Beijing Alliances and New York Rulebooks Automate Statecraft
July 20, 2026
China’s WAICO alliance and New York’s algorithmic audit of state regulations signal a shift where executive power is increasingly mediated through proprietary model architectures rather than traditional legislative debate. While Russian security services and Meta struggle with the failures of automated media monitoring and consent-blind moderation, the emergence of 'context bombing' and classroom-led AI literacy suggests a growing tactical resistance to top-down algorithmic enforcement.
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China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
China's leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases suggest America's lead at the AI frontier is increasingly tight,…
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China’s Xi Jinping launches new AI alliance: What is it?
Beijing is likely to use the WAICO alliance to influence global AI regulations, analysts say.
- geopolitics
- structural power
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Russian Security Service Planned AI Tool to Track Media
Leaked documents show that Russia’s security service planned to merge media monitoring with closed databases in an AI assistant for its officers. The contractor later failed to deliver a working system.
- structural power
- geopolitics
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The problem AI content moderation cannot solve
Meta and other big tech companies are increasingly using AI for content moderation, but as the backlash to Muse Image shows, it cannot protect users because it does not account for consent.
- AI governance
- media and technology
- geopolitics
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Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster
The company endorsed landmark AI transparency laws in California and New York last year, but its head of US state and local policy says they may already be outdated.
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New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state
New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using "AI to analyze every single rule, regulation, [and] po…
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Critical thinking has become an AI-era buzzword. But what does it actually mean, and how do we teach it?
MalikNalik/Shutterstock Spend enough time in discussions about education and artificial intelligence (AI), and critical thinking will inevitably pop up sooner rather than later. AI is changing how students learn and how educators assess learning, and in the face of this shift, critical thinking is o…
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Stop policing AI in the classroom, start teaching it
When handheld calculators entered classrooms in the 1970s, critics sounded the alarm on a wave of math illiteracy. With the internet, the panic shifted to the death of reading. Yet, neither apocalypse happened. Instead, education adapted, turning these disruptors into essential extensions of human i…
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Banning AI Models Doesn’t Add Up to a Policy
What is needed is an actionable agenda that ensures safe release and stable access.
- geopolitics
- structural power
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Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents
“Context bombing” tricks malicious AI agents into shutting down before they can do harm.