out.
Analysis ✳
AI race with China is already shaping nuclear command and policing
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned this week that the US could lose the AI race to China.
Analysis ✳
The Governance Gap: Why AI Is Becoming the Master Variable of Global Power
CFR's survey of foreign-policy experts puts the odds of coherent global AI governance at a median 29 out of 100. Meanwhile nation-state hackers are already folding generative models into every stage of the intrusion lifecycle, and Taiwan is racing to build an AI defense it cannot yet fund. Three threads, one convergence.
New EU law makes AI label its chatbots, images and videos
From Sunday, a European Union law called the AI Act requires companies to say clearly when a chatbot, image or video was made or altered by artificial intelligence.
Analysis ✳
Beyond the lock: the technology contest shifts to rules, data and the global South
The technology contest is moving from locks to rules — AI standards, data and industrial inputs — and Kenya, Mexico and the wider global South are where it is being decided.
Analysis ✳
The Great Powers Are Giving Up on Locks
For fifty years, powerful states kept dangerous technology behind a lock and rationed access as leverage. This week showed that reflex failing on three fronts at once — and what is replacing it.
Czechia ✳
AI Recorder Found in Czech Cabinet Room — and Sat in a Drawer for Weeks
A smart, AI-capable recording device was discovered in the Czech government's own meeting room at Strakova Academy — and stayed unreported in a drawer for weeks, with neither police nor intelligence services informed.