Who Controls AI? Audrey Tang on Democratic AI Governance
Topics: AI, Global Governance, Interview, Enterprise AI, Startups, World Summit AI, Sovereign AI, InspiredMinds! Community Hub, Agentic AI Infrastructure, Pathfounders, Rent AI
Multilingual AI's Longitude Problem: Why Scale Isn't Enough
Multilingual AI has a longitude problem. For centuries, sailors could fix their latitude from the stars, but not their longitude, until a Yorkshire clockmaker built a timepiece precise enough to survive the ocean. Marzieh Fadaee, Head of Cohere Labs, has described her own research in almost identical terms: she is "exploring the longitude problem of AI" (X), the puzzle of giving language models a genuine sense of place when nearly everything about how they are built, measured and rewarded still points due English.
Topics: AI, Global Governance, Interview, Enterprise AI, Startups, World Summit AI, Sovereign AI, InspiredMinds! Community Hub, Agentic AI Infrastructure, Pathfounders, Rent AI
Renting vs. Owning Intelligence: The AI Inference Cost Reckoning
In April 2026, Uber's engineering leadership discovered that a five-thousand-person team had burned through the company's entire annual AI budget in four months. Per-engineer token costs were running $500 to $2,000 a month, usage had doubled in eight weeks, and the company's COO admitted the surge in spend wasn't translating into proportionally better products (Forbes,Reuters). Uber was not an outlier. The FinOps Foundation's 2026 State of FinOps report found that 73% of enterprises exceeded their original AI cost projections this year, even as the price of a single token kept falling (TechCrunch).
That paradox, cheaper tokens and bigger bills, is exactly the terrain Meryem Arik has spent the last several years mapping. Meryem is Co-founder and CEO of Doubleword, a London-based inference platform that helps enterprises self-host open source and custom AI models (Doubleword), and she was recently interviewed by our Chief Editor, Fawn Hudgens, to talk through what she calls the "hot open weight summer": a moment when cost pressure and a jolt of geopolitical risk are forcing enterprise leaders to rethink how they buy intelligence, not just which model they buy.
Topics: AI, Global Governance, Interview, Enterprise AI, Startups, World Summit AI, Sovereign AI, InspiredMinds! Community Hub, Agentic AI Infrastructure, Pathfounders, Rent AI
Europe's Real AI Sovereignty Playbook: Why Behind Is the Wrong Story
On 30 July 2026, the European Commission opened a call to build up to seven AI Gigafactories, pairing €10 billion in public funding with an ambition to mobilise at least €20 billion in private investment. It is Brussels’ largest infrastructure push yet—and a reminder of how far Europe still has to go to secure the compute, cloud capacity and strategic options that advanced AI requires. European Commission | Reuters
Topics: Global Governance, Interview, Enterprise AI, World Summit AI, AI leadership, Sovereign AI, InspiredMinds! Community Hub, Agentic AI Infrastructure, Europe, Europe AI
Who really Controls AI? with Audrey Tang - Taiwan's cyber ambassador
Topics: Global Governance, Interview, Enterprise AI, World Summit AI, AI leadership, Sovereign AI, InspiredMinds! Community Hub, Agentic AI Infrastructure, AI Automation, speaker, Speaker Interview
Three governance considerations to unlock the potential of AI
While regulators and legal experts are getting into the bigger accountability questions around artificial intelligence, such as who is liable if an autonomous vehicle crashes, formal governance to guide decision-making is largely lacking for everyday business application. The urgency around this is increasing: AI is being widely used across functions ranging from marketing to customer service, and ambitions for it are soaring as organisations witness its potential.
Topics: AI, Global Governance, Strategy, Cyber Security
AI & Global Governance: No One Should Trust AI
By Dr Joanna Bryson
No one should trust Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Trust is a relationship between peers in which the trusting party, while not knowing for certain what the trusted party will do, believes any promises being made. AI is a set of system development techniques that allow machines to compute actions or knowledge from a set of data. Only other software development techniques can be peers with AI, and since these do not “trust”, no one actually can trust AI.
Topics: Global Governance
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