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The AI Futures Project’s “AI 2027” paints a detailed and unsettling forecast for the arrival of artificial superintelligence by the end of the decade. Co-authored by AI forecasters – including ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, and others. It presents two diverging scenario pathways, “Race” and “Slowdown”, each rooted in plausible technological, geopolitical, and institutional…
Emerging technologies like generative AI and machine learning are transforming traditional conflict simulation and peacebuilding processes. By integrating these tools into wargaming and war termination modeling, analysts can generate more inclusive, cost-effective, and dynamic scenarios—reshaping how strategic decisions are made in conflict zones such as Ukraine.
The advent of artificial intelligence has correctly ushered in concerns over its abuse by hostile threat actors to leverage the technology to enhance the speed of their attacks and further advance the efficacy of their operations.
In an era defined by chaotic signals and unprecedented volatility, Steven Weber’s “Scenario Planning Amid Radical Uncertainty” (MIT Sloan Management Review, July 2025) urges decision-makers to abandon false certainty and embrace expansive scenario planning. His guidance is rooted in decades of advising governments and companies facing deeply unpredictable environments.
The term “Post Labor Economy” is used to describe the point where human labor is no longer central to production and value creation.
The many revelations from neuroscience hold promise that organizations that depend on human analysis can take action to improve the cognitive performance of their workforce.
A long running discussion among the OODA Network is how the dynamics around AI job displacement will play out. Thriving in a Post Labor Economy of AI and Automation has been a topic discussed at our annual OODAcon, many of our monthly member sessions and an ongoing thread in our Slack where real practitioners and…
The Secure World Foundation’s 2025 report on global counterspace capabilities reveals a rapidly escalating arms race in orbit, with 12 nations actively developing technologies to disrupt or destroy satellites. This comes as the U.S. accelerates its vision for a “Golden Dome for America”—a proliferated constellation of space-based interceptors discussed in detail at the April 2025…
AI-bio convergence is emerging as a geopolitical race akin to nuclear or semiconductor competition, with strategic implications for national security and the economy. At the recent SCSP AI+ Expo for National Competitiveness, leading biotech innovators explored how synthetic biology, AI-driven drug discovery, and human augmentation will transform health over the next century, predicting a future…
In a recent seminar at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Alex Tamkin of Anthropic presented findings from an analysis of over four million Claude conversations to reveal how AI is currently used in real-world economic tasks. The study identifies where and how AI tools like Claude augment or automate work by mapping AI activity to…
The global pandemic, supply chain shocks, and a geopolitical shift from East-West to North-South axes are fueling a new era of regionalism, manufacturing reshoring, and defense-driven tech innovation. This moment marks the evolution of our “Globalization Transformed” thesis, where North America is reasserting strategic sovereignty by fostering decentralized innovation ecosystems and regional production hubs.
A recent OODA Network monthly meeting underscored the strategic convergence of AI, quantum, and autonomous defense systems, driving both opportunity and risk. Adversarial AI defenses has emerged as a vital area of interest: the AI security landscape is shifting rapidly as AI becomes both a defense multiplier and an attack amplifier – which is where…
The new DoD memo on UAVs, titled “Unleashing U.S. Military Drone Dominance” marks a sweeping overhaul of U.S. military drone policy.
