• The recent UNECE report “Generative AI For Official Statistics. Mitigating and Monitoring Chapter“, under the High-Level Group for the Modernisation of Official Statistics, explores key mitigation and monitoring strategies for using generative AI in official statistics.
• The UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan Government Response outlines strategies for accelerating AI adoption and addressing future challenges.
• World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2025: A Bleak Outlook for the Next Decade
• OpenAI has released its Economic Blueprint, outlining strategies for AI’s positive impact on global economic growth and productivity.
• The OECD has published a report on digital public infrastructure, focusing on its role in enabling digital governments.
• The OECD’s 2024 report on Global Trends in Government Innovation highlights key developments in government modernisation efforts worldwide.
• The Oxford Insights’ 2024 Government AI Readiness Index evaluates global preparedness for AI integration in public governance.
• The Tony Blair Institute’s report on the Future of Learning emphasises tech-enabled quality education as essential for Britain’s future.
• The UK government seeks feedback on the intersection of copyright law and artificial intelligence to shape future regulations.
• The EU examines the adoption of AI and GenAI by local and regional administrations in a new report.
• The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025 report addresses emerging threats and strategies for the cybersecurity landscape.
• The World Economic Forum insight report explores the $9.8 trillion opportunity for GovTech in global public impact.
• The European Commission’s report discusses AI’s role in policymaking, stressing the need for effective governance and regulatory frameworks to ensure transparency and accountability while addressing AI’s opportunities and risks.
• The IPU’s guidelines offer recommendations for integrating AI into parliamentary work, focusing on ethics, transparency, and oversight to ensure responsible use.
• The World Economic Forum releases the Global Cooperation Barometer 2025 – Second Edition, assessing global collaborative efforts in governance.
• The World Economic Forum’s report on Agri-tech for Women Farmers presents a business case for inclusive growth in agriculture.
• The European Commission’s guide provides insights on AI’s impact on workplace dynamics.
• The Bennett Institute presents a report advocating for a domain-specific approach to creating an international AI framework.
• The Northern Ireland Cyber AI Hub evaluation report details the programme’s progress in developing cybersecurity solutions.
• The U.S. Department of Homeland Security introduces a Roles and Responsibilities Framework for AI in critical infrastructure to guide responsible implementation.
• A guide by Open Data Policy Lab offers best practices for due diligence when leveraging non-traditional data in the public interest.
• The World Economic Forum’s report on unlocking the social economy outlines steps toward equity in the green and digital transitions.

 Articles

• Databases in the Era of Memory-Centric Computing
• Sufficient Context: A New Lens on Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems
• Large Physics Models: Towards a collaborative approach with Large Language Models and Foundation Models
• Analyzing the progress of Indian states chasing sustainable development goals using complex network framework
• Leveraging explainable AI and large-scale datasets for comprehensive classification of renal histologic types
• Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks
• Reusability report: Deep learning-based analysis of images and spectroscopy data with AtomAI
• Digital governance leveraging urbanization and fintech synergies for sustainable development in BRICS
• Artificial intelligence may affect diversity: architecture and cultural context reflected through ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Google Maps
• How Easy is It to Fool Your Multimodal LLMs? An Empirical Analysis on Deceptive Prompts
• Evaluating Gender Bias Transfer between Pre-trained and Prompt-Adapted Language Models
• Powering AI in the Global South by Tony Blair Institute For Global Change

Blogs

• UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer advocates for a unique British approach to AI regulation, differing from US and EU models.
• Leviathan Meets the Singularity: This blog explores how AI challenges traditional state power, proposing new ways of governance in the age of artificial intelligence.
• UK Government’s “Opt-Out” Copyright Exception: The UK government suggests an EU-style exception to copyright laws for AI model training, which would allow for greater access to data.
• Why AI Progress Is Increasingly Invisible: This article discusses how the rapid progress of AI technology is increasingly hidden from public view, raising concerns about transparency and accountability.

• The 10th Digital Public Health Conference, set for 24-26 July, 2025, in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, invites submissions for workshops (deadline: 29 January, 2025) and papers (abstract deadline: 5 March, 2025 , full paper deadline: 12 March, 2025). For more details, visit DPH website.