Resources^ from the Rest of Us (24.07.26)
Opinions, investigations, reports & opportunities
On a personal note: This edition is delayed due to unforeseen circumstances. As it turns out, those experiences became my latest article here.
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
🌐 Tatiana Dias in Tech Policy Press | Soccer’s Tech Revolution has a Labour Chain
🌐 Lam Le in Tech Policy Press | Workers in Asia are Fighting for Protections as AI Threatens Jobs
🇬🇧 Andrew McStay in Tech Policy Press | Intimate Functionality - Phrase Defining the Next Year of AI Regulation
🇹🇼 Audrey Tang in Humanist Review | AI and democracy: the right to resist optimization - Taiwan’s cyber-ambassador Audrey Tang on why the real danger of AI isn’t that machines imitate humans, but that humans adapt to machines.
🇧🇷 🌐 Luca Belli in Tech Policy Press | Data Sovereignty Doesn’t Mean Data Isolationism
🇺🇳 Eryk Salvaggio in Tech Policy Press | How the UN’s Scientific Panel Erases Human Responsibility for AI
🇱🇧 Ahmad Ibsais in The Nation | The Genocide of South Lebanon: Israel is carrying out its Gaza strategy in yet another war.
🇨🇳 Global Times Editorial | Beyond competition: How China leads new paradigm for global AI governance
🇫🇯 Kanni Wignaraja and Munkhtuya Altangerel in Matangi Tonga | The Pacific’s stake in shaping AI’s future
🇭🇰 South China Morning Post Editorial | China’s vision for global AI governance is inclusive
Blogs / Substacks
🇮🇩 Damar Juniarto | Quo Vadis Regulasi AI, Tata Kelola AI Sebagai Solusi
🇺🇸 Katie Harbath | The 20 Forces Shaping the Midterms: My Map of the Kaleidoscopic Minefield
News
🇸🇬 The Business Times | The missing link in ASEAN’s AI economy: Trusted cross-border data flows
🇮🇳 🇪🇺 Nico Schmidt , Mayank Aggarwal, Ignacio Carrascón | European AI Firms Scale Banned Facial Recognition Systems in India
🇸🇬 Straits Times | Think-tank claiming to be S’pore-based used AI profiles to target analysts, intelligence community
🇺🇸 CNBC | OpenAI, Anthropic boost lobbying as legacy tech and defense spending slips
🇨🇳 China-Global South Project | Chinese Scholar Calls for BRICS to Shape the Future of AI
🇭🇰 The Standard | AI will not trigger employment collapse, staffing company Adecco Group says
🇨🇳 Reuters | Founder says DeepSeek prioritises AGI over profit, likely to keep top models open-source, Yicai reports
Reports
🇺🇸 Mijente, Just Futures Law, Surveillance Resistance Lab | The Tech Behind ICE: Oligarchs, Immigration Enforcement, and the Threat to Democracy
🇺🇳 UN Office for South-South Cooperation | Foresight Report: From AI Divide to AI Dividend
🌐 Tech Global Institute | Drawing the Line: Navigating the Content, Conduct and Context of Borderline Content Moderation
Government / UN / CSO Announcements
🇺🇳 UN WOMEN | AI is already rewriting reality for billions of people. It is getting women wrong.
🇺🇳 United Nations | Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI: Evidence-based assessment of opportunities, risks and impacts of AI
🇺🇳 United Nations Sustainable Development Group | ‘Technology Must Serve People, Not the Other Way Around’ - UN Secretary-General at the World AI Conference
Company Announcements
🇺🇸 Meta | Alerting Parents if Teens Show Signs of Distress in Conversations With Meta AI
🇺🇸 Meta | Breaking Ground on Meta’s First Data Center in Canada
🇺🇸 Meta | Teachers and Local Businesses Win as Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center
🇨🇳 Moonshot | Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
🇺🇸 Microsoft | Inside nonprofits using AI to extend their impact
Podcasts/Webinars
🌐 Straight Talk Southeast Asia with Prof. Thitinan Pongsudhirak | EP144: Myanmar’s Junta Normalisation with Professor Thitinan Pongsudhirak
🌐 Straight Talk Southeast Asia with Dr. Nuurrianti J. | EP143: Youth Social Media Ban Southeast Asia with Dr. Nuurrianti Jalli