Dozens of kidnapped Colombia soldiers have been released. Thirty-three Colombian soldiers were released after being held for three days in a remote Amazonian village controlled by rebel factions and drug traffickers, following deadly clashes with an armed group. The soldiers were initially blocked from leaving by villagers, prompting the government to label the incident a…
Key Kurdish leaders have urged for a faster implementation of the peace plan with the PKK. Senior pro-Kurdish lawmakers in Turkey are urging faster action from a newly formed parliamentary commission overseeing the disarmament of the PKK. The lawmakers stressed that the commission must move beyond procedural debates and enact reforms to sustain momentum following…
A large scale Cholera outbreak has begun in Nigeria. A cholera outbreak in Bukkuyum district of Zamfara state, northwest Nigeria, has killed at least eight people and infected over 200 across 11 rural communities. The crisis is worsened by limited access to healthcare and insecurity, with many patients treated at home due to the absence…
At the Drone Thought Leadership Summit, hosted by the University of Virginia’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies Center for Public Safety and Justice in collaboration with Droneresponders, public safety leaders talked about how Drone as First Responder (DFR) programs are changing the way agencies respond to emergencies. One issue that is paramount in urban…
Tanzania’s electoral commission on Wednesday barred the presidential candidate of its second biggest opposition party from contesting polls in October, leaving President Samia Suluhu Hassan to face only candidates from smaller parties. The Independent National Electoral Commission approved Hassan and her running mate Emmanuel Nchimbi to run in the October 29 election after receiving their…
Australia’s intelligence agency traced the funding of hooded criminals who allegedly set fire to a Melbourne synagogue, linking the antisemitic attack to Iran, officials said, even as those charged with the crime were likely unaware Tehran was their puppet master. A 20-year-old local man, Younes Ali Younes, appeared in Melbourne’s Magistrates Court on Wednesday charged…
A passenger bus overturned in Afghanistan’s capital early Wednesday, killing at least 25 people, a Taliban official said. It happened early in the morning in the Arghandi area of Kabul. The bus was coming from southern Afghanistan with passengers from Helmand and Kandahar. Reckless driving caused the accident, which also injured 27 people, Interior Ministry…
Heavy rain caused flooding and landslides Wednesday in parts of Southeast Asia, where at least eight deaths were reported in the aftermath of a tropical storm. Flooding occurred in several northern and central provinces of Vietnam, where seven people died, one was missing and 34 were injured, state media reported. Nearly 20 centimeters (8 inches)…
Qatar announced resumption of peace talks between of the Democratic Republic government of Congo and M23 movement, during sessions that will be held between the two sides in Doha. QNA news agency quoted Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman, Majed al-Ansari, as saying in a statement at a press conference: “We received the two parties of Congo…
On a crisp April morning in Beijing earlier this year, China’s most senior military leaders gathered for a routine tree-planting ceremony that ended up providing a rare glimpse into the secretive world of power politics under President Xi Jinping. Ahead of the event, reports spread that He Weidong — the second-highest ranking uniformed officer in…
SpaceX on Tuesday launched its mammoth Starship rocket, breaking a string of explosive failed attempts earlier this year to deploy its first batch of dummy Starlink satellites and notch key developmental milestones. The more-than 400-feet rocket, critical for SpaceX’s commercial dominance and NASA’s ambitions to return astronauts to the Moon, took off from the company’s…
China’s AI industry is quietly turning to refurbished and second-hand Nvidia GPUs after fresh curbs on the company’s H20 accelerator left customers scrambling for alternatives. The H20, a cut-down Hopper-based GPU designed specifically to comply with U.S. export restrictions, was meant to keep Nvidia in the Chinese market. But the chip has been effectively sidelined…
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced Tuesday that his department will begin issuing economic data “on the blockchain” in the Trump administration’s latest overture to the crypto industry. “The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain, because you are the crypto president,” Lutnick told a nodding President Donald Trump…
“Agentic AI systems are being weaponized.” That’s one of the first lines of Anthropic’s new Threat Intelligence report, out today, which details the wide range of cases in which Claude — and likely many other leading AI agents and chatbots — are being abused. First up: “Vibe-hacking.” One sophisticated cybercrime ring that Anthropic says it…
Plaud, the company behind an AI wearable that actually works, is launching an upgraded version of its credit card-sized note-taking device. Just like its Plaud Note predecessor, the Plaud Note Pro uses AI to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations, but it now comes with two additional microphones that allow it to pick up audio…
