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Artificial Intelligence (AI) dominated the tech landscape during the past year integrating into business with companies seeking to improve their operations, work more efficiently, automate wherever possible, and generally enhance their operations
Generative AI is revolutionizing the innovation process by enhancing human creativity, accelerating product development, and driving strategic advantage.
A recent analysis by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), entitled The AI Maturity Matrix: Which Economies Are Ready for AI? highlights that while many organizations are making strides in AI adoption, most are still far from achieving true AI maturity, leading to significant risks to economic stability, job markets, and geopolitical power dynamics.
OODA Loop research and Network conversations throughout 2024 revealed the evolving responsibilities and strategic imperatives of boards of directors in cybersecurity governance.
In this OODAcon 2024 session, geostrategist and author Thomas Barnett provided a deep dive into the evolving geopolitical landscape based on his latest book, America’s New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse.
Scenario planning is an essential strategic tool that enables organizations to anticipate, prepare for, and navigate future risks and opportunities. By employing structured methodologies and leveraging advanced technologies, scenario planning fosters resilience and innovation across industries.
In this session at OODAcon 2024. Molly Just Behr, leader of the CHIPS Coordination Cell (C3) at the Department of Defense (DoD), explored the U.S. strategies and programs designed to mitigate supply chain risks, strengthen national security, and ensure technological superiority in a competitive global environment.
According to recent reporting, in the dwindling time left in office, the Biden Administration is racing to put out a cybersecurity Executive Order (EO) focusing on the recent spate of alleged China intrusions against U.S. organizations. Among the directives in the undated draft of the report seen by one news outlet the government intends to mandate “strong…
In this OODAcon 2024 session, Jason Healey of Columbia University and Dor Sarig of Pillar Security shed light on the transformative power of AI in cybersecurity in an era of escalating cyber risks.
I believe I have found a useful analogy that can help explain the new approach of Thermodynamic Computing: Surfing. The surfer harnessing the thermodynamic power of the ocean to surf.
Disruptive technologies like AI, quantum computing, biotechnology, and clean energy are revolutionizing industries, unlocking abundance, and solving systemic challenges once thought insurmountable.
The OODA Loop 2024 Year-End Reviews consolidate insights on federal policies, geopolitical risks, technological advancements, and cybersecurity trends to prepare decision-makers for the challenges and opportunities of 2025.
Russia’s recent strides in artificial intelligence development signal an intensification of a new kind of arms race—one where algorithms and neural networks become tools of coercion, disruption, and control
This OODAcon 2024 panel explored how convergence across domains such as AI, biotechnology, space/aerospace, and energy can help identify and accelerate technological advancements.
This OODAcon 2024 session featured investor and innovator Angela Dalton in conversation with OODA CTO Bob Gourley exploring how blockchain is converging with other technologies like AI, gaming, and media to create new business models and transform global systems.
