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Like the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Winter of 2020, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are once again serving as the first visible flashpoint in a looming intermodal supply chain disruption, offering an early warning signal of the economic fallout from shifting tariff policies and global supply chain reconfigurations.
Hardware is having a moment in NYC — and these founders are proving it’s possible to build physical products in New York City (which conventional wisdom says would be tough if not impossible. A recent Deep Tech Week NYC panel – hosted by Andreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism practice – brought together the minds behind New…
In an unprecedented showcase of robotic innovation, Beijing hosted the world’s first Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon.
Recently, the U.S. president signed an executive order (EO) that transferred some of the responsibility to improve their key infrastructure from the federal government to states. The move comes at a time when the current Administration has been cutting federal jobs, some with cybersecurity missions such as at the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency,…
AI models aren’t just autocomplete engines anymore—SweetBench and SuiteAgent are transforming the evaluation of long-context performance for real-world autonomous coding tasks.
The April 2025 OODA Network meeting focused on the operational challenges and strategic promise of the “Golden Dome” initiative—an ambitious U.S. effort to develop a multi-layered, AI-driven space and missile defense shield. The dialogue, anchored by former Space Force CTO Lisa Costa, revealed the strategic, technological, and cultural shifts necessary to confront emerging threats in…
In 2011, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) began sharply prioritizing robotics as a strategic sector, officially declaring it a national priority. Since then, increasingly aggressive goals have been set, and investment in robotics has surged. Today, we are witnessing the early results of this massive effort. With the March 2025 release of the new…
Deep Tech must be sold before it scales. At a recent panel entitled “Commercializing Deep Tech,” leaders from frontier hardware ventures and strategic capital convened to share tactical strategies for turning outlandish ideas into industrial inevitabilities.
Earlier this month, as part of Deep Tech Week NYC 2025, a unique summit hosted by Everstar and Steel Atlas at HOF Capital brought together innovators, investors, and policy minds to reimagine the future of nuclear energy through financing, reform, and next-gen technology.
The recent Ligandal Future of Biotech Summit—part of Deep Tech Week NYC—convened business leaders and innovators in biotech, AI, and venture capital to forecast a future in which programmable biology, decentralized manufacturing, and quantum-informed AI radically transform therapeutics, diagnostics, and biosecurity.
Leaders from the U.S. intelligence and defense sectors are sounding the alarm: The pace of technological disruption is outstripping institutional agility—especially when it comes to adopting dual-use innovations and mitigating emerging threats.
As relations between Beijing and Washington continue to deteriorate, China has also escalated its war of public opinion with the United States.
Earthquake in Turkey kills one, damages buildings across Balikesir A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Turkey’s Balikesir province on Sunday, killing one person and injuring 29. The epicenter was in Sindirgi, where 16 buildings and two mosque minarets collapsed, most of them derelict. Shocks were felt as far as Istanbul, and officials urged residents to avoid…
Haiti Declares Emergency Amid Devastating Central Region Gang Violence Haiti’s government announced a three-month state of emergency in the West, Artibonite, and Center departments to fight surging gang violence and tackle an agricultural and food crisis. In the Artibonite region, gangs have killed farmers, razed fields, and displaced over 239,000 people. UN reports indicate that…
IAEA Deputy Visiting Tehran Excludes Nuclear Facility Inspections Deputy head of the International Atomic Energy Agency will travel to Tehran Monday to revive strained ties, but no inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities are planned. The trip marks the first IAEA visit since Israel and Iran’s 12-day war in June, during which some of Iran’s key…
DEF CON Reveals Critical Smart Bus Security Flaws At DEF CON, Trend Micro’s Chiao-Lin “Steven Meow” Yu and CHT Security’s Kai-Ching “Keniver” Wang showed that smart buses can be remotely compromised. They found that the same M2M router powers both free Wi-Fi and in-vehicle controls, and by bypassing its weak authentication, they accessed ADAS and…
