{"id":1017939,"date":"2026-07-01T07:51:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017939"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:23:51","slug":"digital-sovereignty-concept-being-weaponised-us-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/digital-sovereignty-concept-being-weaponised-us-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital sovereignty concept being weaponised: US official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of digital and artificial intelligence sovereignty is in the danger of being weaponised by different political voices overseas, a senior US official said here, urging nations not to &#8220;sink&#8221; billions of dollars in &#8220;re-inventing&#8221; a technology that already exists. <\/p>\n<p>US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg was addressing the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) Leadership Summit here. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my view, sovereignty comes from being a net contributor to the world&#8217;s innovation ecosystem. It is about innovation sovereignty, not just &#8216;do you control last year&#8217;s stack entirely in-house&#8217;,&#8221; Helberg said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of digital and artificial intelligence sovereignty is in the danger of being weaponised by different political voices overseas, a senior US official said here, urging nations not to &#8220;sink&#8221; billions of dollars in &#8220;re-inventing&#8221; a technology that already exists. US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg was addressing the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) Leadership Summit here. &#8220;In my view, sovereignty comes from being a net contributor to the world&#8217;s innovation ecosystem. It is about innovation sovereignty, not just &#8216;do you control last year&#8217;s stack entirely in-house&#8217;,&#8221; Helberg said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017940,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017939\/revisions\/1017940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}