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In the shadow of the recent MGM Cyberattack (and other recent ransomware attacks in U.S. and in the Pacific Islands), cyber defense is in the spotlight. Specifically, what role should corporate boards play in human risk management, as well social and human engineering defenses? Following are OODA Loop resources on these cyber threats, addressing the…
OODA CEO Matt Devost and Raymond Roberts, in a fireside chat on The Future of Money at OODAcon 2022, began with a discussion of origins of their interest in bitcoin, the history of money and the global fiat currency standard as a necessary introduction to a longer discussion of the future of money. Later in the…
According to the customer development, lean startup model, a firm grasp on “market type” (i.e. creating a new market or entering an existing market) is central to any startup companies success or incumbent companies efforts at innovation (or self-cannibalization to stay ahead of external disruption). How will Elon Musk’s vision of X handle the already…
This post examines the type of technology leadership required in large enterprises like the government.
Trust – between individuals, governents and corporations, machines and technology platforms – is both under attack and undergoing a fundamental transformation. The Atlantic Council’s frames these issue as the “Economy of Trust” – which will rely on “innovation and invention, informed by data, to mitigate concerns surrounding the impacts and risks of emerging technologies.” Atlantic…
Loosely tethered to our previous update – “While Texas Declared a Grid Emergency, EU Fossil Generation is at Record Low” – two more climate crisis related developments are worth tracking as an indicator of what may be the new reality in this age of polycrisis. We do not provide solutions but do mention mental frameworks…
Rupert Murdoch began his career as a young, ambitious individual aiming to regain his family’s stake in Australia’s news industry. Inherited a newspaper in Adelaide from his father, he swiftly expanded his media empire with a hunger for money and power. Over his 70-year career, Murdoch has become one of Australia’s most successful international businessmen,…
A detailed explanation of SWIFT (The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), its relation to the fiat currency standard – along with an update on SWIFT’s blockchain pilot efforts.
Here we present analysis relevant to cyber conflict including the potential of spillover into non combatants and provide insights on the relevance of recent Russian statements.
Our research and tracking of the global information war and the dramatic increase in ransomware attacks over the last three years have been indicating, for some time, that more attacks were coming and that corporate boards and their directors should prepare. The MGM ransomware attack makes this point well. Details here.
OODA CEO Matt Devost and Raymond Roberts, in a fireside chat on The Future of Money at OODAcon 2022, discussed the origins of their interest in bitcoin, the history of money and the global fiat currency standard as a necessary introduction to a longer discussion of the future of money.
Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu was taken away last week by authorities for questioning, according to a person close to decision making in Beijing, while U.S. officials say he is being removed from his post. Li hasn’t made a public appearance since late August. One U.S. official said the trouble surrounding Li pointed to deep-seated…
Financial network complexity, biased algorithms, regulatory considerations, and predictive analytics (based on faulty foundational models) are only a few of the risk variables that will determine the future of AI in the finance sector. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler, in his previous life as an MIT Sloan School of Management Professor, wrote a…
The decarbonization of heavy industry figures prominently into the “all of the above” solutions which will need to be deployed to combat the climate crisis. “Clean steel” is showing real promise. Details here.
Healthcare is already in the midst of an AI revolution – with an applied technology market maturity which outpaces most other industry sectors which are in a reactive mode to the AI hype cycle. Explore these AI healthcare use cases and apply them to your organization using design and systems thinking.
