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Cyber Espionage Likely Supporting China’s Arctic Aspirations

It is increasingly evident that China believes the timing is right for it to aggressively push its national interests. One area that often gets overlooked when looking at China’s expansionism is its interests in the Arctic. China’s interest in the area is not a secret, as it has promoted itself as a legitimate “Arctic State”…
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Global Supply Chains and Chinese Military-Civil Fusion (MCF)

The U.S. DoD has embarked on a strategic transformation. Central to this transformation are supply chains. Specifically, an understanding and reduction of the reliance by U.S. military systems on foreign components, subcomponents, materials, and software. “Made in America” is an objective, rectifying supply chain security concerns with American-made components, subcomponents, materials, and software. As it…
Clapper and Ashley on Joint Ops/Intel Operations, Decision-making, the History and Future of Intelligence and Cyber Threats

We started the OODAcast as a way of highlighting insights and lessons learned from leaders and decision-makers in the OODA Network. In the Spring of 2021, Bob Gourley had a conversation with General Jim Clapper and Lieutenant General Robert Ashley. Threads that emerge in these conversations include the nature and history of intelligence, the importance…
The Future of War, Information, AI Systems and Intelligence Analysis

The U.S. is in a struggle to maintain its dominance in air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace over countries with capabilities increasingly on par in all domains with that of the U.S. In addition, information (in all its forms) is the center of gravity of a broad set of challenges faced by the United States.…
Quantum Computing Use Cases and Post-Quantum Cryptography

Quantum computing is fascinating, complex, highly technical, sometimes daunting to conceptualize technological breakthrough and driver of the future marketplace. So yes, the promise of quantum computing will happen and is happening. The question is how quantum will have an impact during a growth phase in which the capital expenditure capabilities and strategic concerns are driven…
Intelligence, Afghanistan, and Hedging Bets

I am a member of OODA Loop. The few discussions that I have been able to listen to thus far were extremely informative, especially the most recent one on Afghanistan and intelligence issues. It prompted a few comments on intelligence collection and hedging bets amongst regional and great power players in Afghanistan. This article was…
Zero Trust Will Yield Zero Results Without A Risk Analysis

Over the past four years there has been an avalanche of new Zero Trust products. However during the same period there has been no measurable reduction in cyber breaches. Zero Trust is a concept where an organization has Zero Trust in a specific individual, supplier or technology that is the source of their cyber risk.…
Decision-Making Inside the CIA Counterterrorism Center Before, During and After 9/11

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. Themes emerge throughout these interviews on topics such as how clearly the intelligence community warned of the pending attacks, the early preparedness of a response by the…
A CIA Officer and Delta Force Operator Share Perspectives on 9/11

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. Themes emerge throughout these interviews on topics such as how clearly the intelligence community warned of the pending attacks, the early preparedness of a response by the…
The Next Evolution of Ransomware Gangs: Collaboration

Ransomware gangs continue to evolve their tactics to stay one step ahead of network defenders and those tracking their developments. Increased reporting that ransomware gangs – particularly Russian groups – are collaborating with one another is another example of this type of evolution. The joining of forces enables these groups to share advice, targeting information…
Cybersecurity Sensemaking: USG Initiatives and Updates

The Cybersecurity Sensemaking page was recently updated with the USG Cybersecurity Initiatives and Updates page. We need to make sense of and look at the patterns found between interagency cybersecurity initiatives, cybersecurity organizations, and private sector partnerships (specifically the technology sector) throughout the USG. In the pilot stages of this research, we will first try…
Labor Day Weekend Ransomware Warnings: U.S. warns firms to be on guard against hostile network activity

In a press briefing at the White House yesterday, White House deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger reinforced the warning the FBI and CISA released a few days ago. Officials acknowledged that the threats over the weekend were not specific, but “we do have this history.” The largest incidents in 2021 – Colonial Pipeline, JBS…
Checkers, Chess and 围棋 (Wéiqí – aka Go): When It Comes to Games in Cyberspace, China May Be the Master

Checkers is the ultimate game of tactical engagement where two competitors push their forces forward in the attempt to conquer his foe by capturing all of his pieces. Chess is a more strategic option. Whereas checkers perhaps best exemplifies a single engagement of a battle, chess represents the entire battle, requiring a strategic vision that…
August 2021 OODA Loop Monthly Meeting Generates Actionable Insights Into A Chaotic World

