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As announced by the State Department at the end of 2023: “As a result of Russia’s unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine, the Tallinn Mechanism, hereafter referred to as “the Mechanism,” aims to coordinate and facilitate civilian cyber capacity building to help Ukraine uphold its fundamental right to self-defense in cyberspace and address longer-term cyber…
The final OODA Network Member Meeting of 2023 was held on Friday December 15, 2023. The OODA Network was joined at the meeting by Mike Studeman(Rear Admiral, USN ret) to help the OODA Network members think through developments with China. China is a large and complicated country which makes for a large and complex domain…
Recent reporting reveals that both state and non state cyber actors are actively targeting critical infrastructures with impunity. What does this mean for the future?
Once again, 2023 was marked by security professionals reacting to threats, incidents, and vulnerabilities of a constant, unrelenting frequency, volume, and scale. Crypto continued its”desctruction destruction” – while many remain bullish on the potential of the underlying blockchain technology. And new cybersecurity regulatory frameworks emerged as CISA moved from ‘partner’ to ‘regulatory enforcer’ [with] a…
The Federal Government continues to teeter on the brink of constitutional crisis and threats of violence from foreign and domestic actors – while showing really positive signs of innovation and thoughtful regulation and engagement on exponential technologies like quantum science, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology (including ongoing private sector interest and investment in (and the establishment…
In this era of global polycrisis, over the course of 2023 leaders were also reacting to the major macro economic trend of the last thirty years – the fundamental driver of the tetonic shifts in geopolitics and deep inside the economies of nation-states – which is that the BRICs global share of GDP May Overtake…
We started the OODAcast as a way of highlighting insights and lessons learned from leaders and decision-makers in the OODA Network including former intelligence community leaders and operators. In 2023 the video version of the OODAcast grew to 2100 subscribers on YouTube. Our 242 videos have generated 260,000 views, half of which were in 2023. Find…
The following list is comprised of the Top 10 OODA Loop Original Analysis posts for 2023 as determined by the number of page views for each article.
The following list is comprised of the Top 10 OODA Loop News Briefs of 2023 as determined by the number of page views for each article.
It has been another interesting and dynamic year on the security and intelligence front and OODA Loop was there to cover it all. The following list is comprised of the Top 10 Sensemaking and Member Resources Pages of 2023 as determined by the number of page views for each page. We also included posts that…
OODAcon 2023 brought together leaders, experts, and practitioners to address the challenges and opportunities presented by rapid technological advancements. OODA CEO Matt Devost’s “Welcome and Scene Setting” opening remarks at OODAcon 2023 focused on the theme of disruptive innovation and the current state of technology – providing a broad overview of the OODAcon 2023 themes…
OODAcon 2023: Links to Event Summary and Imperatives For Action and Session Summaries
All indications are that we are entering a new age of exploration and human expansion into space. Explore the new national security and economic realities of this new space rush in this OODAcon 2023 Closing Keynote conversation between OODA CTO Bob Gourley and the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of the US Space Force, Lisa…
The annual OODA Global Risk Briefing was the penultimate session at OODAcon 2023. Jen Hoar spoke with Johnny Sawyer about the strategic prism business leaders need to apply to the geopolitical risk environment.
From Amazon warehouses to military conflict in Ukraine we have become increasingly dependent on automated and autonomous platforms. This OODAcon 2023 session explored the current state of the field with a specific focus on the impact to national and economic security.
