India
Assorted links for 29 August 2026
Nine links: which of England's two planning AI tools is actually live, what MIT's committee found had changed on campus in under three years, an Ebola nowcast in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the first evaluation of a proprietary model by someone who never saw its weights.
Assorted links for 27 August 2026
Eleven links: what METR found inside OpenAI's agent incident, what an IMF paper puts on the table for African growth, where India sits per head rather than in total, and a Brazilian committee text that requires human supervision and authorises facial recognition in the same breath.
Vietnam's AI scoring sheet puts sixty-five of a hundred marks on doing the work
Vietnam's criteria for public-service AI platforms, in force since 19 June, mark a platform out of 100. Thirty-five marks are for compliance and sixty-five are labelled for the sector's own work. What those marks reward is not published, so the split between the two blocks is all the ministry has disclosed.
Using AI to write public comments improves every comment without closing the education gap
A survey experiment on US rulemaking found that ChatGPT made public comments easier to write and much better rated, without making people understand the rule any better. Agencies are now using the same models to read the comments.