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Several news outlets reported that the United States was putting a pause on Department of Defense cyber operations against Russia.
The modern threat landscape demands immediate action in revolutionizing how organizations approach security, risk assessment, and strategic planning. The implementation of hybrid AI-human red teams isn’t just an evolution in organizational resilience — it’s an imperative for survival in today’s rapidly changing environment. The Urgent Challenge Before Us Organizations face a perfect storm of vulnerabilities in their traditional…
The debate over Bitcoin’s role in corporate treasury strategy has intensified, with proponents touting it as a hedge against inflation and detractors warning of its extreme volatility and regulatory uncertainties.
For years DoD has struggled to avoid the temptation of buying software the way they buy aircraft carriers. Leaders have long recognized that it is more efficient, effective and overall smarter to buy commercial software instead of developing it in house or running inefficient, wasteful large scale development contracts to build custom solutions. And when…
This week’s member only OODA network dispatch covers pivotal developments across technology, national security, and cybersecurity.
No one outside of the DoD inner circle and Cyber Command leadership will know the reality of what commands were given by the SecDef to Cyber Command. That is by design
This post is designed to inform OODA network members who could not attend our February member meeting. Focus of the session was the critical importance of Open Source AI as a national security imperative.
Like any modern weapon, there are certain advantages to using cyber attacks as a tactical\first strike weapon that could occur near tandemly with a kinetic assault, achieving surprise while inspiring uncertainty in both civilian and military audiences, providing critical momentum to the aggressor.
Domestic U.S. and international quantum technology infrastructure has been dramatically built out in the last seven years – since the passage of the initial Quantum Initiative Act in 2018 – with commitments to cryptography, post-quantum crypto agility, quantum networking and computing that will continue to reshape national security and federal operations.
Late last week, the U.S. government enacted significant changes in its cryptocurrency regulations as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dropped lawsuits against major crypto firms.
The future of advanced nuclear energy hinges on overcoming critical economic, regulatory, and supply chain barriers while leveraging government incentives and private-sector investment. Various reports from and workshops held by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outline the pathways to achieving commercial liftoff for new nuclear technologies, detailing the technological, financial, and policy…
AI and the rise of AGI has been a consistent topic examined by the experts of the OODA network, including topics related to national security. These are also recurring thematics at OODAcon, so the recent RAND report Artificial General Intelligence’s (AGI) Five Hard National Security Problems” caught our eye.
The Black Sea has become a critical flashpoint in Euro-Atlantic security, with Russia leveraging the region as a strategic launchpad while the U.S. recalibrates its stance, leaving key allies grappling with leadership gaps and mounting hybrid warfare threats.
IT providers selling software to the government should re evaluate their software licensing and pricing strategies for the federal government. Doing so now can aid government efforts to serve hard missions while cutting waste and give you a leg up on the competition. Here is what I recommend:
North Korea’s Lazarus Group APT has executed the largest crypto heist in history, stealing over $1.5 billion from Bybit, a centralized crypto exchange. The attack, which took control of Bybit’s cold wallet holding Ethereum (ETH), has triggered a cascade of market reactions – once again putting the spotlight on cybersecurity in the digital asset space…
Earlier this year, I heard that Microsoft engineers were preparing server capacity for OpenAI’s next-generation GPT-5 model, arriving as soon as late May. After some additional testing and delays, sources familiar with OpenAI’s plans tell me that GPT-5 is now expected to launch as early as next month. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently revealed on…
Aidoc, an AI company that helps medical teams make real-time clinical decisions, has raised $150 million at a valuation higher than its previous round, bringing its total funding to $370 million to date. The latest funding round marks a significant milestone for the company, with NVentures, NVIDIA’s investment arm, joining as an investor for the…
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, has a vision of Copilot that involves it being so highly personalized that “it will age.” Microsoft has been increasingly pushing Copilot to be a personalized AI assistant, with a big redesign last year that included a conversational voice mode. Now, Suleyman’s Microsoft AI team is launching a new Copilot…
In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks, photons — fundamental particles of light — hold intriguing possibilities as fast carriers of information at room temperature. Photons are typically controlled and coaxed into quantum states via waveguides on extended microchips, or through bulky devices built from lenses, mirrors, and beam splitters. The photons become…
Unitree Robotics, which is gearing up for an initial public offering (IPO), unveiled its R1 humanoid model priced from 39,999 yuan (US$5,900), making it affordable for individual developers and consumers. Marketed as “born for sport”, the R1 was seen doing a cartwheel, walking on its “hands”, throwing a punch, lying down then standing up, and…
AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own. Makers of these so-called “vibe-coding” tools are a hot commodity at the moment, with startups like Lovable and Cursor fending off buyers and investors keen to tap a hot…
Ever since the discovery of alchemy, or since humans thought gold was a precious object, a worldwide quest to turn common elements into the yellow metal has been ongoing. Folklore and fables sing praises of humans who went on this quest and those who received such blessings. No such claims have yet stood the test…
The International Criminal Court has found Central African Republic rebels guilty. The International Criminal Court has found the leads of a Central African Republic rebel guilty of war crimes. The leaders were convicted based on charges related to their groups attacks against Muslim communities in the Central African Republic. Several other trials and investigations related…
Clashes between Thailand and Cambodia have forced thousands of civilians to flee their homes. The escalation of violence between Thailand and Cambodia has caused a mass exodus of civilians. The long standing border dispute has once again become an active zone of conflict between the two countries. International organizations have called for an immediate ceasefire.…
France will official recognize Palestine as a state. French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will officially recognize Palestine as a state later this year. The surprise announcement comes as European countries have grown increasingly frustrated with Israel’s lack of action on providing aid to those in Gaza. The decision will not have any…
The Philippine Supreme Court has overturned the Vice President’s impeachment. The Philippine Supreme Court has ruled that the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte violated the constitution. They ruled that even thought the House of Representative only voted on one of the proposed impeachments, it still violated the constitution by considering more than one in…
Cybercriminals have begun to integrate AI into the development of malware. Cybercriminals have begun to make use of AI in the development of malware. The Koske Linux Malware has many signs that LLMs were used to create large parts of the malware’s code according to researchers. There are concerns that the use of AI could…
No patch will be deployed for an LG remote camera hacking flaw. After being notified of a vulnerability that allows for some LG cameras to be remotely hacked, the company has said it will not develop a patch as those products have reached end of life. The attack uses an authenticator bypass protocol to infiltrate…
A Chinese hacking group has carried out a large scale campaign to breach isolated environments. The Chinese hacking group known as Fire Ant has carried out a massive campaign to breach VMware and F5 products. After breaching a product, the group has then moved to establish deeply embedded programs to carry out espionage on targets.…
A UK student was arrested for selling phishing kits. A student in the UK was arrested for selling thousands of phishing kits. The kits impersonated major companies and charities around the world and allow him to steal millions of dollars. He was able to sell the kits to other individuals through a Telegram channel. Read…
Hadrian plans to establish a large-scale manufacturing and software hub for the defense manufacturing startup. Called Factory 3 (F3), it will be at The Cubes in Mesa, Arizona. The 270,000-square-foot facility represents a $200 million investment, which will support raw materials to complete mission-critical systems. Expected to be fully operational in early 2026, the facility…
Armed clashes broke out Thursday between Thailand and Cambodia in long-disputed border areas, rapidly escalating months-long tensions. The fighting included gunfire exchanges and shelling and rocket fire, which Thai authorities said killed at least nine Thai civilians and injured 14 others in three provinces. Thailand responded with air strikes. It was the second armed confrontation…
People in a wooden boat opened fire on a Comoros-flagged livestock carrier in the Red Sea near Yemen on Thursday, and the vessel was detained by the Yemeni Coast Guard, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO). A maritime security official in the Yemeni government told Reuters the vessel was released after being…
Heavy rains triggered by tropical storm Wipha have caused severe flooding in the central Vietnamese province of Nghe An, killing at least three people and leaving one more missing. With a long coastline facing the South China Sea, Vietnam is prone to typhoons that often cause deadly floods and mudslides. Wipha is the first major…
Iran has said it warned a United States Navy destroyer to change course as it approached Iranian territorial waters in the Gulf of Oman, but the US has claimed the confrontation was “professional” and had “no impact” on its naval mission. Iranian state media published video and images of Wednesday’s incident – the first direct…
At least six people were killed and dozens injured in an explosion in northern Syria’s Idlib province, officials said Thursday. There was no official statement on the cause of the blast. The U.K.-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the explosion took place in an ammunition depot. The Syrian Civil Defense, also…
Six students from a university in China drowned Wednesday after falling into a flotation tank while visiting a mine in the country’s Inner Mongolia region. The students from Northeastern University in Liaoning province were observing the flotation process when a grid plate they were standing on suddenly gave way, causing them to fall into the…
Thailand launched airstrikes on Cambodia on Thursday, marking a sharp escalation in a border dispute that is racking up fatalities, according to military officials. Fighting between the two neighboring countries has occurred intermittently for decades, but tensions began to climb last month after a Cambodian soldier was killed in a skirmish. After Thai solders were…
