Resources^ from the Rest of Us (24.06.26)

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. When I come across research or fellowship opportunities, I’ll tag those at the bottom.

Investigations / Expert Op-Eds

• Carlyle Thayer | East Asia Forum | Vietnam is not China in the making

• Roli Argrawal | World Economic Forum | How Asia-Pacific can turn AI innovation into sustainable economic impact

• Tristan Eng | The Diplomat | Can ASEAN’s Green Goals Survive Its Data Center Boom?

• Vivian Collins | Asia Times | Thailand’s big money bid to become ASEAN’s data center capital

• Viola Zhou | Rest of World | When Americans choose Chinese AI: Developers say DeepSeek is good enough for a fraction of the cost. “You don’t need God to write your email.”

• Hadley Spadaccini | East Asia Forum | China’s AI ambitions face a capital constraint

• Kinling Lo | Rest of World | Can open-source AI beat OpenAI

• Alexandre Queru | East Asia Forum | Washington pays the price for losing Asia’s trust

• Jalal Abukhater | Global Voices | Palestinians are being locked out of the digital economy

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

• Adam James Fenton, Chris Shannahan | Asia Times | When AI speaks in the name of God: Religious leaders everywhere are vexed by the unruly rise of godbots

Blogs / Substacks

• The Friendly Future by Iris Ng | What real AI fluency looks like: Singapore just refreshed its national AI strategy. Here is my take on what “AI bilingual talent” is, and why storytelling is another AI governance lever we should use

• Project Liberty | The interfaith effort to address the challenges of AI

• Jam Kraprayoon in The Attack Surface | Cyber Superstorms: How Powerful AI Vulnerability Discovery Capabilities Could Make Cyber Crises Routine

• Fei-Fei Li | A Functional Taxonomy of World Models

• China AI Atlas | https://ai.techbuzzchina.com/people

News

• Licas News | Thai clergy study AI ethics as Vatican calls for deeper pastoral engagement

• Al Jazeera | More than 5,300 people still held in Myanmar scam centres: rights group

• Rest of World | Chinese universities are cutting language majors to make way for AI

• Rest of World | The Great AI Divide: Navigating U.S. and Chinese dominance

• Rest of World | The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers

• South China Morning Post | Return to the top: China’s LineShine beats US El Capitan in Top500 supercomputer rankings

• CNBC | ‘No poaching’ our people, China’s AI behemoth DeepSeek reportedly tells investors

• South China Morning Post | Can Chinese silicon replace Nvidia? Here are 5 AI models trained on local chips

• South China Morning Post | US lawmakers warn next revolution in AI race must be in America, not China

Reports

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

• Amnesty International | Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI

• Amnesty International | Acceleration of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians must spur global action to halt West Bank annexation

• Forum on Information and Democracy | Background Paper on Safeguarding Access to Reliable Information in the Age of AI

• Gabriella Beackon et al in Big Data and Society Journal | Generative AI, propaganda, and digital authoritarianism: Comparative insights from six democratically weakened countries

• 7amleh | The Platformicide of Palestine

• UNDP | The Algorithm in the Courtroom: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Justice and the Rule of Law Across Asia and the Pacific

• United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health | Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land - UN Scientists: AI is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions

• Greenpeace | The energy and environmental impact of AI and how it undermines democracy

Government / UN / CSO Announcements

• Top500.org | LineShine Debuts at No. 1 as the TOP500 Enters a New Global Exascale Era

• South Korea | Financial Services Commission | FSC Holds Meeting on AX with Financial Companies and Introduces Updates to AI Guidelines in Financial Sector (18 June 2026)

• South Korea | Ministry of Science and ICT | MSIT Launches Project to Localize Core Physical AI Technologies (22 June 2026)

• Access Now | Joint State on AI in Warfare

• SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) | Statement by the Governance of AI Program at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Company Announcements

• Anthropic | Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

• Meta | Why social media bans alone can’t solve the age verification dilemma

• Meta | Infrastructure explained: compute power

• Meta | The future is for everyone: Free AI glasses for every blind veteran in America

• OpenAI | Helping build shared standards for advanced AI

• OpenAI | PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US

• OpenAI | Daybreak: Tools for securing every organisation in the world

Podcasts/Webinars/Substacks

• Trustworthy Public Systems in an Age of Rapid Change | Audrey Tang & Laura Gilbert | Fireside Chat at Govtech 4 Impact World Congress 2026