Microsoft launched its AI-powered Security Copilot a year ago to bring a chatbot to the cybersecurity space, and now it’s expanding it with AI agents that are designed to autonomously assist overwhelmed security teams. Microsoft is unveiling six of its own AI agents for its Security Copilot, as well as five that have been created…
China has narrowed the AI development gap with the United States to just three months in some areas, because firms such as DeepSeek have worked out how to use chips and apply algorithms more efficiently, the CEO of Chinese startup 01.AI Lee Kai-fu said. Lee, a prominent figure in the global artificial intelligence space and…
Jeffrey Goldberg, a journalist from the Atlantic magazine, was accidentally included in a top-secret chat on Signal, an encrypted messaging app, where Trump administration officials discussed upcoming attacks on the Houthis in Yemen. The Trump administration has confirmed the breach in a statement shared with the media by the National Security Council. Critics are calling…
The United Nations is significantly reducing its international work force in Gaza as a result of Israeli strikes, one of which hit a U.N. compound. The U.S. will reduce its workforce by about one-third in what will be its first drawdown since the start of the Israeli-Hamas war in 2023. Over 280 U.N. staff members…
The U.S. and Russia have completed a 12-hour round of talks in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, attempting to secure a partial ceasefire in Ukraine. A joint statement is expected to be released with the results of the talks on Tuesday. U.S. officials will hold more talks with Ukrainian negotiators soon. President Trump stated that he…
President Trump has announced that any country purchasing oil or gas from Venezuela will be subject to a 25-percent tariff in trade with the United States. These tariffs were announced on Monday morning and will be enacted on April 2. In the announcement, Trump criticized Venezuela for enabling migration to the U.S., additionally attacking the…
In an Interpol-led crackdown, over 300 suspects were arrested across seven African countries in a crackdown on cybercriminal rings. These cybercriminals had been targeting businesses and individuals, affecting over 5,000 entities. The crackdown effort was called Operation Red Card and ran from November 2024 to February 2025. In the operation, almost 2,000 devices were seized.…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it is going to investigate if Chinese telecommunications equipment and service providers which are considered national security threats are still operating in the US. Some companies on a FCC list of national security risks are believed to still be operating in the U.S. despite their presence on the…
A hacker posted an advertisement attempting to sell millions of data records which they allegedly stole from the company. The actor claimed that they had stolen the data of over 140,000 Oracle Cloud tenants. A cloud security firm analyzed the hacker’s claims and believed that the attack was enacted with a known Oracle product vulnerability.…
Korean chip startup FuriosaAI has turned down an $800 million takeover offer from Meta Platforms Inc., choosing instead to grow the business as an independent company, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Meta had been in discussions about acquiring Seoul-based FuriosaAI since the start of this year, said the person, who asked not…
A compact, deep-sea, cable-cutting device, capable of severing the world’s most fortified underwater communication or power lines, has been unveiled by China – and it could shake up global maritime power dynamics. The revelation marks the first time any country has officially disclosed that it has such an asset, capable of disrupting critical undersea networks.…
A little over a year ago, Joseph Coates was told there was only one thing left to decide. Did he want to die at home, or in the hospital? Coates, then 37 and living in Renton, Wash., was barely conscious. For months, he had been battling a rare blood disorder called POEMS syndrome, which had…
Researchers at QuTech, in collaboration with Fujitsu and Element Six, have demonstrated a complete set of quantum gates with error probabilities below 0.1%. While many challenges remain, being able to perform basic gate operations with errors occurring below this threshold, satisfies an important condition for future large-scale quantum computation. The research was published in Physical…
The Bot Company, the robotics startup founded by former Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt, has raised $150 million in a round led by Greenoaks, according to Reuters, citing unnamed sources. Vogt founded the startup with Paril Jain, who led the AI tech team at Tesla, and former Cruise software engineer Luke Holoubek. Vogt did…
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek just released the latest version of their enormous DeepSeek v3 model, baking the release date into the name DeepSeek-V3-0324. The license is MIT (that’s new – previous DeepSeek v3 had a custom license), the README is empty and the release adds up a to a total of 641 GB of…
Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co. used Chinese-made semiconductors to develop techniques for training AI models that would cut costs by 20%, according to people familiar with the matter. Ant used domestic chips, including from affiliate Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Huawei Technologies Co., to train models using the so-called Mixture of Experts machine learning approach,…
China’s armed forces are more ready than ever to surround the self-ruled island of Taiwan, cut it off from the world and try to squeeze it into submission. The more that China prepares, the greater the risk that Beijing decides to shift without notice from drills to war. Taiwan relies on imports for 96% of…
President Trump has indicated he is open to supplying Ukraine with more weapons in exchange for access to the country’s mineral resources. Ukraine is on board, but putting the plan into practice might not be so easy as many of the minerals of interest are in areas under Russian occupation or threatened by Moscow’s advance.…
US President Donald Trump’s outreach to Iran’s Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on a possible new nuclear deal is an attempt to avoid direct military action, US special envoy Steve Witkoff has said. This comes after Trump sent a letter to the Iranian leadership seeking to engage in talks over Iran’s nuclear activities and warning…
An Israeli air strike on a hospital in southern Gaza has killed at least two people, including a senior Hamas official and a 16-year-old boy. Israel’s military said the attack had been carried out with “precise munitions in order to mitigate harm”, following an “extensive intelligence-gathering process”. Israel has killed four members of Hamas’s political…
Apps like Signal, WhatsApp, Confide, Telegram and others use encryption to scramble messages so only the intended end-user can read them, and they typically aren’t stored on government servers. Some automatically delete messages, and some prevent users from screenshotting or sharing messages. While such apps promise increased security and privacy, they often skirt open records…
A ransomware group known as Cloak has claimed responsibility for a disrupting cyberattack on the Virginia Attorney General Office’s systems. The incident became public in mid-February, when the state’s top prosecutorial agency told employees that nearly all its computer systems, internal services and applications, and website were down, and that internet connectivity and VPN access…
Companies the US has said are linked to the Chinese military are a bigger part of the US economy than I thought, according to a new report. One-third of the US supply chain relies on firms that the Pentagon categorizes as “Chinese military companies,” according to a report published this week by Boston-based cybersecurity firm…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Thursday walked back comments he made in January, when he cast doubt on whether useful quantum computers would hit the market in the next 15 years. At Nvidia’s “Quantum Day” event, part of the company’s annual GTC Conference, Huang admitted that his comments came out wrong. “This is the first…
The U.S. Department of Treasury announced today that it has removed sanctions against Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer used by North Korean Lazarus hackers to launder hundreds of millions stolen in multiple crypto heists. The Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tornado Cash in August 2022 for helping launder over $7 billion since…
Today, we’re excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives. When you opt in, Cloudflare will automatically deploy an AI-generated set of linked pages when we detect inappropriate bot activity,…
Commercial quadcopters have been on the mainstream gadget scene for 15 years, proliferating across industries and among hobbyists. There’s a swanky DJI store on New York City’s Fifth Avenue, and you probably have a neighbor, not to mention a roofer, who owns a drone. So when researchers at the embedded-device security firm Red Balloon started…
Global competition is heating up among large language models (LLMs), with the major players vying for dominance in AI reasoning capabilities and cost efficiency. OpenAI is leading the pack with ChatGPT and DeepSeek, both of which pushed the boundaries of artificial intelligence. Amid this AI arms race, OpenAI’s latest trademark application with the United States…
In the world of cybersecurity and privacy, hearing the words AI and Gmail uttered in the same breath is usually going to be a cause for concern. After all, we are constantly warned about the dangers of dangerous AI-powered attacks locking people out of their Gmail accounts and the difficulty users have in getting genuine…
Indonesia has enacted a new law which allows officers to hold more positions in the government. Indonesia’s Parliament has approved a law which allows officers to hold more positions within the government without resigning from the military. The Parliament unaminously approved the law. This repeals parts of a law passed in 2024 which restrict military…
