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The Governance Architecture Race: Beijing, Google, and the Protocols That Can't Vote | 07.16.26
China opens its World AI Conference this week with Xi Jinping personally headlining a parallel High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, pushing a Shanghai-headquartered World AI Cooperation Organization built around a Beijing-drafted agenda. Google countered with its own architecture: a white paper proposing FARO, an industry-funded, federally overseen body to set frontier AI safety benchmarks and require audits before release. Underneath both proposals, new research shows the plumbing isn't ready — a gap analysis of the major agent interoperability protocols finds none of them can express…
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