OODA Network members are invited to participate in a monthly video call to discuss items of common interest to our membership. These highly collaborative sessions are always a great way for our members to meet and interact with each other while talking about topics like global risks, emerging technologies, cybersecurity, and current or future events…
Global Supply Chain Sensemaking Page – an OODALoop Dynamic Resource

This page serves as a dynamic resource for OODA Network members looking for Global Supply Chain information to drive their decision-making process. It is in a formative stage, with recent developments and previous OODALoop coverage and analysis grouped into the following categories: Pandemic Disruptions; Technology, Platforms and Supply Chain Intelligence; Case Study: The Global Semiconductors Supply Chain; Supply Chains and Forced Labor; and…

Briefs

Biden to Veto Attempt to Overturn SEC Cyber Incident Disclosure Rules

The White House has announced that President Biden would veto an attempt by Republican lawmakers to overturn the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recently implemented cyber incident disclosure rules. The rules, which took effect on December 18, 2023, require public companies to disclose material breaches within four business days of determining their material impact. The…
Grateful for E.U. Aid, Ukraine Now Waits for the United States

The European Union approved an assistance package of about $54 billion for Ukraine to help alleviate a potentially severe financial crisis. The money will cover pensions, payments to people displaced by war, and routine outlays such as salaries for teachers and doctors. In thanking the EU, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, also alluded to uncertainty over…
31 People Arrested in Global Cybercrime Crackdown

In a global operation named Synergia, led by Interpol and spanning 50 countries, law enforcement arrested 31 individuals targeting ransomware, banking malware, and phishing. The operation ran from September to November 2023 and identified over 1,300 suspicious command-and-control servers, with 70% taken down. Most of the seized servers were in Europe, with additional takedowns in…
Iran Slows Production of Enriched Uranium, the U.N.’s Nuclear Watchdog Says

In another indication that Iran may be seeking to de-escalate its confrontation with the United States, United Nations nuclear inspectors are seeing some signs that Tehran is lifting its foot, even if just a bit, on the acceleration of its nuclear program. Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said…
DraftKings Hacker Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison

Joseph Garrison, a 19-year-old from Wisconsin, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his involvement in a credential stuffing attack on a fantasy sports and betting website, believed to be DraftKings. In November 2022, Garrison used username and password pairs from other data breaches to access around 60,000 user accounts using the same…
US approves plan for strikes on Iran-linked targets in Iraq, Syria: Report

The United States has reportedly approved a plan to attack Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for the drone attack that killed three American soldiers five days ago. Iran has denied involvement in the drone strike in Jordan. There have not been many details about America’s plan but quoting unnamed US officials, weather…
OpenAI study reveals surprising role of AI in future biological threat creation

OpenAI, the research organization behind the powerful language model GPT-4, has released a new study that examines the possibility of using AI to assist in creating biological threats. The study, which involved both biology experts and students, found that GPT-4 provides “at most a mild uplift” in biological threat creation accuracy, compared to the baseline…
AI2 open sources text-generating AI models — and the data used to train them

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2), the nonprofit AI research institute founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is releasing several GenAI language models it claims are more “open” than others — and, importantly, licensed in such a way that developers can use them unfettered for training, experimentation and even commercialization. Called OLMo, an acronym…
Google launches an AI-powered image generator

Taylor Swift deepfakes be damned, Google is releasing a new AI-powered tool, ImageFX, for image creation. Underpinned by Imagen 2, a GenAI image model developed by Google’s DeepMind team, ImageFX offers a prompt-based UI to create and edit images. That’s no different than tools like OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, Midjourney, Meta’s Imagine with Meta AI and…
Mistral CEO confirms ‘leak’ of new open source AI model nearing GPT-4 performance

The past few days have been a wild ride for the growing open source AI community — even by its fast-moving and freewheeling standards. Here’s the quick chronology: on or about January 28, a user with the handle “Miqu Dev” posted a set of files on HuggingFace, the leading open source AI model and code…
Mastercard jumps into generative AI race

