• International AI Safety Report 2026, highlights global developments in AI safety and strategies for mitigating risks in advanced AI systems.

• UK AI Opportunities Action Plan: One Year On, reviews the progress of the UK’s national AI initiatives, policy updates, and sector engagement.

• OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible AI, provides guidelines for ethical AI deployment and corporate due diligence practices.

• WEF white paper explores how AI and geopolitics are reshaping telecoms, highlighting three strategic paths – modernising networks, developing AI capabilities, or partnering with governments to unlock value and leadership in the digital economy.

• USCM AI Roadmap Report 2026, outlines U.S. municipal strategies for integrating AI in city governance and public services.

• OECD Agentic AI Landscape Report, explores the conceptual foundations and ecosystem of agentic AI systems.

• Anthropic Education Report: The AI Fluency Index measures how people use AI by tracking observable behaviours in thousands of real Claude.ai conversations, showing that fluency is highest when users refine and iterate with the model and laying a baseline for how humans collaborate with AI effectively, ethically, and safely.

• Anthropic India Brief Economic Index, analyses the economic impact of AI adoption in India and emerging opportunities.

• OECD AI Observatory Index 2026, benchmarks national AI capabilities, policies, and regulatory readiness worldwide.

• This CETaS report investigates AI information threats during crises and provides recommendations to ensure AI strengthens democratic resilience rather than fueling instability.

• World Bank AI in Development Report, examines AI applications in global development and implications for policy and governance.

• Progress in Implementing the EU Coordinated Plan on AI (Volume 2), tracks the implementation of EU member state AI strategies and collaborative initiatives.

• Anthropic Measuring Agent Autonomy, explores frameworks for assessing the autonomy and decision-making capabilities of AI agents.

• OECD National Strategies for Immersive Technologies, reviews global approaches to AR/VR adoption and policy frameworks for immersive tech.

   

Articles

• “GPT as a Measurement Tool” (OpenAI Research), explores how GPT models can be deployed as general‑purpose measurement tools for complex tasks, demonstrating their potential to quantify nuanced phenomena and assess performance across varied real‑world scenarios.
• “The CitizenQuery Benchmark: A Novel Dataset and Evaluation Pipeline for Measuring LLM Performance in Citizen Query Tasks”, introduces a large benchmark of real‑world citizen questions to evaluate how well large language models provide context‑aware, accurate responses on public info tasks.
• “Synthesizing Scientific Literature with Retrieval‑Augmented Language Models”, shows that retrieval‑augmented models like OpenScholar can synthesise and cite scientific research with accuracy approaching human experts, helping automate literature review tasks at scale.
• “Rule-of-law Digital Government and CSR Governance in Digital Firms: Evidence from China”, finds that government–firm collaboration in digital governance can create a “Digital Leviathan” that undermines corporate social responsibility, while rule-of-law digital governance effectively mitigates these risks, highlighting the importance of institutional oversight and process-oriented regulation in China’s digital economy.
• “Agentic AI for Autonomous Preventive Maintenance Policy Governance”, demonstrates how Agentic AI can autonomously manage preventive maintenance policies in industrial environments, using a multi-agent framework that optimises maintenance schedules while providing explainable, transparent, and auditable decisions for stakeholders.
• “Things Fall Apart”: The Unravelling of Global Health Governance and the Imperative for Action Preserving Infectious Disease Prevention and Control”, warns that decades of progress in global health are at risk due to fragmented governance, underfunding, declining trust, and geopolitical tensions, emphasising that sustaining infectious disease prevention and control requires long-term investment, multilateral cooperation, and rebuilding public confidence in science and institutions.
• “The Adoption and Efficacy of Large Language Models in US Consumer Financial Complaints”, finds that LLM assistance significantly increases the likelihood of obtaining favourable outcomes in financial complaint resolutions by making submissions clearer and more persuasive
• Anthropic’s study, “Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice” shows AI agents are increasingly acting autonomously in real-world tasks, highlighting the need for careful oversight and monitoring.

Blogs

• A Carnegie Europe analysis finds that Europe can manage AI-driven labor market transitions by combining workforce re-skilling, policy innovation, and economic resilience planning.

• A World Economic Forum piece highlights how designing AI systems for trust, transparency, and accountability is critical as autonomous agents increasingly influence business and governance.

• This LSE Impact blog piece argues that the UK’s AI training ambitions require strategic investment beyond simple course listings to build deep expertise across sectors.

• Artificial Intelligence News reports that over 175,000 unprotected Chinese AI systems pose growing global cybersecurity risks, underscoring the need for international oversight and safeguards.

• A GovInsider analysis shows that Canada is advancing a whole-of-government AI strategy to modernize legacy systems and improve public service efficiency.

• The World Economic Forum blog post warns that quantum technologies pose emerging security risks that policymakers must address to safeguard critical infrastructure.

• A Rest of World investigation examines how global governments are regulating AI tech giants, revealing tensions between innovation, accountability, and public interest.

• The OECD highlights how the Global South can shape AI development through practical policy, local innovation, and inclusive governance frameworks.

• This blog piece reports that Ukraine is building AI-enabled government services using low-code platforms, enabling rapid experimentation and improved public service delivery.

• An LSE blog finds that AI tools can support the assessment of research environments, enhancing evaluation efficiency and fairness in higher education.

• GovInsider notes that Asia-Pacific nations can leverage AI strategies to strengthen sovereignty and strategic influence while balancing innovation and regulation.

• The World Economic Forum also notes that cybersecurity is evolving toward proactive resilience, emphasising anticipation, adaptation, and operational continuity in the digital age.

• Research Scientist, Open Source Technical Safeguards, AI Security Institute

• Director General for Emerging Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

• Agentic AI Risk Modelling and Mitigations, AI Security Institute

• Wellcome Career Development Awards, The Wellcome Trust

• Head of AI (Regulatory Policy and Supervision), Information Commissioner’s Office

• Establishing infrastructure hubs to power evidence synthesis in low- and middle-income countries, The Wellcome Trust