Scientists have developed a new type of artificial intelligence (AI) model that can reason differently from most large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, resulting in much better performance in key benchmarks. The new reasoning AI, called a hierarchical reasoning model (HRM), is inspired by the hierarchical and multi-timescale processing in the human brain — the…
Japan has switched on the first quantum computer that has been designed and built with components from the country. The system is now ready to take on workloads from its base at the University of Osaka’s Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology (QIQB). The new system, which went live on July 28, replaces all…
Computer scientists at Princeton are working to bring virtual reality into the physical world, with the potential to enhance a variety of experiences, including remote collaboration, education, entertainment and gaming. Someday virtual and augmented reality technology will likely be commonplace, said Parastoo Abtahi, assistant professor of computer science. It will be important that users of…
It’s no secret by now, as investors await an earnings report on Wednesday by the chip behemoth Nvidia, that optimism around the windfall that artificial intelligence may generate is pumping up the stock market.But in recent months, it has also become clear that A.I. spending is lifting the real economy, too. It’s not because of…
Haitian police have regained control of a central telecoms center. Haitian police have announced that they were able to regain control over a major telecoms center. The center had been taken over by gangs earlier this summer. The move is being celebrated as a strong first operation by the country’s new police. The government has…
Pakistan has evacuated several areas as India has released water into flood plains. Pakistan has been forced to carry out large scale evacuations after several rivers have flooded their banks. This was caused by India releasing water that had been held by dams. The move by India comes as relations between the country’s remain tense…
Sanctions against Iran are set to resume after talks failed. Talks between European and Iranian diplomats have failed to produce an agreement. The failure of the parties mean that UN sanctions will resume. These sanctions have the potential to severely cripple Iran’s economy and worsen its already dire water crisis. Read more: https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-sanctions-snapback-uk-germany-france-1499eb87eccf8cb1a53425d7587941e9
France’s Prime Minister has proposed a budget to be voted on. France’s Prime Minster has announced that the budget will be voted on in September. It is highly expected that the budget will not be approved and a no confidence vote will be considered. Should the no confidence vote pass, President Macron will be forced…
Auchan has confirmed that it was the victim of a data breach. French retail giant Auchan has confirmed a data breach affecting hundreds of thousands of customers. The company has confirmed that no banking information, passwords, or PINs were exposed in the incident. Auchan has notified the French data protection authority and said that they…
Several Salesforce customers have been targeted in a data theft campaign. A widespread data theft campaign has targeted hundreds of Salesforce customers, including major companies like Google, Adidas, Cisco, and Louis Vuitton. The attacks were attributed to threat actor UNC6040, which often impersonates the ShinyHunters cybercrime gang. Google confirmed that its Salesforce instance was compromised,…
Nevada government agencies have been shutdown following a cyber attack. A cyberattack disrupted Nevada’s state government systems, forcing the closure of state offices on Monday and Tuesday The incident impacted websites and phone lines, prompting a criminal investigation and coordinated recovery efforts with federal and local partners. While the exact nature of the attack remains…
Healthcare Services Group has disclosed that it was the victim of a data breach. Healthcare Services Group experienced a significant data breach in 2024 that exposed the personal information of approximately 624,000 individuals. The compromised data included names, Social Security numbers, and health insurance details, raising concerns about identity theft and fraud. The company has…
NVIDIA today announced general availability of its Jetson AGX Thor developer kit and production modules for robotics and physical AI applications. With demand growing for robots capable of operating in unstructured environments and interacting safely with people, NVIDIA is positioning Thor as the onboard computer to make that happen. NVIDIA said several of the world’s…
Two men were publicly flogged in Indonesia’s conservative province of Aceh on Tuesday, August 26, after a Sharia court found them guilty of engaging in gay sex. Each man received 76 lashes with a rattan stick during the public caning. The initial sentence of 80 lashes was reduced for both men, accounting for the four…
The Nigerian Air Force has rescued 76 kidnap victims, including women and children, after a precision air strike on a bandit stronghold in northwest Katsina State, authorities said on Saturday. The operation, targeting Pauwa Hill in Kankara Local Government Area, was part of a manhunt for a gang leader named Babaro who has been linked…
