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Has the IGF lost the Plot?

The UN Internet Governance Forum will be held June 22-27 in Olso, Norway. The Program Committee for the conference, known as the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), released its selection of workshops for the 2025 IGF. The number of workshops was…

Unpacking US-China “Decoupling” in AI

This is a guest blog from two University of Manchester (UK) doctoral students involved in researching the causal mechanisms linking policy interventions to decoupling outcomes, with implications for innovation ecosystems and global governance. Earlier this year, the release of DeepSeek—an…

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“Indigenous” Web Browsers in India: Who Benefits?

Across all three terms, the Modi government has tried to position India as a global technology hub. The state’s strategy involves pursuing self-reliance or “Atma Nirbharta.”  The self-reliance strategy is being taken forward through a two-pronged approach — reducing the…

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A Review of the Draft Report of the California Working Group on AI Frontier Models

In September 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom asked prominent researchers at Stanford, UC Berkeley and the Carnegie Endowment to prepare a report to help the State develop responsible guardrails for the deployment of Generative AI. Gov. Newsom’s action followed in the…

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OpenAI’s manifesto: Neo-mercantilism Enters Global AI Governance

It was probably inevitable, given the current world situation. In a filing with the US Office of Science and Technology Policy for the Trump administration’s “AI Action Plan,” OpenAI played the geopolitical card, urging the U.S. government to ban its…

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Digital Sovereignty and the Open Internet: Can they Coexist?

On April 4, 2025 the Internet Governance Project (IGP) in collaboration with the Quello Center will gather scholars of differing views to debate what digital sovereignty means, how it is being used as a label, and whether the various interpretations…

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DeepSeek Says “Xi Jinping is a Dictator”

In last week’s blog post, The Frontier Illusion: Rethinking DeepSeek’s AI Threat, I discussed Cisco’s safety test on DeepSeek R1, which revealed the model’s inability to filter out socially unacceptable content, including cybercrime, harassment (bullying), chemical and biological weapons, and…

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AI in Threat Intelligence Newsletters: Faster creation, bigger impact

Threat IntelligenceAI in Threat Intelligence Newsletters: Faster creation, bigger impactAnalyze and personalize threat intel faster with help from AI.15-Second summaryCreating threat intel newsletters involves more than collecting relevant information. You need to summarize key concepts, extract TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and…

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India’s Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development

The Internet Governance Project (IGP) filed these comments on the report of the Subcommittee on ‘AI Governance and Guidelines Development’ constituted by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). General comments on the subcommittee’s report  The term AI should…

The Frontier Illusion: Rethinking DeepSeek’s AI Threat

The Frontier Illusion: Rethinking DeepSeek’s AI Threat Following the release of DeepSeek-V3 on December 26, 2024, Western nations, led by the United States, have found themselves caught between astonishment at China’s AI advancement and deep concerns over potential threats to…