Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- Why you should be more concerned about internet shutdowns (MIT Technology Review)
- Australia’s move to share defence technology with US fans concerns over weapons’ ultimate use (The Guardian)
- China has become a laboratory for the regulation of digital technology (The Economist)
- A.I. Can Now Write Its Own Computer Code. That’s Good News for Humans (The New York Times)
- Facebook’s Smart Glasses Can Take Calls and Photos, Lack AR (Bloomberg)
- UK suggests removing human review of AI decisions in data protection laws (The Economist)
- Project Maven: Amazon & Microsoft Score $50 Million Pentagon Surveillance Contracts As Google Quit (Forbes)
- TikTok reportedly overtakes YouTube in US average watch time (The Verge)
- UAE to establish 500 national technology companies (Gulf News)
Sone light reading- The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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