{"id":993981,"date":"2026-02-19T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993981"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:56:17","slug":"digital-swing-states-how-middle-powers-can-bridge-the-global-ai-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/digital-swing-states-how-middle-powers-can-bridge-the-global-ai-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital swing states: How middle powers can bridge the global AI divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The global AI landscape is increasingly being seen as a two-horse race between the United States and China, where the vast majority of infrastructure, capital, and talent are concentrated. The two superpowers control nearly 70% of the world\u2019s top-tier AI researchers, with their private and public investments reaching hundreds of billions of dollars each. This dominance is not merely economic; recent developments suggest both nations are willing to weaponise their technological capabilities to maintain geopolitical edges.<\/p>\n<p>This reality leaves significant powers\u2013India, France, the UK, Japan and others\u2013in a precarious position. They are understandably worried and unwilling to remain bystanders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global AI landscape is increasingly being seen as a two-horse race between the United States and China, where the vast majority of infrastructure, capital, and talent are concentrated. The two superpowers control nearly 70% of the world\u2019s top-tier AI researchers, with their private and public investments reaching hundreds of billions of dollars each. This dominance is not merely economic; recent developments suggest both nations are willing to weaponise their technological capabilities to maintain geopolitical edges. This reality leaves significant powers\u2013India, France, the UK, Japan and others\u2013in a precarious position. They are understandably worried and unwilling to remain bystanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993981","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}