VF Corporation has notified individuals of a data breach. VF Corporation whichs The North Face has notified users of a data breach. The company said that thousands of user creditentials had been stolen after a cyber attack. It is not currently clear who carried out the attack. Read more: https://www.securityweek.com/thousands-hit-by-the-north-face-credential-stuffing-attack/
Most information technology professionals (96%) view artificial intelligence agents as an escalating cybersecurity threat, according to a recent survey conducted by cybersecurity firm SailPoint. About two-thirds of IT executives see the technology posing an immediate risk, while 30% anticipate hazards in the near future. Nearly one in four respondents (23%) said deployed AI agents have…
Wiyuach Makuach sat on her bed in a dimly lit ward of a hospital near South Sudan’s border with Ethiopia and rested her remaining arm in her lap as she recalled the airstrike that took her other arm and nearly killed her. “Everything was on fire,” she said in an interview at the hospital in…
A string of moderate earthquakes off the coast of Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido has reignited concerns among experts and residents about the risk of a catastrophic seismic event – though scientists stress the tremors do not necessarily signal an impending disaster. Local authorities are taking no chances, however, instructing residents to take precautions just…
At least 11 people were killed and 33 were injured in a stampede outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru where thousands gathered to celebrate the victory of Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL 2025. The injured have been admitted to Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital and Vaidehi Hospital. Seven succumbed to their injuries at Bowring Hospital,…
The Achilles’ heel of the digital age lies beneath our oceans: fragile undersea cables that, when severed, can plunge entire regions into digital darkness. Undersea cables are the lifelines of modern economies: they carry over 95 percent of the world’s internet traffic, making them one of the most critical—yet vulnerable—pieces of infrastructure in the 21st…
The United Nations has raised grave concerns following the discovery of dozens of bodies in areas of the Libyan capital Tripoli previously controlled by a powerful militia, the Stabilisation Support Apparatus (SSA), whose leader was slain in clashes last month. United Nations rights chief Volker Turk said on Wednesday that his office was “shocked” by…
Apple’s rollout of artificial intelligence services in China with Alibaba is being held up by a Beijing regulator, as the tech partnership becomes the latest casualty of Donald Trump’s trade war. The tech giants have been working together to launch Apple Intelligence, the iPhone-maker’s suite of AI services, for Chinese users. The system would be…
All of the most popular artificial intelligence chatbots have the ability to upload and summarize documents, from legal contracts to an entire book. The tech promises to give you a kind of speed-reading superpower. But do any of the bots really understand what they’re reading? To figure out which AI tools you can trust as…
French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own “vibe coding” client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere’s Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Mistral Code, a fork of the open-source project Continue, is an AI-powered coding assistant that bundles Mistral’s models, an “in-IDE” assistant, local deployment options, and enterprise tools into a single package.…
Microsoft is offering free of charge to European governments a cybersecurity programme, launched on Wednesday, to bolster their defences against cyber threats, including those enhanced by artificial intelligence, it said. After a surge in cyberattacks in Europe, many linked to state-sponsored actors from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, the programme aims to boost intelligence-sharing…
Britain pledged on Wednesday to supply 100,000 drones to Ukraine by the end of the current financial year in April 2026, marking a tenfold increase, after saying the unmanned aerial vehicles had transformed the way wars are fought. The government on Monday endorsed an independently-produced Strategic Defence Review, which calls for a more lethal, tech-driven…
IonQ has completed its acquisition of Lightsynq Technologies, adding a suite of quantum networking technologies and more than 20 quantum memory-related patents to its portfolio, in a move that could push the company closer to delivering interconnected, data center-scale quantum systems. The deal, which closed on May 30 and was disclosed in a June 2…
AUK-based AI and robotics startup, Humanoid, has unveiled a teaser video showcasing its ambitious vision of a future where robots work alongside humans in everyday settings. The new reel showcases its general-purpose humanoid robot, HMND 01’s alpha prototype, which is expected later this year. According to the firm, the initial model will feature wheeled and…
OpenAI reportedly plans to turn ChatGPT into a “super-assistant” that is personalized to each user and available to them via the chatbot’s website, the company’s native apps, phone, email and third-party resources like Apple’s Siri. The plan is described in an OpenAI internal document from late 2024 that came to light in the Department of…