Payments giant Mastercard says it has built its own proprietary generative artificial intelligence model to help thousands of banks in its network detect and root out fraudulent transactions. The company told CNBC exclusively that its new advanced AI model, Decision Intelligence Pro, will allow banks to better assess suspicious transactions on its network in real-time…
Philippines plans to buy submarines to defend sovereignty in South China Sea – senior official

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr initiated the third phase of the military’s modernization plan, which will include the acquisition of the nation’s first submarine for external defense purposes. A Philippine Navy spokesperson stated the purchase of multiple submarines and other modernization efforts will help the country defend its territorial sovereignty. The spokesperson also claimed that…
US Sanctions Two ISIS-Affiliated ‘Cybersecurity Experts’

The US Treasury Department announced sanctions against two Egyptian nationals who provided cybersecurity services to ISIS. Mu’min Al-Mawji Mahmud Salim provided cybersecurity training to ISIS supporters and procured web servers for ISIS platforms through his online service, Electronic Horizons Foundation (EHF). Mu’min Al-Mawji’s partner, Sarah Jamal Muhammad Al-Sayyid, also helped run EHF through logistical management…
Iran’s Guards pull officers from Syria after Israeli strikes

Reuters sources confirmed that Iran has pulled many of its senior officers and military advisers out of Syria due to targeted Israeli strikes against IRGC officials. Since December, Israeli air strikes have killed a top intelligence general, a senior Iran-Syria military adviser, and four other IRGC members in Syria. The sources said that Iran is…
West Africa’s ‘Brexit’ moment spells trouble for the region

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger recently announced their intentions to leave the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The economic and political block currently enables visa-free travel between its member states and organizes $150 billion a year in trade. Niger conducts the vast majority of its trade with neighboring ECOWAS nations, and many…
US Gov Disrupts SOHO Router Botnet Used by Chinese APT Volt Typhoon

The U.S. Justice Department announced on Wednesday that it took down a Chinese state-sponsored botnet that operated on Cisco and Netgear routers that did not have up-to-date security software. The Justice Department stated that Volt Typhoon had spread the botnet, called “KV Botnet,” to thousands of organizations in the critical infrastructure, government, construction, and education…
Farmers’ anger spreads in Europe, governments promise to help

Farmers from a handful of European countries gathered near an EU summit in Brussels to protest farming policies they consider detrimentally restrictive. Farmer protests have also recently occurred in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Greece, and Germany over similar issues. The farmers claim that over-ambitious green policies and environmental restrictions hamper their ability to produce food…
Two More Individuals Charged for DraftKings Hacking

The U.S. Justice Department indicted Joseph Garrison on May 18, 2023 for using leaked login credentials for thousands of DraftKings accounts to steal from users and sell their login information on online stores. The Justice Department recently indicted two more individuals, Nathan Austad (19) and Kamerin Stokes (21), for their participation in the scheme. Austad…
Mercedes Source Code Exposed by Leaked GitHub Token

RedHunt Labs recently reported that a Mercedes-Benz employee leaked a GitHub token that provided unrestricted access to Mercedes source code stored in an Internal GitHub Enterprise Server. The breach occurred on September 29, 2023, and the RedHunt Labs team discovered the leak on January 11. Mercedes-Benz revoked the compromised GitHub token on January 24, two…
ChatGPT violated European privacy laws, Italy tells chatbot maker Open

Italian regulators said they told OpenAI that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot has violated European Union’s stringent data privacy rules. The country’s data protection authority, known as Garante, said Monday that it notified San Francisco-based OpenAI of breaches of the EU rules, known as General Data Protection Regulation. The watchdog started investigating ChatGPT last year,…
Microsoft and OpenAI are in talks to inject $500 million into humanoid robotics startup Figure AI

Microsoft and OpenAI are said to be exploring options to invest up to $500 million in a humanoid robotics startup, Bloomberg reported. The tech heavyweights are in talks with Figure AI, which wants to “deploy autonomous humanoid workers” around the world, per its website. A person with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg that the…
Google Splits Up a Key AI Ethics Watchdog

When Google CEO Sundar Pichai emailed his workers the company priorities for 2024 this month, developing AI responsibly was top of the list. Some employees now wonder if Google can live up to that goal. The small team that has served as its primary internal AI ethics watchdog has lost its leader and is being…
Ripple co-founder reports unauthorized access to some personal XRP accounts

