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The Indo-Pacific is at a digital inflection point where cyber cooperation could either enhance regional stability or become a new arena for geopolitical conflict. The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) is being pushed into a pivotal role.
The Arctic and space are deeply interwoven, through geography, strategy, environmental science, and geopolitics, making the High North both a launchpad and a lens for understanding Earth and beyond.
Startups entering the U.S. national security arena face both extraordinary opportunity and systemic complexity—this primer maps where to focus and how to engage.
The U.S. is witnessing a dramatic shift in its cryptocurrency policy landscape with accelerated efforts to cement a regulatory foundation for stablecoins and digital commodities.
This week’s OODA Network Dispatch discussed a party with a purpose, as well as providing a review of cybersecurity, geopolitical and technology items of interest. Yesterday OODA coordinated two events, a gathering of our network member in an exclusive bungalow and back stage at the Mandalay Bay Daylight Beach Club, as well as a larger…
This playbook explains how cybersecurity, AI/ML, LLMs, adversarial AI, AI sovereignty, red‑teaming, and agentic AI intersect and what it means for startup teams who are attending Black Hat USA 2025 and DEF CON 33.
In a recent OODAcast conversation between OODA CEO Matt Devost and Maxie Reynolds, red teamer and founder of a company deploying underwater data centers, Reynolds argues that sub-sea infrastructure—once viewed as novel—is now becoming a critical option for secure, sustainable, and high-performance AI workloads. Data Centers in space are also in the mix.
Once again, OODA Network Member Robert Stratton will be participating as a judge in Black Hat 2025 Startup Spotlight.
Recently, a joint European-led operation combining the efforts of several law enforcement agencies successfully disrupted the activities of a pro-Russian hacktivist group known as NoName057(16). Dubbed “Operation Eastwood” the collaboration proved highly effective in degrading 100 servers of the group’s worldwide infrastructure that had been used to execute thousands of attacks against Ukraine and its…
As the OODA Network and the Black Hat community enter Day 5 of Black Hat 2025 in Vegas, we tailored this OODA Loop Original Analysis for startup leadership teams and investors attending the conference. It seems that market and regulatory conditions are now optimized for the innovation ecosystem to take the accelerated lead in addressing…
Recent analysis of advanced AI system behavior has revealed capabilities that extend far beyond commonly understood “hallucination” problems.
The final topic discussed at the recent July 2025 OODA Network Meeting delved into the global AI race—a domain where opportunity, uncertainty, and strategic risk converge.
The Autonomy Institute’s new report reveals a sharp rise in AI-related risks disclosed by S&P 500 companies, signaling a pivotal shift in corporate awareness, regulatory exposure, and competitive threat perception. This analysis reveals how generative AI is reshaping corporate risk disclosures (and where systemic threats to the U.S. economy may emerge next).
The July 2025 OODA Network meeting featured an in-depth discussion of the accelerating convergence of AI, counter-drone defense, cybersecurity, and geopolitical instability, shaped by member insights and real-world operational experience.