Cryogenic quantum computing hardware represents a critical frontier in the evolution of quantum technologies, leveraging ultra-low temperature environments to enable the stable operation of quantum bits (qubits). As of 2025, the market for cryogenic quantum computing hardware is experiencing accelerated growth, driven by increasing investments from both public and private sectors, as well as rapid…
Mongolia’s Prime Minister Luvsannamsrai Oyun-Erdene has stepped down after losing parliamentary support following corruption claims that erupted into street protests last month, the country’s parliament said on Tuesday. The parliament of the world’s largest landlocked country did not pass a draft resolution on a confidence ballot, meaning Oyun-Erdene was deemed to have resigned, a parliament…
An explosion killed two suspected rebels including a female suicide bomber near a Roman Catholic shrine in Uganda’s capital Kampala on Tuesday morning, but no other people were reported hurt, authorities said. The Daily Monitor and New Vision newspapers reported that the blast near the Munyonyo Martyrs’ Shrine in the south of the city had…
Taiwan is planning to test a home-made kamikaze sea drone later this month as it seeks to boost its naval defences in the face of growing pressure from mainland China. The vessel – developed under the code name “Kuai Chi Project” by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST), Taiwan’s top weapons developer…
More than four million people have fled Sudan since the start of its civil war in 2023, officials with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) say. “Now in its third year, the four million people is a devastating milestone in what is the world’s most damaging displacement crisis at the…
South Korea has elected a Left-wing president who has promised to strengthen ties with Kim Jong-un’s regime in the North. Lee Jae-myung, from the Left-leaning Democratic Party, won the snap vote on Tuesday, defeating Kim Moon-soo of the conservative People Power Party. The election came after months of chaos following former president Yoon Suk Yeol’s…
More than 200 inmates have escaped from a prison in Pakistan after they were moved from their cells for safety amid earthquake tremors, officials have said. Several dozen of the prisoners that broke out of the jail in Karachi were quickly recaptured, police said on Tuesday, but at least 130 are understood to remain unaccounted…
Merck has held talks over a more than $3bn acquisition of Swiss biotechnology group MoonLake Immunotherapeutics, as the US pharmaceutical company seeks to replenish its drug pipeline. The New Jersey-based drugmaker submitted a nonbinding offer for MoonLake earlier this year, valuing the business in excess of $3bn, a premium to its $2.6bn market value, according…
A new record has been set for extremely precise control over qubits, the building blocks of quantum computers. This advance could lead to quantum computers that make fewer errors – if it can be replicated at a larger scale. To manipulate or encode information into a qubit, a quantum computer can use a set-up called…
Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto and Alphabet’s Google on Monday said they would create a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups and cybercriminals, in a bid to ease confusion over the menagerie of unofficial nicknames for them. Microsoft, and CrowdStrike said they hoped to potentially bring other industry partners and the U.S. government into the effort…
Microsoft Bing announced Monday that it is introducing the Bing Video Creator to its app, which uses OpenAI’s Sora model to let users generate videos from text prompts. OpenAI, which has a long-standing partnership with Microsoft, has locked down access to Sora‘s video generation for paying customers only. Its integration in Microsoft Bing represents the…
Broadcom Inc. began shipping a new version of its data center switch chips that can boost the efficiency of AI accelerators, aiming to take a bigger role in the booming market for artificial intelligence computing. The company started delivering the Tomahawk 6 switch chips to customers over the weekend, and the product will be broadly…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday that it had launched a generative AI tool, Elsa, aimed at improving efficiency across its operations, including scientific reviews. “Today’s rollout of Elsa is ahead of schedule and under budget, thanks to the collaboration of our in-house experts across the centers,” said FDA Commissioner Marty Makary.…
The next big breakthrough in AI could be one that channels the spirit of famed scientist Albert Einstein. “The problem is that large language models [LLMs] make mistakes. And they’re always going to make mistakes, but they’re going to make fewer and fewer. At some point, they’ll make so few mistakes you can use it…
An Al Qaeda-linked jihadist group active in West Africa’s Sahel region has claimed an attack on a military base in Mali on Sunday that two sources said had killed more than 30 soldiers. In a separate attack on Monday, the group, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), said it targeted a military airport and Russian…