Strikes have continued in Gaza following Israel’s resumption of hostitlies. Strikes in Gaza have continued since Israeli’s resumption of hostitlitles. Hamas has responded with rocket attacks into Israel. Israel has also enforced a blockade around Gaza City. Internal divisions within the Israeli government have also begun to grow after the country’s Attorney General ruled the…
M23 rebels have continued their offensive in eastern Congo. M23 rebels have continued their offensive in eastern Congo. The group has captured a mineral-rich minning town in its latest offensive. Calls for a ceasefire have increased as the scale of the conflict has grown. This latest offensive has cut off several supply routes for the…
Russia and Ukraine have carried out a large scale prisoner exchange. Russia and Ukraine have carried out one of the largest prisoner exchanges of the war. This exchange saw 175 prisoners swapped by each country. This exchange has been planned for several weeks and is not related to on-going talks for a ceasefire. Read more:…
Microsoft’s recently revealed quantum computer was dealt another blow this week, as data presented by the firm at the world’s biggest annual gathering of physicists failed to convince researchers that the device works as advertised. “Thanks for waking up early and coming out today. I appreciate you all in the back,” said Chetan Nayak at…
Nvidia will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on chips and other electronics manufactured in the US over the next four years, its chief executive has said, as the company tilts its supply chain back from Asia in the face of Donald Trump’s tariff threats. The huge spending projection from the world’s most valuable semiconductor…
Mercedes-Benz is trialling using humanoid robots made by U.S.-based company Apptronik for tasks such as moving components to the production line or carrying out quality checks, the latest automaker to experiment with robots in manufacturing. The German company has invested a low double-digit million-euro sum in Apptronik, a Texas-based firm founded in 2016 that is…
According to CorPower Ocean, the WACE (Wave energy AI-based Control Enhancement) project, running until November 2025, aims to optimize performance and control strategies for wave energy converters (WECs). This follows CorPower Ocean’s recent €32 million Series B funding round to advance its technology towards commercialization. The investment came after its full-scale C4 device withstood record-breaking…
As drones continue to reshape the nature of warfare, the limitations on range and power are becoming the difference between success and defeat on the battlefield. Now, an Israel-based drone company and U.S. manufacturing company Mach Industries are working together to co-produce hydrogen fuel cell powered drones, which offer big advantages in range but have…
Every time you type a question into ChatGPT, you are, probably without knowing it, making several monopolies richer. Actually, it’s no different if you use one of ChatGPT’s many competitors. Nearly all of them use chips from Nvidia Corp., which sells around 92% of the particular components — called artificial intelligence accelerators — that make…
OpenAI is a startup, which means we don’t have real data about the business. At the same time, OpenAI is clearly one of the defining companies of this era, and potentially historically significant. We cover all of this and more, including: Altman’s background, the OpenAI origin story, and the genesis of ChatGPT, which changed everything.…
Nigeria’s President has suspended the govenor and declared a state of emergency in an oil-rich state. Nigeria’s President has declared a state of emergency and suspended the govenor and lawmakers of the oil-rich Rivers state. This comes after a serires of attacks against oil pipelines in the region. The govenor was also facing an impeachment…
Taiwan’s President has annouced an increase in defense spending. Taiwan’s President has annouced that the new defense budget will see an increase which will bring military spending to 3% of GDP. Taiwan plans to modernize its forces and replace ageing equipment. The move comes as US officials have critized the country’s military prepardness and China…
Germany has approved increased spending for defense and infrastrcuture. Germany’s parliament has given its approval to changes to the Country’s debt rules. The proposal was brought as part of a broader plan to stimulate the economy and increase the Country’s defense capabilities. The proposal also allows for increased aid to Ukraine to be added to…
Germany has reopended its embassy in Syria. Germany has reopened its Embassy in Syria after closing it 13 years ago. The German Foreign Ministry said that it was important for Europe to have a presence in the country. The Ministry has said that the embassy will not have a large staff or a permant ambassador.…
A Chinese search engine operater has denied a data breach occured after personal information was exposed. The Chinese search engine operater has denied that a data breach occured after an executive’s daughter posted the personal information of users online. The company has said that executive’s are not allowed to access the data of users. The…