The Center for a New American Security’s report “Swarms over the Strait: Drone Warfare in a Future Fight to Defend Taiwan” argues that drones will play a pivotal but insufficient role in a future U.S.-China conflict over Taiwan. The United States risks ceding critical battlespace in the Indo-Pacific unless it rapidly fields scalable small drone…
Air Canada and flight attendants union have resumed talks. After being on strike for three days, the flight attendants union and Air Canada have resumed talks. Talks had broken down after neither side was able to offer terms the other could agree to. The resumption of talks also takes place after the union defied a…
A shooting at a mosque in Nigeria has left 13 dead. A shooting at a mosque in northwestern Nigeria has left 13 dead. Terrorist attacks in this region of the country are not uncommon due to long standing tensions between religious communities. At this time, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Read more:…
Former Colombian President Uribe has been released from house arrest. A Colombian court has ordered that former President Uribe be released from house arrest pending his appeal. The former President had been guilty of several crimes and taken into custody. However, his lawyers successfully argued that his arrest violated his right to due process. Read…
Indian and Chinese officials have met as part of an effort to rebuild ties. India’s Prime Minister and China’s Foreign Minister held a meeting to discuss rebuilding ties between the two countries. The two countries have had tense relations for several decades due to on going border disputes and conflicting alliances. The two countries agreed…
AI is no longer on the horizon, it’s already transforming how organizations operate. In just a few years, we’ve gone from isolated pilots to enterprise-wide adoption. According to a recent SailPoint survey, 82% of companies are running AI agents today, often across multiple business functions. These agents aren’t just passive tools; they’re autonomous systems that…
Rescue workers on Tuesday recovered more bodies from a mountain village in northwest Pakistan where flash floods triggered by a cloudburst brought down homes and buildings, bringing the death count there to at least 20, the local district commissioner said. The count contributed to a total of 358 deaths in the floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…
At least 25 people have been rescued and 25 others are still missing two days after a boat carrying about 50 passengers capsized in Nigeria’s northwestern Sokoto State, emergency services said on Tuesday. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said 25 people were still unaccounted for and presumed dead. No bodies had been recovered as…
Firefighters in Indonesia are struggling to contain a three-day-old fire at an illegal oil well that has killed at least three people and injured two others, a disaster relief official said on Tuesday. Some 750 people have been evacuated from the densely populated areas around the site, located in Central Java province’s Blora region, Agung…
The Philippines is repositioning its historic Subic Bay shipyard as a cornerstone of both its own defence industry and Washington’s naval expansion plans, analysts say, at a time of sharpening US-China tensions and with Manila seeking to revitalise its economy. Speaking to business leaders in Washington on Thursday, Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country needed to rapidly expand its nuclear armament and called U.S.-South Korea military exercises an “obvious expression of their will to provoke war,” state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. South Korea and its ally the United States kicked off joint military drills this week, including testing an…
Islamic State-backed rebels armed with machetes and hoes have killed at least 52 civilians in the Beni and Lubero areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, UN and local officials said. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels were taking revenge on civilians after suffering defeats by Congolese forces, Lieutenant Elongo Kyondwa Marc,…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said in an interview that the U.S. could be underestimating China’s progress and capability in artificial intelligence. CNBC quoted Altman saying that export controls alone likely aren’t a reliable solution and that he’s worried about America’s biggest rival since the Cold War. “There’s inference capacity, where China probably can build…
Small models are having a moment. On the heels of the release of a new AI vision model small enough to fit on a smartwatch from MIT spinoff Liquid AI, and a model small enough to run on a smartphone from Google, Nvidia is joining the party today with a new small language model (SLM)…
Nvidia is developing a new AI chip for China based on its latest Blackwell architecture that will be more powerful than the H20 model it is currently allowed to sell there, two people briefed on the matter said.U.S. President Donald Trump last week opened the door to the possibility of more advanced Nvidia chips being…
The Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of about 10% in Intel Corp., a move that could see the US become the beleaguered chipmaker’s largest shareholder. The government’s plan, which would convert grants made under the US Chips and Science Act into equity, is under consideration just as SoftBank Group Corp. announced…