Flies hovered over the blackened and swollen bodies of men and boys, lying side-by-side on a piece of tarpaulin, in blood-soaked combat fatigues, amid preparations for a rushed cremation in the Tamu district of Myanmar’s Sagaing region, bordering India. Quickly arranged wooden logs formed the base of the mass pyre, with several worn-out rubber tyres…
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un administration continues to be in the limelight for its overtly controlling practices. Fresh evidence of Orwellian practices has emerged after a phone smuggled out of North Korea revealed chilling details about how the secretive dictatorship is exercising control over its people. To suppress cultural influence from South Korea and any…
Landslides and flash flooding triggered by days of torrential monsoon rains in India’s northeast have killed at least 22 people, officials said Saturday. Five people, including three from a single family, were killed on Saturday when their homes were buried in a mudslide in Assam state’s Guwahati city, an official flood bulletin said. In neighbouring…
The official death toll after deadly floods hit the Nigerian town of Mokwa on Thursday has risen to more than 200, officials say. Another 500 people are still missing in the town in the central Niger State however, local official Musa Kimboku told the BBC that rescue efforts had ceased because authorities no longer believe…
China is reshaping the global arms trade—emerging as a major weapons supplier while shedding its historic dependence on foreign imports. In recent years, Chinese-made drones, missiles, and fighter jets have been exported to 44 countries, from Pakistan and Myanmar to Nigeria and Algeria. A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) confirms…
Among the general public, generative AI’s most enthusiastic early adopters have been students. Surveys conducted a year ago revealed that nearly 90 percent of college students and more than 50 percent of high-schoolers were regularly using chatbots for schoolwork. Those numbers are certainly higher now. AI may be the most rapidly adopted educational tool since…
Last week, Google quietly released an app that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones. Called Google AI Edge Gallery, the app is available for Android and will soon come to iOS. It allows users to find, download, and run compatible models…
Two decades ago, factories in Indiana that turned rare earth metals into magnets moved production to China — just as demand for the magnets was starting to soar for everything from cars and semiconductors to fighter jets and robots. The United States is now reckoning with the cost of losing that supply chain. The Chinese…
Brain-computer-interface startup Paradromics today announced that surgeons successfully inserted the company’s brain implant into a patient and safely removed it after about 10 minutes. It’s a step toward longer trials of the device, dubbed Connexus. It’s also the latest commercial development in a growing field of companies—including Elon Musk’s Neuralink—aiming to connect people’s brains directly…
Civil servants who have used artificial intelligence tools for administrative tasks freed up two weeks a year in working time, according to a government trial that ministers said showed how the technology can achieve productivity gains across Whitehall. In the study, more than 20,000 officials used Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant over three months to help…
Infleqtion has announced a $100 million Series C funding round backed by new, existing, and strategic investors, including Glynn Capital, Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), S32, SAIC and others. Having generated almost $30 million in revenue last year and backed by a customer pipeline topping $200 million, Infleqtion will use this investment to scale its atom-based…
The struggle to be first in humanoid robots is the space race of our time, says Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas, who also says that major upgrades are coming to Apptronik’s appropriately-named Apollo robot in 2025. “It is just amazing to me to hear that there’s a hundred companies working on humanoid robots,” Cardenas told me…
Samsung is closing in on an investment in AI search startup Perplexity that would also see the Korean tech giant incorporating the AI company’s tech into its devices, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. As one of the biggest investors in the AI company’s new fundraising round, Samsung is discussing having Perplexity’s app and assistant pre-installed…
For years, when Meta launched new features for Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, teams of reviewers evaluated possible risks: Could it violate users’ privacy? Could it cause harm to minors? Could it worsen the spread of misleading or toxic content? Until recently, what are known inside Meta as privacy and integrity reviews were conducted almost entirely…
Hermeus on May 27 said its Quarterhorse Mk 1 unmanned aircraft successfully flew for the first time, a key milestone on the startup’s path to developing high-Mach and hypersonic aircraft. The May 21 flight and landing at Edwards AFB, Calif., came about five months later than the Atlanta-based company had hoped. The main goal of…
A natural stone quarry in Indonesia’s West Java province collapsed on several people who were working in it on Friday, killing at least 10 people and leaving six workers missing, officials said. More than two dozen people were trapped in the rubble when the mine in Cirebon district collapsed, local police chief Sumarni said, and…
