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The ideological battle currently gripping the U.S. government is a direct result of competing frameworks that are fueling the ongoing government operations crisis.
Since 2017, The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) has produced an annual study of the macro-level trends and impacts of Artificial Intelligence.
According to a recent report by Google, there were more than 50 threat actors tied to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia that the company observed using artificial intelligence (AI) technology powered by Google’s Gemini to facilitate their nefarious cyber and information-enabled operations. These actors leveraged the technology to support different phases of the cyber attack cycle,…
The intersection of disruptive technologies and humanitarian aid is reshaping disaster response. Yet, institutional barriers, cognitive biases, and slow-moving public-private partnerships hinder their full implementation.
As transformative AI reshapes industries, businesses must rethink how they create and deliver value – forcing companies to adapt their business models and value propositions to stay competitive in a new economic paradigm.
The true macroeconomic impact of artificial intelligence remains uncertain. While it promises productivity gains and economic growth, concerns about job displacement, global competition, AI acceleration and diffusion, and misleading economic indicators are rising.
The January 2025 OODA Network Monthly Meeting—held on Friday, January 17, 2025 —featured guest speaker and OODA Network Member John Sullivan (Retired Los Angeles Sheriff; Counterintelligence Expert, and Wildfire Disaster Response Subject Matter Expert).
Greenland’s geopolitical significance is increasingly viewed through the lens of Thomas Barnett’s re-regionalization framework, which examines how global economic and security realignments are shifting toward regional integration.
The Senate Committee on Armed Services held a hearing 29 January 2025 on the topic of defense innovation and acquisition reform.
Russia has been on the forefront of solidifying its ties with United States’ enemies and has engaged in similar agreements with China and North Korea, and now with Iran.
To differentiate OODA Loop coverage of the recent DeepSeek disruption of the global AI marketplace, we start with a straight no-chaser DeepSeek-R1 technical and performance benchmark analysis designed for our spectrum of readers.
As open-source AI continues to challenge proprietary systems, historical lessons from the broader open-source movement provide valuable insights into the balance between innovation, security, and regulation.
All videos from OODAcon 2024 are now available as is our OODAcon 2024 conference summary
The U.S. government’s new push for AI deregulation aims to solidify American leadership in the AI race while raising concerns over security and ethical oversight.
Despite evolving crypto policies and regulatory shifts, significant security, trust, and privacy challenges in cryptocurrency and blockchain remain persistent, threatening financial stability and public trust.
China’s Ministry of Commerce announced on Tuesday the inclusion of a major US biotech company on its “unreliable entity list” while stating that the firm’s “discriminatory measures against Chinese enterprises” harmed the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies. Leading American genomic sequencing firm Illumina is the first biotech company on Beijing’s list. More than…
The cost of clean energy technologies worldwide, such as wind, solar and battery storage, are expected to fall further this year, a report by BloombergNEF showed on Thursday, despite rising protectionism in the form of tariffs on green energy imports. New wind and solar farms already undercut the production costs of new coal and gas…
In a breakthrough achievement towards making quantum computing practical on a large scale, scientists at the University of Oxford have successfully demonstrated distributed quantum computing for the first time. By allowing small quantum devices to work together rather than overloading a single machine, the researchers achieved quantum teleportation of logical gates, according to the findings…
The US Air Force is developing a low-cost cruise missile known as the Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM), which could evolve into an air-launched counter-drone weapon, The War Zone reported. Whether the weapon will be a jack-of-all-trades or master of none in the drone warfare era is unclear. The ERAM program, launched to meet the…
Humanoid robots could soon move in a far more realistic manner — and even dance just like us — thanks to a new software framework for tracking human motion. Developed by researchers at UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, MIT, and Nvidia, “ExBody2” is a new technology that enables humanoid robots to perform realistic movements based…
While the AI market has in recent days seemed to collapse around DeepSeek and OpenAI, there are of course many other teams of brilliant engineers fielding large language models (LLMs) that are worth a look as users and enterprises seek to use the latest and greatest. Take Mistral AI, the French startup that made headlines…
Amazon said Thursday it plans to boost its capital expenditures to $100 billion in 2025, as it continues its investments in artificial intelligence. The capex figure exceeds last year’s spending of roughly $83 billion. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had predicted in October that the company’s 2025 capex would surpass last year’s figure, primarily driven by…
The Bank of England has halved its growth projection for the UK. The Bank of England halved its growth projection for the UK at its recent meeting. They also lowered the main interest to 4.50% which is the lowest level since 2023. The move is a blow to the Labour government which has prioritized increasing…
