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The Gulf's AI Patchwork
Six states, nine data-protection rulebooks, six transfer regimes and not one binding AI law. The Gulf’s fragmentation, counted rather than asserted.
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The Deployment Gap: Why AI Dies in Production
Most AI deployments fail, and the model is rarely the reason. The evidence from government and enterprise, why systems die in production, and a checklist for ministers and boards.
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Who Decides What Counts as Trustworthy?
The UK wants to rank “trustworthy” news above the algorithmic noise. The goal is right and the instrument is wrong: certify the claim, not the masthead.
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Response to the UK Media Green Paper
The Institute’s response to DCMS’s “Watch this Space” consultation: eight recommendations for a regime that verifies claims rather than licensing publishers.
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The Agent Is Nobody. You Are Not.
Agents are entering production faster than the permissions, audit trails and liability answers that make delegation defensible.
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Sovereign AI Is Being Bought, Not Built
Governments are buying sovereign AI as theatre: racks, ribbons, benchmark scores. Sovereignty is actually built from data pipelines, talent and deployment capacity.
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Edge AI and the physical infrastructure of intelligence: why the constraint on national AI ambition is increasingly measured in megawatts and metres of fibre, not model weights.
GCC AI Regulatory Tracker · Q4 update
The quarterly refresh of the tracker: every regime re-checked against primary sources, with a change log of what moved and what it signals.
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