Exploring Digital Diplomacy

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. Meta has created a way to watermark AI-generated speech (MIT Technology Review)
2. Immersive technology, blockchain and AI are converging — and reshaping our world (World Economic Forum)
3. EU to take further action against Apple over digital market rules, Breton says (Reuters)
4. US unveils draft plan to restrict investment in Chinese technology (The Financial Times)
5. Technology has changed money-laundering (The Economist)
6. Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems (The Guardian)
7. Best summer books of 2024: Technology (The Financial Times)
8. UN chief warns of rising cybersecurity incidents and malicious use of digital technology (EuroNews)
9. How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play (MIT Technology Review)

Some Light Reading- Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire, James Wycliffe Headlam