The Philippine Vice President has been impeached after facing several allegations related to official misconduct. The Philippine Vice President has been impeached after facing scrutiny for several scandals. The Vice President was impeached an accusations of plotting to assassinate the President, corruption, and not taking a strong stance against Chinese aggression. The impeachment comes after…
France has adopted a budget. The French government has adopted a budget after several fractious debates. The Prime Minister was forced to use special constitutional powers to force the budget through. The far left and far right parties opposed the move, but enough members voted in favor to overcome the opposition. The budget aims to…
Additional police forces have arrived in Haiti to support on going operations. 200 additional Kenyan police officers have arrived in Haiti to support on going operations within the country. Haitian police and international forces have thus far been unable to restore order in the crisis ridden nation. Other nations in the region have continued to…
Cisco has patched several vulnerabilities in its enterprise security product. Cisco has patched several vulnerabilities in its enterprise security product. The vulnerabilities could allow threat actors to compromise devices by using administrative level privileges to compromise APIs. Cisco has said they working to resolve other vulnerabilities that users have identified in its products. Read more:…
Spanish police have arrested an individual wanted in connection with several cyber attacks against NATO. Spanish police have arrested an individual wanted in connection with several cyber attacks against NATO and US military infrastructure. The police were able to identify him after he launched a cyber attack against the Spanish civil guard. Police also seized…
A major US hiring platform has exposed the data of several million users. The US online hiring platform Foh&Boh has exposed the data of millions of job seekers. The site stored applicant data on an exposed AWS server. The server has been exposed for an unknown amount of time. The exposed data largely relates to…
Researchers have uncovered a large network of malicious apps targeting Android users in India. Cyber security researchers have uncovered a large network of malicious apps targeting Android users in India. The apps intercepted SMS messages and used those messages to initiate transactions. The apps also had systems to ensure they could not be deleted from…
The European Commission has announced the opening of a new Biotech and Biomanufacturing Hub, supporting start-ups and small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in bringing new innovations to the EU market. The Hub, hosted on the EU Commission’s Your Europe portal, is in all EU languages and explains such things as: the sources of EU funding…
Apple Inc., which counts China as its biggest manufacturing hub and the US as its largest market, is now at the center of an escalating geopolitical fight that threatens to span tariffs and regulatory probes. The Trump administration’s new 10% levy on Chinese-made goods is poised to squeeze the company at an already-challenging time, when…
Google (GOOG) aims to release commercial quantum computing applications within five years, Google’s head of quantum told Reuters on Wednesday, in a challenge to Nvidia’s predictions of a 20-year wait. “We’re optimistic that within five years we’ll see real-world applications that are possible only on quantum computers,” founder and lead of Google Quantum AI Hartmut…
ChatGPT no longer requires you to log in to use the AI chatbot’s search engine, OpenAI announced on Wednesday. With the feature, ChatGPT will surface responses based on information from the web while presenting a list of sources it used to inform its answer. OpenAI first launched its search engine to paid ChatGPT subscribers last…
Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced a partnership designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The tie-up is with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI Institute), earlier known as The Boston Dynamics AI Institute. Both organizations were founded by Marc Raibert, a former MIT professor who served as Boston Dynamics’ CEO for…
When 102 humanoid robots from 10 different companies converged last month at a sprawling 4,000-square-metre facility on the outskirts of Shanghai, trained in essential tasks – walking, making beds, washing dishes, screwing bolts and even welding – it showed how China is on the fast track to a future where humans and humanoid robots seamlessly…
Google is bringing its experimental “reasoning” artificial intelligence model capable of explaining how it answers complex questions to the Gemini app. The Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking update is part of a slew of Gemini 2.0 AI rollouts announced by Google today, including its latest Gemini 2.0 Pro flagship model. This comes as the search giant…
A Chinese software engineer who worked for Alphabet Inc.’s Google faces new charges of economic espionage by the US Justice Department for allegedly stealing trade secrets to boost China’s AI industry. Linwei Ding, who was indicted in March, now faces seven counts of economic espionage along with seven counts of theft of trade secrets under…
Last week, DeepSeek sent Silicon Valley into a panic by proving you could build powerful AI on a shoestring budget. In some respects, it was too good to be true. Recent testing has shown that DeepSeek’s AI models are more vulnerable to manipulation than those of its more expensive competitors from Silicon Valley. That challenges…
Quantum researchers at Google created a new approach to quantum simulation that combined analog and digital approaches, proving out a new way of testing the supercomputers of the future. The team used a quantum simulator made up of 69 superconducting quantum bits, or qubits, to test out their approach. Their research—published Wednesday in Nature—revealed the…
In just a few days, France will host the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, with heads of state flocking to Paris to meet global tech leaders. They’ll most likely announce some big investments and diplomatic agreements focused on safety or the environmental impact of artificial intelligence. Ahead of the summit, early-stage VC firm Galion.exe, growth investment…
