Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- Meta has created a way to watermark AI-generated speech (MIT Technology Review)
- Immersive technology, blockchain and AI are converging — and reshaping our world (World Economic Forum)
- EU to take further action against Apple over digital market rules, Breton says (Reuters)
- US unveils draft plan to restrict investment in Chinese technology (The Financial Times)
- Technology has changed money-laundering (The Economist)
- Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems (The Guardian)
- Best summer books of 2024: Technology (The Financial Times)
- UN chief warns of rising cybersecurity incidents and malicious use of digital technology (EuroNews)
- 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
