A developer in Melbourne wakes up to find her AI agent returning 403 on every call. A US government directive killed the model overnight. Her data never left Australia. The model that reasoned over it was American. That was the only fact that mattered.
$2.5 trillion in AI spending this year. The world’s first trillionaire. And the governance frameworks meant to guide this? Principles documents that nobody is obliged to follow. Research on 500-year-old monasteries reveals the mechanism that actually works.
The Vatican brought together 50 experts for a serious AI governance summit. What they offer that Silicon Valley lacks: institutional memory. They think in centuries, not quarters.
Deloitte used GPT-4o to write a AU$440K government report with fabricated citations and fake court quotes. The AI worked fine. The failure was human — and architectural.
The EU's €1 billion Apply AI Strategy is surprisingly pragmatic. A big win for specialisation over scale — and a blueprint worth reading if you're building in this space.
Switzerland launched Apertus — a 70B parameter open model built as public infrastructure. It's the most comprehensive approach to AI sovereignty I've seen, and a template for other nations.
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