GPT-5 Fails Early Security Tests from Independent Red Teams Two independent firms, NeuralTrust and SPLX, exposed major security flaws in GPT-5 within 24 hours of its release. NeuralTrust’s EchoChamber jailbreak used narrative-driven manipulation to bypass safeguards without triggering standard filters. SPLX demonstrated successful obfuscation attacks, including character-splitting techniques and role conditioning, prompting GPT-5 to provide…
University Security Lapses Under Investigation Columbia University confirmed a cyberattack that caused an IT outage on June 24 and led to the theft of data affecting 868,969 individuals. An August 5 update revealed that hackers accessed admission, enrollment, and financial aid records, as well as employee information. Compromised data includes Social Security numbers, academic histories,…
Credential Hygiene Emerges as Core Security Weakness SonicWall investigated claims of a zero-day vulnerability exploited in Akira ransomware attacks but concluded the issue stemmed from the known CVE-2024-40766. The company found that attackers likely used previously compromised credentials, especially during migrations between firewall generations, where passwords weren’t reset. SonicWall noted fewer than 40 related incidents,…
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research arm of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has entered a strategic agreement with Quantinuum, a world leader in quantum computing, to accelerate the development and benchmarking of next-generation quantum computing algorithms and commercial applications in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The agreement grants TII’s researchers…
The exercise presented a fraught scenario: China’s military had blockaded Taiwan by air and sea, and Southeast Asian countries were grappling with how to evacuate as many as 1 million of their nationals trapped on the besieged island. Over two days in April at a Singapore hotel, some 40 participants and observers in the war…
Torrential rain pounded the southern Japanese island of Kyushu on Friday, triggering floods and landslides and sending residents to shelters as officials issued highest-level warnings in parts of the region. A mudslide hit a house in Aira city in Kagoshima prefecture, burying two people who were rescued alive and taken to hospital, according to the…
The Government of India has raised at least 334 major incidents of violence against minorities with Pakistan and flagged 3,582 such cases in Bangladesh since 2021, Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh told Parliament. In a reply to a Rajya Sabha query, Mr Singh said the government regularly “follows” reports of violence…
China accused the Philippines on Friday of “playing with fire” after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said the Southeast Asian nation would be drawn into any conflict between China and the United States over Taiwan. It was responding to remarks by Marcos during a state visit to India that the Philippines’ closeness to Taiwan and the…
A North Korean man defected to South Korea after he swam down the coast and evaded armed border guards with orders to shoot anyone fleeing Kim Jong Un’s regime. The unidentified man was detected late on the evening of July 30, according to South Korean officials, who made the defection public on Thursday. He used…
At least 10 people died and 33 were missing after flash foods in Yuzhong County in China’s northwestern Gansu province, Chinese state media reported Friday. Heavy rains since Thursday had triggered flash floods and at least one landslide in mountainous areas near the city of Lanzhou, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The downpour knocked out…
Earlier today, OpenAI announced GPT-5, its latest model to power ChatGPT. The new frontier model is a significant leap forward in a lot of areas. But when will ChatGPT integration within Apple Intelligence adopt it? That’s actually happening rather soon… Using ChatGPT through Apple Intelligence is optional. If you allow Apple Intelligence to work with…
OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-5, the latest iteration of its flagship language model, to all ChatGPT users.The company’s CEO Sam Altman called GPT-5 “a significant step along the path to AGI” during a press briefing on Wednesday. While he stopped short of claiming the model reaches artificial general intelligence, Altman noted the latest release…
AI agent tools promise to siphon out some of the drudgery from daily workflows, but most organizations are hesitant to adopt them yet, harboring a pressing concern: data security. Large enterprises with trade secrets, companies in highly regulated industries, and government agencies have thought more than twice about bringing in AI tools out of concern…
A new publication from IBM has announced a step towards overcoming one of the biggest fundamental problems with quantum computers: they often just don’t work right. Quantum computers are inherently hard machines to make. From the difficulty of entangling the qubits in the first place to the errors inserted by the difficulty of keeping them…
