Resources^ from the Rest of Us (08.07.26)

Opinions, investigations, reports & opportunities

Hey everyone! Resources^ from the Rest of US posts highlight some of the things I’m reading — including expert opinions from folks in my region, investigations and reports. I also include things that impact us and our communities.

Investigations / Expert Op-Eds

• 🇹🇭 Janjira Sombatpoonsiri | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Inside the Swap Mart: How Thailand’s Domestic Digital Repression Enables Transnational Repression

• 🇵🇸 Jeff Sparrow | The Conversation | Friday essay: How to Sell a Genocide exposes the double standards of reporting on Gaza

• 🇮🇩 Hanif Abdul Halim | The Jakarta Post | Indonesia’s largest AI experiment barely has safety net

• 🇨🇳 Wang Zheng | ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute | Beijing’s AI Governance Approach and Its Outreach to Southeast Asia

• 🇨🇳 Kelly Forbes, Cass Maughan of AI Asia Pacific Institute | East Asia Forum | ASEAN must strike a balanced AI relationship with China

Blogs / Substacks

• 🇹🇼 Project Liberty | Audrey Tang | Till Data Soil, Don’t Drill Data Oil

• 🇹🇼 Audrey Tang | Tending Europe’s Tech Tree of Tomorrow — Together! (speech at launch of Arq Foundation)

• Governing Transformative AI | Defining Extreme AI-driven Power Concentration

• AI as Normal Technology | Could AI slow science?

• 🇺🇸 Dario Amodei | Policy on the AI Exponential

News

• 🇵🇭 🇻🇳 The Straits Times | Vietnam, Philippines raised to World Bank’s upper-middle-income status

• 🇭🇰 RSF | Exiled Hong Kong journalists launch Pulse HK to fill void left by Apple Daily’s shutdown five years on

• 🇲🇲 Al Jazeera | More than 5,300 people still held in Myanmar scam centres: rights group: Those trapped in the compounds include Chinese, Philippine, Taiwanese, Malaysian and Brazilian nationals.

• 🇹🇭 Thai Examiner | Thailand Digital Economy minister presses ahead with AI law even with warnings of adverse investment reaction

• 🇺🇳 UN News | Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving faster than governments can keep up: preliminary report by the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence

• 🇹🇭 Khoa Sod English | Thailand Unveils Global Debut of “Shield” Technology to Fight Scam and Trafficking

• 🇨🇳 Caixin Global | Alibaba Bans Staff From Using Anthropic AI Tools Over Security Concerns

• 🇨🇳 People’s Daily | China to promote forging of widely-accepted global AI governance system: vice president

• 🇨🇳 South China Morning Post | The white paper making China’s case for new rules for the world’s new frontiers

• 🇨🇳 Japan Times | China’s DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say

• 🇨🇳 Tech Times | China AI Companion Law Arrives July 15: Doubao and Qwen Agent Data Will Be Deleted

• 🇨🇳 South China Morning Post | China weighs open-weight AI’s security risks against national tech innovation strategy: researchers

• ༄༅།།བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་དར་།། The Guardian | Tibetan man dies after setting himself on fire outside UN in New York, activists say: Exiled Tibetans say the man’s self-immolation was an appeal for Tibetan independence from China

• 🇺🇳 MSN | UN launches AI for Good commission to bridge global policy gaps

Reports

• Tim Davies, Octavia Field Reid, Susan Oman and Rich Wilson | A Citizens’ Track on AI Governance: Agency, Alignment and Accountability

• 🇺🇳 United Nations AI Governance for Humanity Lab | Toward Interoperability and Inclusive Participation in AI Governance

• PSG Consulting, Innovating for the Public Good, DSG | AI Large Language Model Training: The Potential Risks of Ideological Skewing

• 🇺🇳 Independent International Scientific Panel on AI | Preliminary Report

• National Bureau of Asian Research | The Indo-Pacific as the Epicenter of AI Risk

  🇲🇾 Article 19, the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ), Sinar Project | Malaysia: Cybercrimes Bill 2026 is a threat to free expression and privacy

Government / UN / CSO Announcements

• 🇳🇱 The Netherlands | Dutch Government Launches International AI Strategy (link to strategy)

• GenderIT.org | Feminist Guiding Principles and Commitments for Global AI Governance

• 🇻🇳 Forum Asia | Joint Statement on Viet Nam’s Transnational Repression in Thailand

• Global South Alliance | What Southern Civil Society Wants from AI Governance

• 🇺🇸 CDT Center for Democracy and Technology | CDT and Allies Across Political Spectrum Condemn Trump Administration’s Continued Blocking of Anthropic AI Models

• 🇨🇳 China | 人工智能拟人化互动服务管理暂行办法 Interim Measures for the Administration of Humanized Interactive Services Based on Artificial Intelligence

• ASEAN | ASEAN and the U.S. convened the AI Ministerial to Deepen Cooperation on AI Development and Governance

• 🇰🇷 National Human Rights Commission of Korea | [Statement] Human Dignity Beyond Borders: Upholding the Rights of Long-Term Asylum Seekers at Ports of Entry

• 🇲🇾 Article 19, The Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4 Center), Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) and 58 CSOs | Malaysia: Commit to a rights-focused Freedom of Information framework

• 🇨🇳 Article 19 | China: Respect academic freedom, release Myanmar researcher U Min Zin

• ༄༅།།བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་དར་།། Amnesty International | Self-immolation of Tibetan man outside UN highlights long-standing Chinese repression

• 🇨🇳 Amnesty International | China: New ‘ethnic unity’ law set to entrench assimilation of minority groups

• 🇺🇳 ITU | Global leaders launch AI for Good Global Commission to expand access, strengthen trust and accelerate impact: Initiative brings together leaders from government, business and international organizations to advance practical pathways to unlocking AI’s potential

Company Announcements

• 🇺🇳 Salesforce | Global leaders launch AI for Good Global Commission to expand access, strengthen trust and accelerate impact

Podcasts/Webinars/Substacks

• 🇵🇸 The +972 Podcast with guest Eyal Weizman | Why ‘ungrounding’ is the defining feature Israel’s genocide

• 🇺🇳 Manushya Foundation | Webinar Highlights: How the UN Cybercrime Treaty is Advancing Transnational Repression in Southeast Asia