Last week, I spoke with two US Marines who spent much of last year deployed in the Pacific, conducting training exercises from South Korea to the Philippines. Both were responsible for analyzing surveillance to warn their superiors about possible threats to the unit. But this deployment was unique: For the first time, they were using…
OpenAI on Monday launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1. Yes, “4.1” — as if the company’s nomenclature wasn’t confusing enough already. There’s GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, all of which OpenAI says “excel” at coding and instruction following. Available through OpenAI’s API but not ChatGPT, the multimodal models have a 1-million-token context…
A US satellite startup will launch the first communications satellite dedicated to Taiwan, strengthening the self-ruled democracy’s resilience against possible Chinese attempts to impose an information blackout in the event of an invasion. Astranis Space Technologies Corp. will partner with Taiwan’s biggest telecommunications company Chunghwa Telecom Co. to dedicate a MicroGEO satellite to the island,…
In the wake of criticism over the underwhelming performance of its AI products, especially in areas like notification summaries, Apple on Monday detailed how it is trying to improve its AI models by analyzing user data privately with the aid of synthetic data. Using an approach called “differential privacy,” the company said it would first…
Quantum professionals around the world overwhelmingly agree that quantum utility will arrive within the next decade, according to a new survey by Economist Impact. Quantum utility refers to the point at which quantum computers provide practical advantages over classical computers in solving specific real-world problems. A whopping 83% of the survey’s respondents think that moment…
Players from all over the world are eager to take the lead in humanoid robotics. No one country is completely dominant in this 21st century “space race”. However, China and the United States are undoubtedly in the first tier. “In the US, the focus is on staying at the forefront of technology and exploring unknown…
Enterprise retrieval augmented generation (RAG) remains integral to the current agentic AI craze. Taking advantage of the continued interest in agents, Cohere released the latest version of its embeddings model with longer context windows and more multimodality. Cohere’s Embed 4 builds on the multimodal updates of Embed 3 and adds more capabilities around unstructured data.…
On Monday, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salaf visited Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus in his first official visit to Syria. The trip was an effort to renew the relationship between the two countries, which has for long been tense. Before former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was ousted by opposition forces, Syria was accused of…
The presidential election of Gabon, a Central African nation, was won by Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema. Nguema previously took power in the country after staging a coup in 2023, and won over 90 percent of the votes in the recent election. He will now govern the country for the next seven years. The election represents…
Qatar and Egypt are expressing “grave concern” about the recent escalation of death and violence in the Gaza Strip. The two countries are renewing their stress over efforts to achieve a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel to end the fighting. They both support an Arab-backed Gaza reconstruction plan, clashing with U.S. and Israel calls to…
Daniel Naboa has secured re-election in Ecuador’s presidential election on Sunday. He won the race by a large margin, demonstrating Ecuadorian voters’ faith in his ability to tackle the country’s security crisis. Naboa defeated Luisa González in the election, who said she would not recognize the race’s results. Both candidates had accused the other of…
Chinese hacker groups are continuing to run cyber-espionage campaigns against U.S. critical infrastructure, with China failing to even attempt to hide the malicious activity anymore. In a report following a meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials last December, China confirmed that they were behind cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, retaliating against U.S. support for Taiwan. Now,…
Chinese police are accusing the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of launching cyberattacks against essential industry during the Asian Winter Games in February. The officials added three alleged agents to a wanted list, and accused the University of California and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University of being involved in the incidents. How the…
A theater actor is claiming to have knowledge of a zero-day exploit in Fortinet’s FortiGate firewalls, and is offering to sell the vulnerability. The offer comes after Fortinet has recently warned of threat actors accessing its FortiOS and FortiProxy devices. The hacker claims that the vulnerability in the firewalls could allow an attacker to execute…
A new remote access trojan (RAT) called “Resolver RAT” is being seen across the globe in phishing emails. Researchers believe it may become one of the most popular infostealers in recent years. Actors are using the previously undocumented tool, which features very sophisticated methods of avoiding detection by email services, in new phishing campaigns. The…
