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