Docket+ 28 September
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Below the paywall today -
* To Trust or Not to Trust: Retrieval-Augmented Fact Checking in Speech
* Russia keeps attacking Ukrainian data centers, calling it a ‘mandatory digital detox’
* Journalists Show Power of Solidarity in Response to White House Press Ban
* To Trust or Not to Trust: Retrieval-Augmented Fact Checking in Speech
* Russia keeps attacking Ukrainian data centers, calling it a ‘mandatory digital detox’
* Journalists Show Power of Solidarity in Response to White House Press Ban
Highlights
- AI Breakout Capacity: A Middle-Power Path Between Racing and Dependence (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 28 September)
- Google Ad Tech Remedies Show Need for Legislation (Tech Policy Press, 28 September)
- AI learned how to write from humans. Now humans are trying not to sound like AI. (Poynter, 28 September)
- ‘United by chaos:’ Examining the Russian nexus to online networks of nihilistic violence (ISD, 15 September)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- 2026 Carnegie California AI Survey (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 17 September)
- When Intelligence Becomes a Strategic Asset: Frontier AI, Sandbox Breakouts, and the Case for Independent Oversight (Just Security, 28 September)
- What Non-Western Governments Said About AI at the UN (Tech Policy Press, 28 September)