India
Assorted links for 30 September 2026
Five links: a Nigerian fintech AI-evaluation framework finds standard safety tests miss local fraud risks in both directions, India pitches its digital-infrastructure experience to the Global South at the UN, the Trump administration launches an AI front door for US federal services, Code for America and Anthropic pilot Claude for SNAP caseworkers, and Rondonia's state government adapts a wildfire-physics model for an AI early-warning system in the Amazon.
Assorted links for 29 September 2026
Four links: Kenya and Anthropic sign a data-sovereignty AI framework at UNGA, Goa puts its state government portal behind a WhatsApp chatbot, a 118-student study finds generative AI's learning effect depends on how it is used, and a Brazilian legal commentary traces today's AI-governance gap to a 2017 audit of un-shared government data.
No AI safety index caught a chatbot mistranslating smallpox as syphilis
AI safety evaluation budgets concentrate in a handful of Western labs testing for model-level risks, while deployment failures in low-resource languages go untested until a user reports the harm, including a Tigrinya medical chatbot that rendered smallpox as syphilis and gonorrhea as diabetes.
Assorted links for 7 September 2026
Seven links: a European Commission expert review on AI's divides across member states, infrastructure for governing AI agents, a paediatric chest X-ray model whose sensitivity falls from 95.1 to 6.2 per cent across countries, smartphone oral cancer screening in India, AI policy priorities across Africa, a benchmark for simulating governance policy, and Nigeria's sovereign AI agenda at GITEX.
Assorted links for 5 September 2026
Nine links: safety frameworks that miss dialects and mistranslate a diagnosis, an argument about the words the field uses, a scenario for China to 2036, agent design against human oversight, what 33 parliaments say about AI and work, a New York audit, Austrian plans to automate official notices, a Colombian official on digitalised procedures, and how unevenly frontier AI exposure falls across economies.
Assorted links for 2 September 2026
Six links: six Indian digital public infrastructure systems with no forum for public participation, the IMF on cyber losses and financial stability, OpenAI pausing reinforcement learning for two weeks, where the world's data centre capacity sits, a review of 122 studies on holding language models to account, and a proposal to work out which rules apply before a system acts.
Assorted links for 31 August 2026
Nine links: what two frontier labs now book in a year, the three figures a Mexican court got when it asked three chatbots the same question, what a smaller model does when it is handed skills another model worked out, an 825 million euro fine with no AI in it.
Assorted links for 29 August 2026
Nine links: which of England's two planning AI tools is actually live, what MIT's committee found had changed on campus in under three years, an Ebola nowcast in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the first evaluation of a proprietary model by someone who never saw its weights.
Assorted links for 27 August 2026
Eleven links: what METR found inside OpenAI's agent incident, what an IMF paper puts on the table for African growth, where India sits per head rather than in total, and a Brazilian committee text that requires human supervision and authorises facial recognition in the same breath.
Vietnam's AI scoring sheet puts sixty-five of a hundred marks on doing the work
Vietnam's criteria for public-service AI platforms, in force since 19 June, mark a platform out of 100. Thirty-five marks are for compliance and sixty-five are labelled for the sector's own work. What those marks reward is not published, so the split between the two blocks is all the ministry has disclosed.
Using AI to write public comments improves every comment without closing the education gap
A survey experiment on US rulemaking found that ChatGPT made public comments easier to write and much better rated, without making people understand the rule any better. Agencies are now using the same models to read the comments.