Between September 2023 and December 2024 North Korea gave Russia over 100 ballistic missiles and as much as nine million rounds of ammunition to support various weapons systems, including artillery shells and rockets, for use in Moscow’s war against Ukraine, an 11-member international watchdog monitoring sanctions against Pyongyang said Thursday. The missiles and military support,…
ISIL (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for an attack on the Syrian army, representing the armed group’s first strike at government forces since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, according to analysts. In a statement released late on Thursday, ISIL said its fighters had planted an explosive device that struck a “vehicle of the apostate regime” in…
At least six people have been killed in a suspected drone attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a hospital in southern Sudan, the latest civilian facility targeted in the brutal civil war, officials and rights advocates have said. The Emergency Lawyers, a rights group, blamed the RSF for the attack on Friday…
At least 110 people have died in floods caused by torrential rain in central Nigeria, officials have told the BBC. The downpours lasted for several hours, said the head of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (Nsema), Abullahi Baba-Arah. He added that “surging flood water submerged and washed away over 50 residential houses with their…
Caught in the middle of Washington’s renewed visa crackdown on Chinese international students, Beijing postgraduate Lainey is anxiously waiting to resume the visa process to study a PhD at her dream school, the University of California. “We feel helpless and unable to do anything,” said the 24-year-old sociology student, who declined to give her surname…
Breaking into a market long dominated by Chinese giants, a bold new American player is shaking up the high-performance drone industry with cutting-edge innovations that it claims are about to change the game. Santa Clara-based drone company SiFly has emerged from stealth mode with ambitions to dethrone Shenzen-based DJI as the global standard in commercial…
A Canadian quantum computing start-up claims its new qubit will enable much smaller and cheaper error-free quantum computers. But getting there will be a steep challenge. To correct its own errors, a traditional computer saves duplicates of information in multiple places, a practice called redundancy. For quantum computers to achieve their own version of redundancy,…
AI dev platform Hugging Face continued its push into robotics on Thursday with the release of two new humanoid robots. The company announced a pair of open source robots, HopeJR and Reachy Mini. HopeJR is a full-size humanoid robot that has 66 actuated degrees of freedom, or 66 independent movements, including the ability to walk…
China’s biggest technology companies have begun the long and difficult process of switching their development of artificial intelligence to homegrown chips, as they contend with a dwindling stockpile of Nvidia processors and tightening US export controls. Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu are among those starting to test alternative semiconductors to meet surging AI-related internal demand and…
Meta is teaming with defense industry startup Anduril Industries to develop military products that use artificial intelligence and augmented reality, the companies announced on Thursday. Anduril said in a statement that the new products will provide “real-time battlefield intelligence” to soldiers in the field, allowing them to make decisions based on data. “This integration will…
I can’t think of any other deal that more encapsulates how Silicon Valley has changed in the past couple of years than this one, announced Thursday in a press release: Anduril and Meta are partnering to design, build, and field a range of integrated XR products that provide warfighters with enhanced perception and enable intuitive…
For Michael Frank, efficiency has always been a major preoccupation. As a student in the 1990s, he was originally interested in artificial intelligence. But once he realized how much energy the technology would use, he took his research in another direction. “I started getting interested in the physical limits of computation,” he said. “What’s the…
Serbia has annouced that it will investigate claims its companies are arming Ukraine. Serbia has annouced that a joint Russia-Serbian investigation will be launched to see if Serbian companies are arming Ukraine. This comes after Russia accussed Serbia of back-stabbing them after finding Serbian made equipment in Ukraine. Serbia’s governmnet has denied these accusations. Read…
Tanzania’s main opposition has asked the UN to declare his detention arbitrary. Lawyers for Tanzania’s main opposition leader have asked the UN to declare his detention arbitrary. The move is part of a strategy to increase international political pressue on the nation’s government. Tanzania’s government has not responded to the accusation. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tanzanian-politicians-lawyers-ask-un-declare-his-detention-arbitrary-2025-05-30/
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