Maintenance in progress

japan formally stood up a centralized national intelligence bureau, consolidating collection across agencies with an explicit focus on industrial and corporate espionage. a bank of england deputy governor said ai is advancing faster than expected and central banks must both adopt it and rebuild their own operations around it, while australia's central bank published a framework for unconventional tools should rates fall very low. three slow bodies preparing infrastructure for conditions they say have not arrived yet.

east asian government notices, central bank speeches