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared an update on the adoption of consumer-facing AI apps and features, including Google Search’s AI Overviews, Gemini, and AI Mode. On the company’s Q2 2025 call with investors, Pichai shared that AI Overviews — a Google Search feature offering an AI summary of search results available in 200…
Cognition, maker of the generative coding assistant Devin, is in talks to raise north of $300 million, valuing the AI startup at $10 billion, according to five people familiar with the deal. Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures are both involved in the deal, the people said. The deal would more than double Cognition’s valuation, only…
In an unprecedented show of China’s advanced civilian drone technology, a swarm of heavy-lift unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has carried 180 tonnes of construction materials up a remote mountain in the country’s southwest, according to state media. State broadcaster CCTV reported last Thursday that the aerial operation had taken place in May at a solar…
Tesla is speeding toward a head-on collision with the realities of the auto industry. Amid protests over CEO Elon Musk’s involvement with President Donald Trump’s administration, not to mention Tesla’s stagnant model line and obsolete technology, the company’s revenue for the first quarter of 2025 slid 9% year over year to $19.34 billion while global…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has sealed a deal to bring another company to his Chicago quantum computing campus after investments from PsiQuantum Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. Infleqtion, a Colorado-based startup which recently raised $100 million, said it will build a utility-scale quantum computer as part of a $50 million, four-year public-private partnership with…
At least $1bn worth of Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence processors were shipped to China in the three months after Donald Trump tightened chip export controls, exposing the limits of Washington’s efforts to restrain Beijing’s high-tech ambitions. A Financial Times analysis of dozens of sales contracts, company filings and multiple people with direct knowledge of the…
Walmart is overhauling its AI agent strategy as it aims to simplify the user experience. Agents refer to artificial intelligence tools that can independently take some action on behalf of a user, and Walmart in recent months has built dozens. Maybe too many, since they were typically accessed through different interfaces in different systems, and…
Ultra-Orthodox jews blocked a highway to protest the expansion of the draft. Ultra-Orthodox jews blocked a major highway in Jerusalem to protest changes to the Israeli draft. The government recently ended the exemption from the draft that had been in place for certain Ultra-Orthodox jews have enjoyed for decades. The decision has disrupted the governing…
The International Court of Justice has ruled that states have a duty to address climate change. The International Court of Justice has ruled that member states have a duty to address climate change. They also ruled that private companies could be responsible for paying reparations for environmental damage they caused. The Court’s unanimous opinion came…
Thai and Cambodian soldiers have exchange fire. Thai and Cambodian soldiers have exchange fire near the disputed border. This is the latest incident in a long standing border dispute that reignited earlier this year. The dispute has already lead to the collapse of the Thai government. Read more: http://Thai and Cambodian soldiers fire at each…
Large scale protests have broken out across Ukraine due to a new law being passed. Large scale protests have broken out across Ukraine due to a new law being passed which has targeted anti-corruption agencies. The law greatly reduces their independence and is seen as a major step back for the country. The European Union…
Researchers have found the first trojan which abuses Microsoft’s UIA. Researchers have found the first trojan which abuses Microsoft’s UIA. The Coyote trojan has primally been found in Latin America and has been used to target banks and cryptocurrency companies. The researchers found that the exploits used by Coyote can also be turned on consumers…
The full scope of the ToolSheel attack has been made public. The ToolShell attack which was disclosed by Microsoft has only grown in scope since it was first discovered. Initial attempts to mitigate and patch the breach have failed and additional victims have been discovered. Victims include major companies along with dozens of federal and…
France has announced the arrest of a major cybercrime forum leader. France has announced that law enforcement in Ukraine have arrested the leader of the cybercrime forum XSS. XSS is a Russian language forum and its members are believed to be responsible for millions of dollars of theft. The forum has been a key place…
The UK government has announced a new policy for dealing with ransomware. The UK government has announced that it will adopt a policy banning the payment of ransoms after cyber attacks. The government has said that it hopes that the new policy will make ransomware attacks against the UK unprofitable. Critics claim that the policy…
This review of Pillar I of the AI action plan is designed to inform OODA network members on actions to enable you to move fast to take advantage of new opportunities flowing from the new AI action plan.
This review of Pillar II of the AI action plan is designed to inform OODA network members on actions to enable you to move fast to take advantage of new opportunities flowing from the new AI action plan.
This review of Pillar III of the AI action plan is designed to inform OODA network members on actions to enable you to move fast to take advantage of new opportunities flowing from the new AI action plan.