The race to expand large language models (LLMs) beyond the million-token threshold has ignited a fierce debate in the AI community. Models like MiniMax-Text-01 boast 4-million-token capacity, and Gemini 1.5 Pro can process up to 2 million tokens simultaneously. They now promise game-changing applications and can analyze entire codebases, legal contracts or research papers in…
Social media company Meta said Monday that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train its artificial intelligence models, resuming work put on hold last year after activists raised concerns about data privacy. The company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said that it would train its AI systems using public posts…
With complementary timing alongside World Quantum Day 2025, access to quantum machine learning is expanding with Terra Quantum’s announcement of their closed beta launch of TQ42 Studio, a new ecosystem for hybrid quantum-classical AI development. The platform features two main components: QAI Hub, a no-code interface for building quantum AI models, and Qode Engine, a…
Nato has acquired an AI-powered military system from Palantir, the US software company chaired by Donald Trump-backer Peter Thiel and with strong Pentagon connections. The alliance’s choice comes amid rising anxiety among European members over a potential US withdrawal after Trump threatened to stop protecting the continent if capitals did not drastically increase defence spending.…
AI company Hugging Face is taking a big leap into robotics with the acquisition of humanoid robotics startup Pollen Robotics. The financial terms were not disclosed, but Pollen’s co-founders, Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet, and approximately 20 Pollen employees will be joining Hugging Face. Pollen, which was founded in 2016 and is based in the…
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever has raised $2bn for his artificial intelligence start-up in a deal which values the year-old company at $32bn though it currently has no product. Sutskever, who left OpenAI last year after a failed coup against chief executive Sam Altman, launched Safe Superintelligence last June with Daniel Gross, who led Apple’s AI…
Nvidia , the AI chipmaker that powers much of today’s AI boom, on Monday announced a push to produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. for the first time. The company said it plans to produce up to $500 billion of AI infrastructure in the U.S. via its manufacturing partnerships over the next four…
The threat of U.S. military intervention helped bring Iran back to the negotiating table. Its hobbled economy is likely to keep it there. Trump’s administration resumed its campaign of “maximum pressure” to force Iran to rein in its nuclear program and prevent it from developing a bomb. Officials from the U.S. and Iran convened in…
United States strikes in Yemen’s Sanaa province have killed six people and wounded more than a dozen others, Houthi media has said. Houthi-held areas of Yemen have seen near-daily deadly strikes blamed on the US since Washington launched an air campaign against the group on March 15 to force them to stop threatening vessels in…
A Russian ballistic-missile strike on the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed at least 34 people. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack was evidence that Russia had no intention of bringing its three-year war to an end. The strike came two days after U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in…
United States President Donald Trump has said that no one is “getting off the hook” on trade after his administration appeared to dial down pressure on China by issuing a notice exempting certain high-tech products from his “reciprocal” tariffs. Trump said he would announce new tariffs on semiconductors over the next week. Trump’s latest comments…
As AI becomes embedded in daily business workflows, the risk of data exposure increases. Prompt leaks are not rare exceptions. Prompt leaks happen when sensitive data, such as proprietary information, personal records, or internal communications, is unintentionally exposed through interactions with LLMs. To reduce risk, security leaders should focus on policy, visibility, and culture and…
In a secret meeting that took place late last year between Chinese and American officials, the former confirmed that China had conducted cyberattacks against US infrastructure as part of the campaign known as Volt Typhoon, according to The Wall Street Journal. The remarks made at the meeting by Chinese officials were “indirect and somewhat ambiguous”,…
Data privacy comes with a cost. There are security techniques that protect sensitive user data, like customer addresses, from attackers who may attempt to extract them from AI models — but they often make those models less accurate. MIT researchers recently developed a framework, based on a new privacy metric called PAC Privacy, that could…
Alphabet Inc’s Google unit is partnering with the largest electrical grid operator in North America, PJM Interconnection, to roll out artificial intelligence technologies aimed at getting new power supplies connected faster, the company said on Thursday. The collaboration is the first time AI would be used to comprehensively manage an interconnection queue. Electricity demand has…