Figure AI announced that it had signed its second major commercial partner, bringing the dream of humanoid robots from labs into everyday life closer than ever. CEO Brett Adcock said the deal might make it possible to ship 100,000 humanoid robots over the next four years. While details of the new customer remain under wraps,…
Amazon is using math to help solve one of artificial intelligence’s most intractable problems: its tendency to make up answers, and to repeat them back to us with confidence. The issue, known as hallucinations, have been a problem for users since AI chatbots hit the mainstream over two years ago. They’ve caused people and businesses…
Google on Tuesday updated its ethical guidelines around artificial intelligence, removing commitments not to apply the technology to weapons or surveillance. The company’s AI principles previously included a section listing four “Applications we will not pursue.” As recently as Thursday, that included weapons, surveillance, technologies that “cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” and…
U.S. President Trump stated on Tuesday that the U.S. will “take over” and “own” Gaza, resettling Palestinians elsewhere. He claims that his new redevelopment plan could turn Gaza into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” Trump also said that his administration would work to supply housing and an unlimited number of jobs for people in…
Lawmakers impeached Vice President Sara Duterte of the Philippines on Wednesday, escalating political tensions in the country. Duterte faced four complaints over alleged misuse of millions in public funds. Additionally, she had pronounced plans to assassinate President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., his wife, and his cousin who is speaker of the House of Representatives. She…
U.S. President Trump will cut off U.S. engagement with the United Nations Human Rights Council and extend a funding band on UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. Trump has already withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization (WHO) since taking office. The withdrawal from UNRWA coincides with Israeli…
The Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group has declared a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for humanitarian reasons. The unilateral ceasefire began on Tuesday. Last week, the group seized Goma, the main city in eastern DRC, with the help of thousands of Rwandan troops. The United Nations estimates that over 900 people were…
Russian hackers have been observed exploiting a 7-Zip zero day against Ukrainian entities. The exploited flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-0411, was discovered in September 2024 in 7-Zip version 24.09. It was patched around two months later. The bug allows an attacker to bypass the Mark-of-the-Web (MoTW) protection mechanism, which prevents the automatic execution of untrusted files.…
A new tactic is being used by ransomware actors in their ransomware notes. These malicious actors are now posting advertisements to solicit insider information. Researchers believe that multiple groups including Sarcoma and another group impersonating LockBit are using the new strategy. The ransomware note attempts to entice the employee to give up insider information, offering…
A new malicious practice is being called “infrastructure laundering,” where attackers exploit mainstream hosting providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Researchers have linked the China-based Funnull content delivery network (CDN) to this practice. During infrastructure laundering, threat actors operate “hosting companies” who rent IP addresses from these mainstream providers, then mapping…
Japanese electronics maker Casio’s UK website was compromised after being injected with a web skimmer. The skimmer was found to have collected buyers’ personal and payment card information. The same skimmer has allegedly been added to at least seventeen other undisclosed websites. After victims entered and submitted their personal, contact, and payment info, the skimmer…
Valentine’s Day is in two weeks, and the traditional gifts are already flying off store shelves: jewelry, watches, colognes, cards, and boxes and boxes of chocolate. All thoughtful, personal gifts—yet the process of manufacturing them is anything but warm and fuzzy. Production lines around the world have been busy churning out consumer goods at scale,…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the buzzword of our time. It’s a term that often conjures images of robots and self-learning machines, but in reality, AI is a broad umbrella with many distinct subfields. Two of the most talked-about developments today are generative AI and agentic AI. The crucial thing to grasp is that they…
Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, believes that quantum computing, a technology that could revolutionize industries from medicine to materials science, may be closer than some experts think. In a recent interview on Yahoo Finance’s Opening Bid podcast, Gates suggested that useful quantum computers could arrive in as little as three to five…
Last Friday, AI startup OpenAI filed a new application to trademark products associated with its brand — “OpenAI” — with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Normally, this wouldn’t be newsworthy. Companies file for trademarks all the time. But in the application, OpenAI hints at new product lines both nearer-term and of a more…
China retaliated to Donald Trump’s opening trade war tariffs by targeting a handful of American companies and slapping levies on some US goods, in a move seemingly designed to avoid escalating tensions between the world’s biggest economies. Beijing imposed a 15% levy on less than $5 billion of US energy imports and a moderate 10%…
Self-driving truck startup Waabi is partnering with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to jointly develop and deploy autonomous trucks, an important milestone as it gets closer to a commercial launch. The tie up also marks Volvo’s second partnership to co-develop self-driving big rigs with a startup partner. In May 2024, Volvo teamed up with Aurora Innovation to…
