By Imran Khan (AI Tech Safar) Every country wants a piece of the AI economy, but almost none of them agree on how to get it. The US is racing China on raw capability. The World Bank is telling developing nations to adopt AI now or fall permanently behind. Africa is dealing with AI-powered cybercrime before it's even finished building AI infrastructure. And in the middle of all of it, governments keep getting invited into closed-door rooms — like the one OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta walked into at the White House this month — to figure out rules for technology that's already out in the world. There's no single "global AI policy." There are a dozen different races happening at once, at different speeds, for different reasons. This guide maps out where the money, the power, and the risk are actually landing around the world in 2026. Table of Contents Quick Summary & Key Takeaways The Global South's AI Adoption Race The US-China AI Rivalry Gove...