Typhoon Kajiki killed at least three people and injured 10 others in Vietnam, authorities said on Tuesday as they warned that heavy rains could cause flooding and landslides. The storm damaged nearly 7,000 homes, inundated 28,800 hectares of rice plantings and felled 18,000 trees, the government said in a statement. It also brought down 331…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accused Iran of organizing two antisemitic attacks in Australia and said the country was cutting off diplomatic relations with Tehran in response on Tuesday. The Australian Security Intelligence Organization, or ASIO, concluded that Iran had directed arson attacks on the Lewis Continental Kitchen, a kosher food company in Sydney,…
Japan has lodged a protest accusing China of carrying out the “unilateral development” of gas fields in disputed waters in the East China Sea. In a statement late on Monday, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had detected the construction of “a new structure” in waters west of the median line between the countries.…
Botswana’s President Duma Boko declared a public health emergency on Monday, saying the national medical supply chain had failed, leaving hospitals and clinics short of medicine and other vital stock. Boko said the military would oversee an emergency distribution drive, and the first trucks would leave the capital Gaborone and head to remote areas by…
A team of drone operators joined climbers and guides at Everest Base Camp this climbing season, armed with heavy-duty drones to help clear rubbish from the world’s highest peak. Tons of trash—from empty cans and gas canisters, to bottles, plastic and discarded climbing gear—have earned once-pristine Everest the grim nickname of the “highest dumpster in…
According to the company, the system has already produced several hundred kWh, which were used to power electric heaters at its quayside hub. “We are generating more than anticipated with our numeric models – a breakthrough in marine energy,” the company said. “After months of anticipation, our technology has now been deployed for testing in…
Two of Japan’s largest media groups are suing artificial intelligence search engine Perplexity over alleged copyright infringement, joining a growing list of news publishers taking legal action against AI companies using their content. Japanese media group Nikkei, which owns the Financial Times, and the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said in statements on Tuesday that they had…
Google is upgrading its Gemini chatbot with a new AI image model that gives users finer control over editing photos, a step meant to catch up with OpenAI’s popular image tools and draw users from ChatGPT. The update, called Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, rolls out starting Tuesday to all users in the Gemini app, as…
IBM and AMD have agreed to collaborate on quantum computing, creating a powerful tech duo amid growing optimism that the technology will have real-world implications sooner rather than later. Quantum computing could have huge implications for everything from drug discovery, to financial modeling, to AI development. IBM and AMD said Tuesday that they’re teaming up to…
Nvidia stock is trading higher on Monday as it rolled out its Jetson AGX Thor developer kit and production modules, a next-generation robotics platform built to power millions of robots, including humanoids, with advanced AI capabilities. The Blackwell GPU–powered system offers record-breaking performance and efficiency, reinforcing Nvidia’s dominance in AI infrastructure as analysts project stronger…
The beauty of being in the rather lonely position of supporting the U.S. government taking an equity stake in Intel is that I don’t have to steelman the case about it being a bad idea. Scott Lincicome, for example, had a good Twitter thread and Washington Post column explaining why this is a terrible idea.…
AI is dimming job prospects for less-experienced workers, according to a first-of-its-kind Stanford study. There’s been significant anecdotal evidence of an AI-related slowdown in hiring for certain jobs, but new data shows a real and measurable impact for entry-level workers. Using ADP payroll data, Stanford researchers found that employment for younger workers (ages 22–25) in…
RSF attacks kill civilians in ongoing Darfur campaign Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces killed at least 13 people, mostly women and children, in a road attack near el-Fasher on Sunday. The paramilitary group also shelled a hospital the previous day, wounding seven people, including a child and a pregnant woman. These attacks represent part of RSF’s…
Libyan coast guard fires on humanitarian rescue ship Libya’s coast guard shot at a European rescue vessel for 15-20 minutes while it searched for migrants in distress, threatening to “kill you all” if the ship didn’t leave international waters. The Ocean Viking sustained significant damage but no casualties after rescuing 87 people from two migrant…
Students clash with police over parliament housing allowances Riot police fired tear gas at thousands of students who threw stones while trying to reach Indonesia’s Parliament to protest lawmakers’ monthly housing allowances of $3,075. The allowance, which equals about 20 times the minimum wage in poor areas, has sparked outrage among demonstrators who view it…
India warns Pakistan of potential cross-border flooding India alerted Pakistan about possible flooding from heavy monsoon rains through diplomatic channels, marking the first official contact between the nuclear rivals in months. The warning came on “humanitarian grounds” rather than through the usual Indus Waters Commission, as India suspended the 1960 water treaty following the April…