Morgan Stanley estimates that a single humanoid robot costing $5 per hour could match the productivity of two human workers earning $25 per hour, creating an economic value of roughly $200,000 per unit over its working life. The bank’s analysts see cost and safety as the key drivers of adoption for AI-enabled machines, echoing historical…
Meta has acquired WaveForms AI, a startup focused on AI that can recognize and replicate emotion in audio. WaveForms AI was founded by Alexis Conneau, who previously worked on audio research at Meta and OpenAI, and Coralie Lemaitre, a former Google ad strategist. The company launched in December and earlier this year announced a US$40…
ChatGPT is getting another upgrade. On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled a new flagship A.I. model, GPT-5, and began sharing the technology with the hundreds of millions of people who use ChatGPT, the company’s online chatbot. During a briefing with journalists, OpenAI executives called GPT-5 a “major upgrade” over the systems that previously powered ChatGPT, saying the…
A new police chief has been appointed in Haiti. Haiti’s transitional government has appointed a new police chief. The new police chief had previously served as the head of presidential palace’s security. The transitional council said they hoped the appointment would raise the moral of the national police. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/haiti-replaces-police-chief-with-former-head-palace-security-2025-08-09/
The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for a Libyan war crimes suspect. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Saif Suleiman Sneidel based on allegations of war crimes. He has been accused of being a member of the Group of 50 terrorist organization. The allegations are related to alleged crimes committed…
Israel has approved a plan to occupy Gaza City. The Israeli Security Cabinet has approved a plan to occupy Gaza City. The move has been met with widespread opposition with Germany announcing restrictions on military aid to the country. Opposition parties within Israel have also denounced the move saying it will only drag the country…
The Solomon Islands has blocked the US, China, and Taiwan from the Pacific Islands forum. The Solomon Islands has blocked all donor countries including the US, China, and Taiwan from attending the Pacific Islands Forum. The decision was announced following pressure from China to block Taiwan’s attendance. Some members of the group expressed disappointment with…
Shield AI, the deep-tech company building state-of-the-art autonomy software products and aircraft, announced that its V-BAT unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has been operational in Europe since early June under a contract with Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, and in partnership with Global Sat Tech, to provide a comprehensive border management solution. The…
A plane belonging to an air ambulance service provider crashed in a residential area just outside Kenya’s capital on Thursday, killing at least six people, according to a local official and the aircraft’s owner. AMREF Flying Doctors said that the mid-size jet, a Cessna Citation XLS, took off from an airport in Nairobi and was…
State prosecutors in Thailand have formally indicted 23 individuals and companies on charges related to the collapse of a Bangkok office building that collapsed after an earthquake, killing at least 92 people. The partially built high-rise, which was to house the new State Audit Office, was the only one in Thailand to completely collapse on…
Japan’s first three F-35B stealth fighter jets arrived Thursday at an air base in the south of the country, its latest move to fortify defenses as tensions in the region grow. The new arrivals are three of the four F-35Bs scheduled for deployment at the Nyutabaru Air Base in the Miyazaki prefecture. The fourth jet…
A military source, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said the UAE plane “was bombed and completely destroyed” at Darfur’s Nyala airport. The airport has recently come under repeated air strikes by the Sudanese army, at war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023. There was no immediate comment from the…
Chen Ru-fen’s life has changed beyond recognition. The angel investor has moved from air-conditioned meeting rooms to Taiwan’s sweltering streets. Instead of helping start-ups she is now campaigning to rescue her country from what she believes is a surreptitious Chinese annexation push. She and thousands of other activists suffered a crushing defeat in their first…
Police in southwestern China scuffled this week with protesters demanding greater justice for a 14-year-old girl bullied by her schoolmates, the latest in a series of such incidents that have drawn national attention. The unusual public outrage was set off by videos widely shared on Chinese social media showing a group of teenage girls verbally…