For much of last year, about 2,500 US service members from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit sailed aboard three ships throughout the Pacific, conducting training exercises in the waters off South Korea, the Philippines, India, and Indonesia. At the same time, onboard the ships, an experiment was unfolding: The Marines in the unit responsible for…
Intel Corp’s newly appointed CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, has deep financial ties to China’s tech sector, including investments in companies reportedly linked to the Chinese military. Tan has control over more than 40 Chinese companies and investment funds and holds minority stakes in over 600 others through firms he owns or manages — including at least…
When personal computers were first invented, only a small group of people who understood programming languages could use them. Today, anyone can look up the local weather, play their favorite song or even generate code with just a few keystrokes. This shift has fundamentally changed how humans interact with technology, making powerful computational tools accessible…
OpenAI will soon retire GPT-4, an AI model it launched over two years ago, from ChatGPT, according to a changelog posted on Thursday. Effective April 30, GPT-4 will be “fully replaced” by GPT-4o, the current default model in ChatGPT, OpenAI said. GPT-4 will remain available for use via OpenAI’s API. “In head‑to‑head evaluations, [GPT-4o] consistently…
With the rise of artificial intelligence, companies around the world are in a race for strong AI talent and working to upskill their workforces on the technology. This has been top of mind for organizational leaders, as 66% of them say they wouldn’t hire someone without AI skills, and 71% say they’d rather hire someone…
Israel has said that it will dismiss reservists who signed a letter condeming the continued war in Gaza. Israel’s government has said it will dismiss reservists who have sigend a letter calling for the end of the war in Gaza. Over 1,000 reservists have signed the letter and more people continue to add their name…
Ecuador is set to hold its presidential election runoff this Sunday. Ecuador’s presidential election runoff is scheduled to be held this Sunday. The two candidates are the incubment conservative president and a leftist lawyer. Voters are particularly concered about the continued violence caused by drug cartels as well as rising unemployment. Read more: https://apnews.com/article/ecuador-presidential-election-noboa-luisa-gonzalez-correa-f3914829d739a8db92ea95be1a083415
Zimbabwe has begun to compensate white farmers for land seizures. Zombabwe has made the first compensation payments to white farmers for land seizuers. The seizuers were conducted by former President Robert Mugabe as part of a plan to redistrubute land to poor black families. The compensation payments will only cover the cost of items destroyed…
Australia’s main opposition leader says he was targeted by a bomb plot. Australia’s main opposition leader has said that his home was targetted by a bomb plot. A suspect has been arrested and is facing charges of terrorism. Threats against Australian lawmakers have been on the rise in recent years. Australia is in the middle…
Mercury Corp. has been the victim of a data breach. The US based aircraft parts maker Mercury Corp. has been the victim of a data breach. The breach exposed the personal information of over 3,000 people. The company has said that their investigation has not revealed the exact nature of all the data that was…
Hackers have claimed to breach Wolters Kluwer. Hackers have claimed to breach the data archive of Wolters Kluwer. The company provides finicial services to several Fortune 500 firms. Researchers have said that the initial information released by the hackers indicates that they are likely in position of sensitive information. Read more: https://cybernews.com/security/wolters-kluwer-data-breach-financial-security/
Laboratory Services Cooperative has notified customers that their data was stolen. Laboratory Services Cooperative has notified customers that their personal data was stolen in a hack that took place in October. So far 1.6 million people have been identified as having their data stolen. The company said that patients of some Planned Parenthood clinics have…
US regulator leadership emails were hacked. The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has said that its leaderships’ emails were hacked. The Office said that the breach occured in February and that it had little impact on the security of its work. The Office has also said that information related to the condition…
Enterprise infrastructure is increasingly complex, meaning protecting it is, too. The attack surface is more expansive than ever, and many enterprises have a patchwork quilt of security tools, making it difficult to gain a cohesive understanding of their security posture. Add in AI — and all the threats it brings — and security teams are…
Google Cloud unveiled its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Ironwood, on Wednesday. This custom AI accelerator, the company claims, delivers more than 24 times the computing power of the world’s fastest supercomputer when deployed at scale. The new chip, announced at Google Cloud Next ’25, represents a significant pivot in Google’s decade-long AI chip development…