Single-bit flip attack threatens AI system security Researchers at George Mason University demonstrated how attackers can alter AI behavior by flipping just one bit in neural network weights, potentially causing autonomous vehicles to misread stop signs or facial recognition systems to misidentify users. The “OneFlip” attack utilizes Rowhammer techniques to target specific memory locations and…
Phishing scams drain millions from crypto wallets Blockchain analysts identified three major phishing attacks over the weekend that cost victims approximately $3 million in cryptocurrency and NFTs. The largest theft netted criminals $1.54 million after a victim signed malicious batch transactions disguised as legitimate token operations, while another attack resulted in $1 million losses through…
Insurance giant reports vendor breach affecting million-plus customers Farmers Insurance is notifying over 1.1 million customers that their personal information was exposed in a May cyberattack targeting a third-party vendor’s database. The breach compromised names, addresses, birth dates, driver’s license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers for affected customers. Farmers detected the unauthorized access on…
Television networks breached during independence celebrations Pro-Ukrainian hackers infiltrated Russia’s third-largest TV provider on Sunday, broadcasting three hours of battlefield footage across 116 channels to approximately 50,000 households. The attack, allegedly carried out by Belarusian Cyber-Partisans, coincided with Ukraine’s Independence Day and showed footage of Russia’s fuel crisis, water shortages, and military losses. Ukrainian military…
Chinese customs screened 600 million people at international ports for infectious diseases over the past five years, officials said on Monday, while pledging to refine containment protocols that became a hallmark of Beijing’s zero-COVID policy. Customs officials detected more than 180,000 cases of infectious disease at China’s borders during that time, Zhao Zenglian, deputy director…
Sweden said on Aug 25 it has signed a deal to sell four Gripen fighter jets produced by Saab to Thailand. The deal “strengthens the long-term development opportunities for Swedish warplanes”, Swedish Defence Materiel Administration director-general Mikael Granholm said in a statement. Saab said in a separate statement that the value of the order, which…
Militants attacked a security forces camp in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, sparking an hours-long gunbattle that left at least three officers and one assailant dead, police said. Seventeen security personnel were wounded in the assault in Hangu, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to local police official Nazar Mohammad. He said security forces quickly…
Riot police shot multiple rounds of tear gas at thousands of stone-throwing students who attempted to reach Parliament in Indonesia ‘s capital to protest the lavish allowances of parliament members. The demonstrators are enraged by recent reports that 580 members of the House of Representatives had been receiving a housing allowance of 50 million rupiah…
Myanmar’s ruling military junta said on Sunday a colonial-era bridge that was once the world’s highest railway trestle had been “bombed and destroyed” by anti-coup armed groups. A civil war has consumed Myanmar since a 2021 coup deposed the civilian government, with the military battling a myriad of pro-democracy guerrillas and ethnic armed organisations. Junta…
Nigeria’s air force said it killed at least 35 Islamic fighters in air strikes near the Cameroon border on Saturday, following intelligence that the group was planning an attack on ground troops. The strikes targeted four assembly points, air force spokesperson Ehimen Ejodame said in a statement, adding that communication was later restored with troops…
“You don’t have the cards,” Donald Trump famously remarked to Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier this year. The US and Ukrainian presidents are getting on better these days. But Trump’s brutally realist approach to international relations remains. It is all a trial of strength. Who has the best cards? The Trump administration now seems to have realised…
Texas-based defense startup Saronic Technologies will produce multiple batches of autonomous maritime drones for the U.S. Navy by mid-2031 under an other transaction agreement (OTA) worth more than $392 million, according to officials and public contracting documents viewed by DefenseScoop. Details are sparse regarding the specific features, types and quantities of unmanned vessels Saronic will…
Brave and Guardio have revealed serious vulnerabilities in the Comet AI browser that Perplexity released in July. Perplexity said that Comet “transforms how businesses interact with the internet” by “combining enterprise-grade security, powerful AI capabilities, and intuitive user experiences.” That alone should have been enough to make users wary about the browser’s security. Highlighting “enterprise-grade…
PDS Biotechnology Corporation has announced promising final survival data from its VERSATILE-002 Phase 2 clinical trial, which evaluated the combination of its immunotherapy PDS0101 (Versamune® HPV) and pembrolizumab (Keytruda®) in patients with HPV16-positive recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell cancer. The trial reported a median overall survival of 39.3 months for patients with…
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