The Guardian — 06/09/2026

I generally agree with the author's optimistic take on AI. However, the author briefly mentions some of the problems the Internet brought with it, but does not consider that many of them (such as the loss of privacy or the role of social media in mis- and disinformation) originate from an originally democratising technology slowly getting undermined by the economic interests of a few select companies. With AI we are starting from this position from the get-go. If this is supposed to be a positive technology for future generations we urgently need to democratise both the access to it and the control over in which direction it will be developed.

Le Conseil fédéral suisse — 02/09/2026

Cela me réjouit que la Confédération suisse ait décidé de poursuivre le programme BOSS pour passer de la théorie à la pratique. BOSS était un projet visant à évaluer la possibilité d'utiliser une alternative à Microsoft Office. La Confédération souhaite désormais tester ce système en conditions réelles et disposer de 3 000 postes de travail configurés avec OpenDesk d'ici fin 2027. Je suis très content que la Confédération passe aux actes concrets, et j'ai déjà hâte de voir les résultats.

The Wall Street Journal — 28/08/2026

South Korea's decision to treat AI as public infrastructure, funded by the state, built on domestic operators, and explicitly designed to prevent both an AI literacy divide and dependency on foreign platforms, is the most serious government AI commitment to date. The contrast with Malta says everything: one country bankrolled ChatGPT Plus and called it leadership; the other built something it will still own when the subscription expires. One of these decisions ages well.

The Trail of Bits Blog — 26/08/2026

The author's conclusion that with agentic AI following security fundamentals has never been more important is certainly worth repeating. But their experiment shows that the problem goes deeper than that. So much of our technology stack is not built to be resilient to attackers that can at literally superhuman speed mix and match exploits - and with the incredible complexity of modern computer systems there is just no way of reliably telling whether a system really is secure against any given combination.