Tokyo Electron Ltd. said it’s fired an employee at its Taipei unit, making its first public statement since the island’s government arrested six people suspected of stealing trade secrets from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The Japanese chip gear maker said in a statement it’s cooperating with the ongoing investigation, though it remains unclear if any…
President Donald Trump just announced a 100% tariff on foreign-made semiconductors in a bid to force companies to build their chips within the United States or order them from local fabs. According to the Associated Press, Trump made this announcement at the Oval Office after Apple’s Tim Cook promised an additional $100 billion in investments…
Apple has lost around a dozen of its artificial intelligence staff, including top researchers, to rivals as the iPhone maker struggles to stay relevant in Silicon Valley’s ferocious AI talent war. Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Cohere have scooped up staff from Apple’s AI team since the start of the year as they rush to gain…
OpenAI is preparing to introduce GPT-5 with a refreshed look for the ChatGPT web interface, signaling a significant update not only in AI capabilities but also in user experience. The new UI presents a cleaner prompt bar, consolidating its various actions into a single attachment button for a more streamlined appearance. The visual overhaul extends…
A new bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate would require the federal government to develop and implement a coordinated strategy to protect sensitive data from future cybersecurity threats posed by quantum computing. The National Quantum Cybersecurity Migration Strategy Act, introduced by Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), directs the White House Office of…
Lawmakers in Washington share U.S. drugmakers’ angst about being surpassed by China’s fast-progressing biotechnology sector, but aren’t raising alarms over the recent surge in licensing deals for medicines discovered there, according to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. On an earnings conference call Tuesday, Bourla described concern around China’s “emerging superiority” in several areas, including biotech, as…
President Donald Trump called on the chief executive officer of Intel Corp. to resign because of what he called conflicts of interest. “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday. “There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!”…
The latest generative AI models are not just stand-alone text-generating chatbots—instead, they can easily be hooked up to your data to give personalized answers to your questions. OpenAI’s ChatGPT can be linked to your Gmail inbox, allowed to inspect your GitHub code, or find appointments in your Microsoft calendar. But these connections have the potential…
The war for top AI talent is hitting frenzied new heights among giants like Meta and OpenAI. But it’s turning out that Anthropic, maker of the popular Claude models, is the place many engineers would rather work. New research from venture firm SignalFire shows that the startup is increasing its engineering organization faster than those…
The M23 rebel group has not been invited to peace talks. The M23 rebel group has said they were not invited to peace talks currently being held in Doha. The M23 rebel group has been active in the Congo region for several years and has lead many offensives against the government of the Democratic Republic…
Tensions have rise in Lebanon over plans to disarm Hezbollah. Tensions are high in Lebanon after plans to disarm Hezbollah have been proposed by the government. Reports indicate that Hezbollah and its allies boycotted a cabinet meeting over a planned discussion of this plan. The disarmament of Hezbollah has been a long term aim of…
Italy has given final approval to new bridge between Sicily and mainland. Italy will move forward with building a bridge between the mainland and Sicily. Local groups have promise to continue their opposition in the Courts. The government has said that they consider this project for critical for national security. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italy-gives-final-go-ahead-landmark-sicily-bridge-project-2025-08-06/
Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to allow observers into their countries. Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to allow international observers into their countries to oversee a recently agreed to ceasefire. The observers will be coordinated by ASEAN. Both countries have reaffirmed their commitment to upholding the ceasefire agreement. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/cambodia-thailand-agree-asean-observers-ensure-ceasefire-holds-2025-08-07/
A Dubai resident off 11 years (who asked to remain anonymous) was shocked to discover nearly Dh20,000 in unauthorised charges on his Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) account after a suspected hacking incident. He says the purchases were made without his knowledge and no OTPs or alerts were triggered. He discovered the issue when an…
