A California billionaire is proposing a new tax on AI tokens to fund a sovereign wealth fund. The proposal aims to capture value generated by AI systems and redistribute it for public benefit. The plan mirrors how oil-producing states use natural resource funds, applying similar logic to the AI economy.

https://gizmodo.com/this-california-billionaire-wants-to-tax-ai-tokens-to-create-a-sovereign-wealth-fund-2000741036

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This California Billionaire Wants to Tax AI Tokens to Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund

"We cannot have 12 trillionaires and 40 million people who can't make rent," says Tom Steyer.

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“The Illusion of the #Web3 #Decentralization

Does Web3 really decentralize power — or simply shift it to a new digital elite?

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https://doi.org/10.1017/dap.2026.10055

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Africa: Somali President Urges UN Security Council Reform At AU Summit: [Shabelle] Addis Ababa -- Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud called for an urgent overhaul of global governance on Monday, demanding a permanent seat for Africa on the UN Security Council during a high-level forum in the Ethiopian capital. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TQzlH9 #Africa #UNReform #GlobalGovernance #Somalia #HassanSheikhMohamud
Africa: General Assembly President Urges Europeans to 'Stand Up' for the UN: [UN News] The President of the United Nations General Assembly appealed on Tuesday for Europe to protect the international rules-based system, defend the truth in the face of fake news and other falsehoods, and support UN reform. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TQtgM8 #UN #UnitedNations #InternationalCooperation #GlobalGovernance #FakeNews

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at World Economic Forum in Davos

At Davos, Mark Carney warns the rules-based order has ruptured, urges middle powers to stop pretending, build shared resilience, and wield values-based realism to confront great-power coercion.

#CanadaForeignPolicy #Davos #democracy #EconomicCoercion #geopolitics #GlobalGovernance #GlobalOrder #GlobalSouth #GreatPowerRivalry #HumanRights #InternationalRelations #MarkCarney #MiddlePowers #Multilateralism #ProgressiveForeignPolicy #RulesBasedOrder #StrategicAutonomy #SustainableDevelopment #TradePolicy #ValuesBasedRealism #WorldEconomicForum https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oCV

My chapter “The (Dis)Illusion of #Web3 Decentralization for #GlobalGovernance in the Age of #GenAI” is out in @springernature_ct

Web3 ≠ automatic decentralization. Often, it reshapes power and digital privilege.

DOI👉https://lnkd.in/eArXzPpd
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Across the globe, views vary about Trump's world vision

Donald Trump is shaping a new world order of empires and coercion, from Venezuela to Greenland and through his newly created "Board of Peace, shattering the post-war global consensus.As the old order crumbles, AFP sought the views of ministers, advisers, lawmakers and military from across the globe.Celso Amorim, chief adviser to Brazil's President Lula Inacio Lula da Silva, described the situation as "a very difficult moment of transition to a new order"."But these periods of transition sometimes lead to terrible consequences," he added.

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