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Weekly #241 Australia’s social media ban: Making it work

Plus, Australia’s National AI Plan, Uzbekistan’s ‘5 million AI leaders’ project, Belgium’s ban of DeepSeek on government devices, the world’s first national standard for accessible and equitable AI adopted in Canada, revision 2 of the WSIS+20 outcome document released, launch of the UN Digital Cooperation Portal, last week in Geneva, and what’s ahead. (See more)

Weekly #240 Code meets climate: AI and digital at COP30

Plus, updates on AI governance from this week, new measures to children from online harms in the EU, Australia and Malaysia, G20's digital priorities, and the newest in the ongoing Nexperia saga. (See more)

Weekly #239 Digital draught: When the cloud goes offline

Cloudflare’s outage exposes cloud fragility as Brussels eyes gatekeepers. Plus: EU Digital Omnibus on AI/GDPR, Singapore’s AI sandbox, India’s DPDP, ETRS plan, Africa’s Cotonou 2030 goals. (See more)

Weekly #238 Strengthening democracy in the digital age: The EU’s New ‘Democracy Shield’

Plus, highlights from the WSIS+20 Rev 1 document, the EU’s revised Chat Control proposal, an EU-UK-Australia alliance on protecting children online, NYT vs OpenAI, and a look at the week ahead. (See more)

Weekly #237 A rare-earth pause in a long geopolitical game

Plus, Nvidia and Nexperia face issues, Xi calls for a global AI body, Denmark drops Chat Control proposal, states press for extension of digital‑trade tariff moratorium at WTO, and UNESCO adopts the first global ethical framework for neurotechnology. (See more)

Weekly #236 Promise and peril: The world signs on to the UN’s new cybercrime treaty in Hanoi

Plus, regulators close in on Big Tech, Washington redraws tech alliances with Tokyo, Seoul, and Beijing, Europe tightens grip as Nexperia cuts off Chinese plant, Microsoft Azure outage underlines global cloud vulnerability. (See more)

Weekly #235 Beyond the blip: What the AWS outage reveals about cloud resilience

Plus, global attention intensifies on protecting children online; the debut of AI browsers reshapes search and content; F5 breach, US-China cyber clash over China’s time service, and NSO blocked from WhatsApp; Updates from Geneva and a look at the week ahead. (See more)

Weekly #234 EU moves on kids’ social media: Verify, don’t ban

Geneva Peace Week 2025, GESDA 2025 Summit, WSIS+20 review process, Chips and sovereignty: controls tighten while orders surge, New guardrails: from California chatbots to EU–OpenAI talks, AI infrastructure goes global: public–private builds accelerate, Frontier science: a teleportation step that matters. (See more)

Weekly #233 New rules for the digital playground

UNGA80 turns the spotlight on digital issues and AI governance, Chips and sovereignty: the shift from globalisation to guarded autonomy, From code to court: xAI sues OpenAI and Apple. (See more)

Weekly #232 The rise of AI slop: When social media turns more artificial

UNGA80 turns the spotlight on digital issues and AI governance, Chips and sovereignty: the shift from globalisation to guarded autonomy, From code to court: xAI sues OpenAI and Apple. (See more)

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