At NTT Upgrade 2025 in San Francisco, NTT Research has announced a UHD Video AI Inference chip for real-time 4k video processing. Its first application for the technology is for use in drones doing surveillance and detecting people flow. The company claims it will detect people using a 3×21 pixel pattern from a drone at…
Before 19 February 2025, most people wouldn’t have heard of the name Majorana. That day, Microsoft announced it had created the first chip powered by “topological qubits”. These qubits (quantum bits), the company said, were built around elusive particles dubbed “Majorana fermions”, named after the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana. Quantum computers rely on qubits that…
Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters and blast unwanted messages to more than 80,000 websites in four months, researchers said Wednesday. The finding, documented in a post published by security firm SentinelOne’s SentinelLabs, underscores the double-edged sword wielded by large language models. The…
China’s inaugural training facility for heterogeneous humanoid robots will become fully operational in July. Known as the National and Local Co-built Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center, it occupies over 5,000 square meters in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang area. It aims to catalyze the sharing and utilization of large-scale data among robot developers. Global Times reports that over 100…
The global rush to AI technology will require almost as much energy by the end of this decade as Japan uses today, but only about half of the demand is likely to be met from renewable sources. Processing data, mainly for AI, will consume more electricity in the US alone by 2030 than manufacturing steel,…
Turkey has released dozens of people charged with participating in anti-government protests. 127 people have been released on bail by an Istanbul Court. The individuals had been charged with offenses related to their participation in anti-government protests. The vast majority of those released were students with upcoming exams. Read more: https://apnews.com/article/turkey-prisoners-students-protests-imamoglu-f4762e0faaa54ed3694fdc80b9a43edf
South Korea and Syria’s new government established diplomatic relations. South Korea has established diplomatic relations with the new government of Syria. South Korea has said that it is open to playing a role in the reconstruction of the country. South Korea has moved to establish relations with all world nations including those aligned with North…
Unions in Argentina have organized a general strike to protest government policies. The major unions in Argentina have organized a general strike to protest government policies. The union blame the government of President Milei for inflation and cuts to social programs. The strike takes places as negotiations between the government and the IMF are coming…
A prominent opposition leader in Tanzania has been arrested. A prominent opposition leader in Tanzania has been arrested on charges of treason after calling for electoral reform. The country is set to hold a general election in October of this year. Opposition parties have been critical of election laws which they say advantage the ruiling…
Morocco’s social security database was breached by hackers. Hackers have claimed to have breached Morocco’s social security databse. The warned that unless Morocoos ceased attacks against Algerian websites they would keep attacking government cyber infrastructure. The hackers have released some of the data they claimed to have stolen. The data showed salary information and other…
A ransomware attack against a major vendor has compromised banks in Singapore. A ransomware attack against the data vendor Toppan Next Tech has compromised the security of Singapore’s DBS Group and the country’s Bank of China branch. The breach has exposed the personal data of thousands of customers of both insitutions. Invesitgations into the breach…
Intelligence agencies have warned of increased Chinese spyware attacks against activists. Western intellgience agencies have warned that China is increasingly using apps to target rights advocates. The agencies said that those invovled with Taiwanese and Tibetan movements were the most at risk of being targetted. The agencies warned that organizations and individuals linked to advocates…
Toll payment services have increasingly been the victim of scams. Toll payment services have been the newest target of scam texts. There has been a 600% increase in the amount of reported text scams about late toll payments. The scammers have targeted individuals who live close to areas with toll authorities. Read more: https://cybernews.com/cybercrime/fake-toll-payment-texts-smishing-scams/
Agentic AI is the hottest AI topic because it takes AI assistance as we know it a step further, actually carrying out tasks for users. Adobe has millions of users who rely on its applications and services to carry out complex everyday business or creative processes. As a result, it is nearly a perfect candidate…
Google is releasing a new AI model designed to deliver strong performance with a focus on efficiency. The model, Gemini 2.5 Flash, will soon launch in Vertex AI, Google’s AI development platform. The company says it offers “dynamic and controllable” computing, allowing developers to adjust processing time based on the complexity of queries. “[You can…
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