DeepSeek announced what appeared to be an update to its older V3 artificial intelligence model on Tuesday, declaring an enhanced version ready for testing. The V3.1 has a longer context window, according to a DeepSeek post to its official WeChat group, meaning it can consider a larger amount of information for any given query. That…
We are on the verge of a revolutionary period. AI-enabled, machine learning-enhanced robots are finding a place in every sector of the society, be it factories and warehouses, or hospitals, elderly nursing homes, and even in the streets. And it is a great responsibility that such power entails: How can we make sure that these…
Americans are deeply concerned over the prospect that advances in artificial intelligence could put swaths of the country out of work permanently, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The six-day poll, which concluded on Monday, showed 71% of respondents said they were concerned that AI will be “putting too many people out of work permanently.”…
Jeff Wang got a big promotion last month. There were lots of tears, but not the happy kind. The 39-year-old was unexpectedly named interim CEO of artificial intelligence coding startup Windsurf. The company had been in discussions with OpenAI about a potential acquisition that would have resulted in a handsome payday for many employees. But…
Trump hosts leaders seeking Ukraine peace but avoids firm commitments Trump hosted Zelenskyy and European leaders in a more cordial and supportive meeting than earlier this year, signaling openness to security guarantees for Ukraine but stopping short of endorsing NATO membership. European leaders praised Trump’s involvement and emphasized unity, while acknowledging major challenges ahead. Trump…
India and China reopen talks amid shifting global alliances Indian Prime Minister Modi will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss easing border tensions and restoring limited trade, signaling a thaw in relations. The two countries have slowly resumed diplomatic engagement after a 2020 clash in Ladakh, though key issues remain unresolved. Modi…
South Sudanese returnee recounts survival after Sudan prison ordeal Daud Mahmoud Abdullah returned to South Sudan in July after surviving months of torture and detention during Sudan’s ongoing civil war. Wrongly accused of aiding paramilitaries, he endured beatings, starvation, and inhumane prison conditions that reflect widespread abuse reported by the UN. His release, along with…
U.S. confronts rising threats in space from Russia and China Hackers aligned with Russia hijacked a Ukrainian satellite broadcast during Moscow’s Victory Day parade, highlighting the ways modern warfare now extends into space. U.S. officials warn of a potential Russian space-based nuclear weapon capable of destroying low-Earth orbit satellites, sparking fears of strategic and economic…
Workday hit in broader social engineering cyberattack Workday disclosed a data breach after attackers accessed a third-party CRM system and stole business contact details. The breach is part of a larger social engineering campaign affecting major firms, where attackers pose as internal staff to trick employees. While no customer data or internal systems were compromised,…
Researchers detail new vulnerability in 5G connection process A team from Singapore University of Technology and Design has revealed a 5G attack method that works without deploying a rogue base station. Their Sni5Gect framework intercepts unencrypted messages during brief reconnection windows, letting attackers inject malicious payloads and potentially crash or track devices. The attack works…
Lenovo chatbot vulnerability exposes session data and risks. Researchers found Lenovo’s AI chatbot, Lena, can be tricked into running unauthorized scripts and leaking session cookies through XSS vulnerabilities. A single crafted prompt exploited multiple flaws, allowing attackers to steal cookies and potentially access customer support systems. The issue stems from weak input/output sanitization and unchecked…
Pro-Russian hacktivists target Ukrainian and European agencies The NoName hacktivist group launched cyberattacks against nearly a dozen Ukrainian government bodies and key infrastructure just before President Zelensky visited the White House. They also targeted Brussels’ institutions with DDoS attacks linked to European Commission meetings. NoName has a history of attacking NATO countries and critical infrastructure,…
Mira has showcased responsive, record-setting maneuverability in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The upgraded design delivers higher performance for even more challenging orbital regimes, including Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), Geostationary Orbit (GEO), cislunar space and beyond. In addition to being optimized for higher energy orbits, the next-generation Mira vehicle provides increased delta-v, greater power for payloads,…
The Congolese government and M23 rebels have missed Monday’s deadline to reach a peace agreement in Doha, raising fears that tensions between the two parties might derail talks and reverse progress made to end the conflict. Fighting in eastern Congo has intensified this year, with the M23 group launching an offensive that allowed it to…
An airstrike by Myanmar’s military on the town of Mogok, the center of the Southeast Asian country’s lucrative gem-mining industry, has killed at least 21 people including a pregnant woman, an armed opposition group, local residents and Myanmar’s online media said Saturday. The incident was the latest in a series of frequent and deadly military…