Allen Control Systems, a Texas company whose flagship product shoots down drones, has a showroom in Alexandria with nothing to show. The Austin company opened the 3,200-square-foot retail space on Mt. Vernon Avenue in Del Ray last year but has been unable to display its Bullfrog, which uses robotics and other technologies to fire projectiles…
Lithuania is calling on NATO to help strengthen its air defenses after a drone carrying 2 kilograms of explosives entered the country from Belarus and crashed in a military training area. Defense Minister Dovilė Šakalienė and Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys sent a letter to NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte to request the deployment of additional, “even…
A top Philippine security official on Tuesday condemned China’s latest rocket launch, which caused suspected debris to fall near a western Philippine province. Authorities said the incident sparked alarm and posed a danger to people, ships, and aircraft. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage from the suspected Chinese rocket debris that fell…
The United States Embassy in Zambia ordered all U.S. government personnel Wednesday to leave a region in the north of the country affected by a toxic spill from a Chinese-owned mine that happened six months ago. The embassy said in an alert on social media that new information revealed that “hazardous and carcinogenic substances” including…
Nearly 60,000 people have fled Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province in two weeks, a United Nations agency has said, amid a years-long rebellion by fighters affiliated with ISIL (ISIS). The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement on Tuesday that escalating attacks that began on July 20 had displaced 57,034 people, or 13,343…
CrowdStrike’s latest Threat Report includes new information about China’s increased targeting of North American telecommunications companies, Russia’s continued efforts to support its invasion of Ukraine with cyberespionage, and other trends the security firm witnessed from July 2024 to June 2025. (Presumably excluding the period during which a faulty update to its software brought down global…
Dozens of people were missing after a fast-moving surge of water and mud smashed into a town in India’s Himalayan region on Tuesday, tearing down a mountain valley and demolishing buildings, killing at least five people. Videos broadcast on Indian media showed a terrifying river of muddy water engulf the town of Dharali in Uttarakhand…
Microsoft is making OpenAI’s new free and open GPT model, gpt-oss-20b, available to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry, the tech giant’s platform that lets users tap AI features, APIs, and popular open-source models on their computers. The company said in a blog post that gpt‑oss-20b is “tool-savvy and lightweight,” adding: “Optimized for agentic…
Microsoft says it has created an advanced AI system that can reverse-engineer and identify malicious software on its own, without human assistance. The prototype system, called Project Ire, automatically dissects software files to understand how they work, what they do, and whether they’re dangerous. This kind of deep analysis is typically performed by human security…
Amazon.com Inc. plans to make OpenAI’s latest artificial intelligence models available to customers, the first time the cloud computing giant has offered products from the leading AI startup. Amazon will offer the tools on its Bedrock and SageMaker platforms and said that their advanced reasoning capabilities make them suited for AI agents. The OpenAI models…
As the US and China look for any sort of leverage in a prolonged trade fight, Beijing sees an opportunity to win over the world by taking a stand against the Trump administration’s plans to track high-end chips. Chinese internet regulators last week summoned Nvidia Corp. staff over alleged security risks with its less-advanced H20…
Agility Robotics and Boston Dynamics, two prominent humanoid robotics developers, are experiencing leadership changes. Aaron Saunders, chief technology officer at Boston Dynamics, announced on LinkedIn that he is stepping down from that role. And Melonee Wise, chief product officer at Agility Robotics, is leaving the company at the end of the month, according to The…
In a new apartment in Tel Aviv, the internet-connected lights go out. The smart shutters covering its four living room and kitchen windows start to roll up simultaneously. And a connected boiler is remotely turned on, ready to start warming up the stylish flat. The apartment’s residents didn’t trigger any of these actions. They didn’t…
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) in the US turned to an often overlooked particle for storing and processing quantum information to overcome the fragility of quantum computers and make them more universal in the near future. Positioning one such particle in a quantum computer can help overcome errors in quantum computing, a…
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