Malicous actors are increasingly using AI to facilitate attacks. Malicous actors are increasingly using AI to facilitate account takeovers. Attackers have begun to use AI bots to automate the process of cracking accounts by using hundreds of different password combinations. Researchers have reported only a handful of known cases so far, but that cases have…
Dutch government agencies are collecting more data in secret. Dtuch government agencies have increased their use of special powers to secretly collect data. A review panel has only denied 4% of requests made by Dutch military and intelligence agencies for the collection of data. Defenders of the pratice pointed out that in 2024 the need…
Ransomware groups are claiming that the Babuk 2 group has stolen their work. Ransomware groups have come forward to claim that the Babuk 2 group has stolen their work. Babkuk 2 claims to be the successor to the Babuk group; however, the Bakuk group has denied this. In addition, several other ransomware groups have claimed…
AI model progress has accelerated tremendously, and in the last six months, models have improved more than in the previous six months. This trend will continue because three scaling laws are stacked together and working in tandem: pre-training scaling, post-training scaling, and inference time scaling. Claude 3.7 shows incredible performance for software engineering. Deepseek v3…
This year’s list of biotech companies reflects the evolving impact of AI, a growing interest in cutting-edge research tools for single-cell analysis and spatial proteomics, and clinical advances for novel drug candidates that promise more convenient and effective treatment for conditions impacting millions of Americans. AlzPath’s highly sensitive blood test can detect signs of Alzheimer’s…
Late last October, two Ukrainian military officers flew to the US to visit the headquarters of Skydio Inc., a Silicon Valley manufacturer of quadcopter drones. Like the machine gun and the tank before them, drones are remaking battle, and since Russia’s 2022 invasion, Ukraine has become the world’s laboratory for drone warfare. Quadcopters bought for…
Equal1, a spin-off company from the University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland, has unveiled the world’s first silicon-based quantum computer at a conference in California. Dubbed Bell-1, the quantum computer weighs a mere 440 pounds (200 kgs) and can be plugged into a regular electrical socket, the company said in a press release. Quantum computers…
Nvidia is releasing what it’s calling an AI foundation model for humanoid robotics. Announced at GTC 2025 in San Jose, the model, dubbed Groot N1, is a “generalist” model, trained on both synthetic and real data. In a video introducing Groot N1, Nvidia says it features a “dual-system architecture” for “thinking fast and slow,” inspired…
Somewhere in your organization, an AI project is dying. Perhaps it’s the recommendation engine that was supposed to boost sales by 30%. Maybe it’s the predictive maintenance system that promised to slash downtime. Or the customer service chatbot that was going to revolutionize response times. The digital dust gathering on these ambitious initiatives represents not…
Nvidia announced new chips for building and deploying artificial intelligence models at its annual GTC conference on Tuesday. CEO Jensen Huang revealed Blackwell Ultra, a family of chips shipping in the second half of this year, as well as Vera Rubin, the company’s next-generation graphics processing unit, or GPU, that is expected to ship in…
A year ago Unitree pioneered humanoid robotic backflips. Now they have moved on to the far more complex demonstration of dexterity of a side-flip. This is the same robot that has been practicing Kung-Fu.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that a wave of air strikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza overnight is “only the beginning”. Netanyahu said that Israeli forces would strike Hamas with “increasing force” and future ceasefire negotiations would “only take place under fire”. The air strikes killed at least 404 Palestinians, many…
Taiwan’s military planners said U.S. support is essential to the security of the island as anxieties simmer in Taipei about whether Trump would send help to defend against a Chinese attack. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry, in a security road map for the next four years, emphasized the usefulness of U.S. support in areas including intelligence, reconnaissance…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is angry about a Hong Kong company’s plan to sell Panama Canal ports to a U.S.-led group. The Xi leadership had originally planned to use the Panama port issue as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Trump administration. President Trump, who in the first minutes of his administration called for…
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame have held direct talks for the first time since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized two major cities in eastern DRC. In a joint statement issued with Qatar, the countries called for an “immediate ceasefire” in eastern DRC. The talks came after M23…
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