Syria faces a potential food crisis after the worst drought in 36 years slashed wheat production by around 40%, squeezing the country’s cash-strapped government, which has been unable to secure large-scale purchases. Around three million Syrians could face severe hunger, the United Nations’ World Food Programme told Reuters in written answers to questions, without giving…
Myanmar will hold the initial phase of its general election on December 28, state television said on Monday, outlining a roadmap for the first polls in the war-torn country in nearly five years that have already been derided by critics as a sham. The dates for the subsequent phases of the elections, which authorities plan…
At least 40 people are missing after a boat capsized Sunday on a river in northwestern Nigeria, authorities said. The accident happened around the Goronyo area in Sokoto state while the boat was transporting passengers to a market, Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency said in a statement late Sunday. The emergency agency said only 10…
China seeks a strategic advantage in underwater drone technology. While the surface navy is playing catch-up by emulating the still more powerful U.S. Navy, in the underwater realm China is investing more. In particular it is developing extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicles (XLUUVs) more quickly than other navies. The world has largely been oblivious to this,…
Ateam of scientists has created a groundbreaking material – a metal oxide composed of strontium, iron, and cobalt – that can literally “breathe” oxygen. When heated in a simple gas environment, the crystal releases oxygen and then reabsorbs it repeatedly without breaking down, a feature that could open new avenues for clean energy technologies. The…
The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat. Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the…
China has mandated that all domestic data centers begin using more Chinese-produced processors as part of an increasing initiative to make China self-sufficient when it comes to silicon, as reported by SCMP. This comes at a time of enormous global investment in datacenters, AI, and processor production, with an increased drive towards self-sufficiency and nationalistic…
This summer, Russia’s hackers put a new twist on the barrage of phishing emails sent to Ukrainians. The hackers included an attachment containing an artificial intelligence program. If installed, it would automatically search the victims’ computers for sensitive files to send back to Moscow. That campaign, detailed in July in technical reports from the Ukrainian…
Terra Quantum has published a groundbreaking advance in quantum error correction that redefines how we scale quantum computing. In the peer-reviewed paper “QMM-Enhanced Error Correction: Demonstrating Reversible Imprinting and Retrieval for Robust Quantum Computation”, Terra Quantum scientists present QMM-Enhanced Error Correction, a hardware-validated, measurement-free method for suppressing quantum errors, based on principles derived initially from…
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. will operate a US factory owned by SoftBank Group Corp., setting up what’s in the running to be the first manufacturing site in the Japanese company’s $500 billion Stargate venture with OpenAI and Oracle Corp. SoftBank is acquiring Hon Hai’s electric-vehicle plant in Ohio but the Taiwanese company will continue…
A gentle frenzy swept through the annual World Robot Conference, held from Friday, August 8, to Tuesday, August 12, in Beijing, just ahead of the World Robot Games, taking place from Friday, August 15, to Sunday, August 17, inside Beijing’s National Stadium, which hosted the 2008 Olympic Games. As officials in shirt sleeves and black…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks the artificial intelligence market is in a bubble, according to a report from The Verge published Friday. “When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth,” Altman told a small group of reporters last week. “Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited…
Paramilitary shelling kills civilians in Darfur displacement camp. Paramilitary forces shelled the Abu Shouk camp near el-Fasher, killing at least 31 people, including children and a pregnant woman, according to the Sudan Doctors Network. It was the second attack on the camp in a week, part of the Rapid Support Forces’ push to take the…
Deadly drone threat slows aid to Ukraine’s wounded soldiers Medical teams in eastern Ukraine face growing challenges evacuating wounded soldiers due to the widespread use of Russian FPV drones. Once able to reach near the front line, medics now operate in expanding “kill zones” where drones strike with deadly precision, delaying care and increasing fatalities.…
Flooding in Pakistan kills hundreds amid warnings and blame Severe flooding in Pakistan’s Buner district has killed at least 274 people, with dozens more bodies found under collapsed homes after torrential rains and cloudbursts. Residents blamed officials for failing to issue timely evacuation alerts, while authorities defended their response and cited the unpredictability of extreme…
