New YorkLiberia’s envoy told the Security Council Africa must co-write AI standards.

Fewer than half of African countries have AI policies, University of Cape Town’s Jonathan Shock says.

Open-weight models such as DeepSeek can be downloaded and modified, so developers cannot shut them down remotely, Carnegie Endowment’s Jane Munga says.

Shock says governments may act only after a catastrophic incident, which he calls his optimistic view.

How each outlet framed it
Rest of World
foregrounds testing capability gap and regulatory fragmentation risk to US/Chinese tech companies

Sources: Rest of World