Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- Inside the powerful Peter Thiel network that anointed JD Vance (The Washington Post)
- China Is Closing the A.I. Gap With the United States (The New York Times)
- OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’ (Reuters)
- Social robot or digital avatar, users interact with this AI technology as if it’s real (The Conversation)
- Why does AI pose a huge energy supply problem? (Al Jazeera)
- How technology can strengthen democracy—an interview with Audrey Tang (The Economist)
- AI that Feeds on Garbage Spews Garbage (MIT Technology Review)
- Shares drop in US and Asia as AI stocks slide (BBC News)
- The Illicit Flow of Technology to Russia Goes Through This Hong Kong Address (The New York Times)
Some light reading- Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, by V.I. Lenin