Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
Who Owns the Foundation? — Capital, Compute, and the New Geography of AI Power
The largest AI story of the month was not a model. According to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia is in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing so that […]
Anthropic Gives Claude a Voice – Not Every Model Gets to Speak
Anthropic Gives Claude a Voice. Not Every Model Gets to Speak The interface is quietly becoming a...
Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis Calls for a U.S.- Led Global AI Watchdog
On July 14, 2026, in an exclusive interview with Axios and in a newly published framework on...
From Ankara to Boston: American Stewardship in the Age of AI
At the NATO Summit in Ankara on July 7–8, 2026, allies debated access to America's most advanced...
Physical AI Emerges as the Next Strategic Frontier
RAISE SUMMIT 2026 AND MACHINA · PARIS · JULY 7–9, 2026 At RAISE Summit 2026 and...
When a Nation Restricts a Model: Anthropic, an AI Pioneer, and the Question of Human Authority
The most consequential AI story of the past week centered on Anthropic and its CEO, Dario Amodei...
When intelligence begins to build itself
Recursive Self-Improvement, Multi-Agent Emergence, and the Architecture of Trust A new...
BGF Statement on Human Responsibility for AI-Generated Content
As artificial intelligence becomes a powerful creator and distributor of content, the Boston Global...
The Lumina Declaration Responding to Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas
Welcoming and responding to Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, Nguyen Anh...