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African leaders asked the UN Security Council for a role in setting AI standards, though fewer than half of African countries have an AI policy or strategy. Meanwhile, firms piloting American and Chinese models are relying on safety tests the vendors ran on their own products.
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The $7bn Poolside deal gives Nvidia a stake and a licence for the tools behind the model. The weights download free by the end of the year for anyone already running its chips, and the UAE's two AI institutions disagree about taking them.
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Seoul is buying distribution rather than compute. The government is handing operators a donated chip grant, has set an 80 percent domestic serving floor, and hasn't published what the programme will cost - all in a country where roughly 1.8 million people pay for any AI at all.
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Reuters says the Treasury Secretary will head the first AI-safety-only talks of Trump's second term, days before the September 24 summit in Washington, which tells you which ledger compute standards are now on.
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Export controls have governed who holds a chip rather than who logs into it. A draft that could reach AI companies in September would change that. The deals already done show what offshore capacity was priced to earn.
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