Veracode, a global leader in application risk management, today announced a partnership with leading cloud security provider, Wiz, joining the Wiz Integration (WIN) platform. The alliance enhances WIN by bringing the power of Veracode Risk Manager (VRM) to the partner ecosystem, enabling customers to seamlessly integrate Wiz and Veracode solutions into their existing workflows. The…
An American citizen from Oklahoma was among eight men, all family members, rounded up and killed in an execution-style attack during the sectarian violence that flared in Syria last week. Hosam Saraya, a 35-year-old Syrian-American, was identified by two relatives and a friend as one of eight men whose killing was captured on a video…
Thailand said Wednesday it is closing border crossings with Cambodia from northeastern provinces, as well as withdrawing its ambassador from Cambodia and expelling Cambodia’s ambassador, following a landmine incident in which a Thai soldier lost a leg. A Thai Army statement said five soldiers were wounded when one of them stepped on a land mine…
China is “clearly” trying to interfere in Taiwan’s democracy and it is up to Taiwan’s people to decide who should be removed from or stay in office, the island’s government said on Wednesday ahead of a recall vote for around one-fifth of lawmakers. On Saturday, Taiwan voters will decide on the fate of 24 lawmakers…
Sudan’s oil-rich Kordofan region has turned into a major front line in the war between the army and rival paramilitary forces, as both sides try to gain the upper-hand in a conflict that has devastated the vast African state for more than two years. Attacks that killed hundreds of civilians earlier this month have shifted…
McKinsey has stopped its China business from undertaking consultancy work related to generative artificial intelligence amid geopolitical tensions, excluding it from one of the most potentially lucrative markets for consultants in the country. The US firm instructed its mainland Chinese operation to refrain from projects deploying generative AI in recent months, according to two people…
China has broken ground on what it says will be the world’s largest hydropower project, a $170 billion feat capable of generating enough electricity each year to power Britain. The scheme dwarfs the mighty Three Gorges Dam, currently the world’s largest, and Chinese construction and engineering stocks surged after Premier Li Qiang unveiled it on…
OpenAI and Anthropic continue to lead a fundraising bonanza in artificial intelligence, raising historic rounds and stratospheric valuations. But when it comes to finding AI exits for venture firms, the market looks a lot different. AI startups raised $104.3 billion in the U.S. in the first half of this year, nearly matching the $104.4 billion…
Amazon has acquired the AI wearables startup Bee, according to a LinkedIn post by Bee co-founder Maria de Lourdes Zollo. Amazon confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch but noted that the deal has not yet closed. Bee, which raised $7 million last year, makes both a stand-alone Fitbit-like bracelet (which retails for $49.99, plus a $19-per-month…
The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the US by loosening regulations and expanding energy supply for data centers under new guidelines that also urged the federal government to withhold funding from states determined to have burdensome regulations on the emerging technology. The so-called AI Action Plan, released by the White House…
The prototype looks like a giant rectangular wristwatch. But it doesn’t tell the time: It lets you control a computer from across the room simply by moving your hand. With a gentle turn of the wrist, you can push a cursor across your laptop screen. If you tap your thumb against your forefinger, you can…
Investment bank Morgan Stanley is predicting an “adoption push” for humanoid robots in China. This could see the central government offering end-user subsidies to encourage their on-the-ground usage during the second half of this year, the South China Morning Post reports. In a report published Tuesday, the bank said “downstream adoption” would be the robotics…
For Gundbert Scherf – the co-founder of Germany’s Helsing, Europe’s most valuable defence start-up – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed everything. Scherf had to fight hard to attract investment after starting his company – which produces military strike drones and battlefield AI – four years ago. Now, that’s the least of his problems. The Munich-based…
Alibaba Group announced on Wednesday the launch of Qwen3-Coder, an open-source artificial intelligence model for software development that the Chinese e-commerce giant described as its most advanced coding tool to date. The launch comes amid intensifying competition among Chinese technology companies in the global AI development race, with firms on both sides of the Pacific…
Amazon is shuttering its research lab in Shanghai focused on artificial intelligence development, the latest belt-tightening move by the e-commerce and cloud computing giant. Wang Minjie, an applied scientist at the lab, wrote in a WeChat post earlier this week that Amazon disbanded the team due to “strategic adjustments amid U.S.-China tensions.” Amazon spokesperson Brad…
Poland’s cabinet has been reshaped following decline in government approval. Poland’s Prime Minister has announced that he has reorganized the cabinet. The move comes after a defeat in June to the opposition party Presidential candidate and worsening polls. The governing coalition has also seen increased in fighting in recent week and it is hoped this…
South Africa has approved its budget. South Africa’s parliament has approved the final piece of budget legislation. The budget had been a major piece of contention between the governing coalition. After months of fighting, the coalition was able to reach a deal which many hope means that the coalition will be able to continue governing.…
Brazil has moved to join South Africa’s case against Israel. Brazil has announced that it will join South Africa’s case against Israel. The case argues that Israel is committing genocide through its actions in Gaza. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-join-south-africas-gaza-genocide-case-against-israel-icj-2025-07-23/
Eight members of Imran Khan’s party have been jailed. Eight members of Imran Khan’s party have been jailed for their role in 2023 riots. This marks the latest move in a long running conflict between the current government and Imran Khan and his supporters. Six other individuals charged with the same crime were acquitted during…
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