Bolivia heads to runoff after centrist leads in tight election Senator Rodrigo Paz unexpectedly led Bolivia’s presidential vote with 32.8%, forcing an October runoff against right-wing former president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga. The result dealt a blow to the long-dominant MAS party, fractured by infighting and protests after its founder Evo Morales was barred from running.…
Cybersecurity teams stretched as budgets shrink and risks rise Reports from IANS and Swimlane show cybersecurity budgets are growing more slowly due to global economic instability and federal policy uncertainty. This budget strain is forcing security teams to delay initiatives, rely more on automation, and reduce focus on national-level coordination. Staff shortages, reduced morale, and…
Cisco fixes critical flaw in firewall management platform Cisco released over 20 security advisories for its firewall products, including a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-20265) in Secure FMC that allows remote code execution via crafted Radius authentication input. The flaw stems from improper input handling and affects high-privilege command execution. Cisco also patched several high-severity issues that…
Xerox patches critical flaws in FreeFlow Core print software Xerox has fixed two serious vulnerabilities in its FreeFlow Core platform that could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Discovered by Horizon3, the flaws — an XXE injection and a path traversal issue — were shown to enable webshell deployment on vulnerable systems. FreeFlow…
New attack exploits HTTP/2 stream cancellation flaw Researchers discovered MadeYouReset, a new DDoS attack exploiting a design flaw in HTTP/2 stream cancellation. The vulnerability causes servers to process requests after streams are canceled, leading to unbounded concurrent requests on a single connection. Though not yet exploited in the wild, many major projects are affected, and…
Quantinuum, Ltd., a quantum computing company, has announced a Series B preferred shares subscription from Quanta Computer Inc. (Quanta), a Taiwanese hardware company. The transaction, dated August 12, 2025, is valued at approximately $50 million USD for 1,867,840 shares, and is intended as a long-term investment by Quanta. This investment follows a broader trend of…
Australia on Friday launched its largest military exercises with Philippine forces, involving more than 3,600 military personnel in live-fire drills, battle maneuvers and a beach assault at a Philippine town facing the disputed South China Sea, where the allies have raised alarm over Beijing’s assertive actions. The exercises are called Alon, meaning wave in the…
Afghan women were barred from attending celebrations marking the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power on Friday. Some 10,000 men gathered across the capital, Kabul, to watch Defense Ministry helicopters scatter flowers to the crowds below. Three of the six “flower shower” locations were already off-limits to women because they have been prohibited…
A deputy to a prominent Chinese diplomat being questioned by authorities was also detained, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a further sign of uncertainty in the top echelons of China’s diplomacy. Sun Haiyan, a senior diplomat and former ambassador to Singapore, was detained in early August around the time Liu Jianchao, widely…
At least 189 people were killed in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province and eight in Gilgit-Baltistan over the past 24 hours as rains and floods triggered multiple incidents, while a government helicopter carrying relief goods crashed in bad weather, killing five crew members, officials said on Friday. Pakistan, which contributes less than 1 percent…
The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday rejected plans by Sudan’s paramilitary group to establish a rival government in areas it controls, warning that the move threatens the country’s territorial integrity and risks further exacerbating the ongoing civil war. The strongly worded statement by the U.N.’s most powerful body “unequivocally reaffirmed” its unwavering commitment to Sudan’s…
Mali’s military rulers say they have arrested a group of military personnel and civilians, including two Malian generals and a suspected French agent, accusing them of attempting to destabilise the country. The security minister, Gen Daouda Aly Mohammedine, who announced the arrests on the local evening news on Thursday, told viewers an investigation was under…
The Chinese economy slowed noticeably in July, according to official statistics released on Friday, highlighting a complex set of challenges facing China amid growing global tensions over trade. The government attributed the slowdown partly to the trade war with the United States, though China’s economy is still suffering the overhang of a four-year-long crash in…
The last few months have been an exciting time for the Gemma family of open models. We introduced Gemma 3 and Gemma 3 QAT, delivering state-of-the-art performance for single cloud and desktop accelerators. Then, we announced the full release of Gemma 3n, a mobile-first architecture bringing powerful, real-time multimodal AI directly to edge devices. Our…
A U.S. analyst of Chinese technology said that the country has already solved its energy problem — at least in terms of power for its AI infrastructure. Rui Ma, founder of Tech Buzz China, posted on X that the country’s massive investments in advanced hydropower and nuclear technologies meant that its “electricity supply is secure…
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