As artificial intelligence reshapes industries, it is critical for businesses to view AI governance not merely as a regulatory obligation but as an ethical imperative. With years of experience researching and advocating for the responsible use of AI, I have witnessed firsthand the profound benefits and significant risks it brings to society. Issues such as…
A week-long standoff at a Ukrainian agency is beginning to disrupt arms contracts. The standoff between Ukraine’s defense minister and the official overseeing weapons procurement began over a week ago, and remains unsolved. Over 80 defense companies “are unable to receive payment for completed orders and sign new contracts.” These companies accounted for around a…
China has retaliated against Trump’s new tariffs by imposing ones of its own. On Tuesday, China announced that there would be 10 percent tariffs on imports from the U.S. of crude oil, agricultural machinery, displacement vehicles, and some trucks. Additionally, China imposed a 15 percent tariff on imports from the U.S. of coal and liquefied…
New information has led American officials to now believe that Iran is developing plans for a faster, cruder way to develop an atomic weapon. The intelligence warns that Iranian weapons engineers and scientists are looking for a quick way to develop an atomic weapon in just months if Tehran chooses to race for a bomb.…
On Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum, and U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the threatened U.S. tariffs would be paused for one month. The measures were expected to come into effect on Tuesday, but social media posts confirmed the agreement delaying the tariffs just one day before. Sheinbaum stated that…
A new phishing campaign is targeting the X accounts of high-profile individuals. Targets include journalists, political figures, and even an X employee. Malicious actors are attempting to hijack the accounts of these individuals and exploit them to commit cryptocurrency fraud. While the campaign is most prominent on X, it is not contained to just the…
Globe Life, an insurance firm, has revealed that a malicious actor may have compromised the data of around 850,000 individuals. A data breach in October 2024 may have led to the compromise of personal, health, and insurance information of hundreds of thousands of people. The attack was discovered when a threat actor attempted to extort…
The data of over one million individuals was compromised in the recent data breach of Connecticut healthcare provider Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC). The incident was discovered on January 2, when the organization found unusual activity on its network. The attacker was able to access or exfiltrate patient health records, containing information such as Social…
The Python Package Index (PyPI) package repository has been found to contain two malicious packages leveraging the DeepSeek name. Although they were only up for around 30 minutes, the packages were downloaded 36 times. The malicious attack began on January 29, when the packages were published. They appeared to be client libraries to access and…
Irish biotech GH Research has said the phase 2 win for its inhaled depression drug has “paved the way for future commercial success.” The inhaled mebufotenin candidate, dubbed GH001, was evaluated in the midstage study of 81 patients with treatment-resistant depression. The 40 patients who received GH001 saw an average 15.2 point reduction on the…
Meta’s total investment in virtual and augmented reality is set to top $100bn this year, as its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has declared 2025 will be a “defining year” for its smart glasses. In its latest annual report, Meta revealed it invested $19.9bn in its Reality Labs division last year, hitting a new high after…
UBS offers Swiss retail and wealth clients the ability to make fractional gold investments through its UBS key4 gold product. It is managed using a permissioned blockchain, the UBS Gold Network, but now the bank wants to explore making the offering available outside of Switzerland. Hence, it ran a proof of concept (PoC) using ZKsync,…
A hint to the future arrived quietly over the weekend. For a long time, I’ve been discussing two parallel revolutions in AI: the rise of autonomous agents and the emergence of powerful Reasoners since OpenAI’s o1 was launched. These two threads have finally converged into something really impressive – AI systems that can conduct research…
A team of engineers, physicists and computer specialists at Canadian company, Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., has unveiled what they describe as the world’s first scalable, connected, photonic quantum computer prototype. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes how they designed and built their modularized quantum computer, and how it can be…
Last week, Chinese robotics company Unitree released a video showing 16 of its H1 humanoid robots busting moves alongside human dancers at a Spring Festival (or Chinese New Year) Gala event. They not only danced in sync with the beat and the human troupe, but each of them also flawlessly pulled off an incredibly challenging…
A week ago, OpenAI released a tool that can go online to shop for groceries or book a restaurant reservation. Now it is offering A.I. technology that can gather information from across the internet and synthesize it in concise reports. OpenAI unveiled the new tool, called Deep Research, with a demonstration on YouTube on Sunday,…
This engaging session at OODAcon 2024 featured a deep dive into the intersection of national security, technology, and policy, led by Matt Devost, with contributions from experts Jim and Will. The panel explored the mindset of global adversaries and their dual approaches to conflict and peace. Scenarios discussed included potential moves like a Chinese blockade…
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