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen said Wednesday that there had been “unauthorized access” to “a few of my personal XRP accounts.” His comments followed a post on X from crypto sleuth ZachXBT, who said that it appeared Ripple “was hacked” for about 213 million XRP worth $112.5 million. “Yesterday, there was unauthorized access to a few…
DeFi Protocol Abracadabra Finance Suffers $6.5 Million Hack

Digital assets associated with the decentralized finance (DeFi) project Abracadabra Finance, including its Magic Internet Money (MIM) stablecoin, values fell after its team confirmed an exploit of the platform. In a Jan. 30 post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), the project’s team acknowledged an ongoing exploit involving certain Ethereum cauldrons. “Our engineering team…
Musk’s Neuralink implants brain chip in its first human subject

Brain chip start-up Neuralink implanted a device in its first live human subject Sunday, Elon Musk, the company’s founder, said on social media. The patient “is recovering well,” Musk wrote Monday, adding that initial data from the device was promising. Placed in the part of the brain that plans movements, the device is designed to interpret…
Meta’s OK-Robot performs zero-shot pick-and-drop in unseen environments

There have been many advances in vision-language models (VLM) that can match natural language queries to objects in a visual scene. And researchers are experimenting with how these models can be applied to robotics systems, which are still lagging in generalizing their abilities. A new paper by researchers at Meta AI and New York University…
Hottest Job in Corporate America? The Executive in Charge of A.I.

In September, the Mayo Clinic in Arizona created a first-of-its-kind job at the hospital system: chief artificial intelligence officer. Doctors at the Arizona site, which has facilities in Phoenix and Scottsdale, had experimented with A.I. for years. But after ChatGPT’s release in 2022 and an ensuing frenzy over the technology, the hospital decided it needed…
China is building its own AI at a rapid pace

China’s tech giants are racing to catch up in the AI arms race. The Chinese government has approved more than 40 AI models in the past six months since it began this process, according to local media reports cited by Reuters, as tech companies seek to make up ground on US rivals like OpenAI. That…
Israeli Government: Smallest of SMBs Hit Hardest in Cyberattacks

Some 33,000 small and medium sized businesses in Israel experienced a cyber attack last year, with 7,000 suffering major damage. new data shows that 5% of the businesses surveyed reported that they suffered from some form of cyber attack. The smallest businesses, those with five to 20 employees, were hit the most. Business in the…
Iran’s ‘Cyber Centers’ Dodge Sanctions to Sell Cyber Operations

Public records and documents leaked by Iranian anti-government groups suggest that several Middle Eastern cybersecurity firms are part of networks of government officials and cybersecurity specialists that have links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The firms have contributed to, or are responsible for, cyber attacks on democratic processes in Western countries, have targeted industrial…
SolarWinds Files Motion to Dismiss SEC Lawsuit

In a filing with the US Southern District Court of New York, SolarWinds argued that the SEC was outside of its depth of expertise as well as its scope of authority when charging SolarWinds and its Chief Information Security officer with mishandling the 2020 Russian-backed cyber attack on its Orion platform. The SEC charged SolarWinds…
Israeli forces kill three Palestinian fighters in West Bank hospital raid

Israeli forces killed three members of Palestinian armed groups in. hospital in the occupied West Bank. Footage showed a unit was disguised as medics and other civilians making their way through the hospital with rifles. The Israeli military said the men were hiding in the Jenin hospital, and that one was about to carry out…
At least 10 killed in overnight attack by Baloch rebels in Pakistan

At least six fighters and four security officials were killed in an attack overnight in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The attackers belonged to the Balochistan Liberation Army and targeted military and security installations with guns and rockets in Mach, 65km south of Quetta, Balochistan’s capital. After facing resistance, the attackers moved to less secure areas. There…
Hamas studying Gaza truce plan as Israeli hardliners threaten PM

Hamas has confirmed that it is reviewing a proposal for a truce in Gaza while members of the Israeli government have threatened to collapse the coalition if a deal is not to their liking. The proposal was developed in Paris over the weekend to halt the war and enable the exchange of Israeli and Palestinian…
China approves over 40 AI models for public use in past six months

China has approved more than 40 artificial intelligence (AI) models for public use in the first six months since authorities began the approval process, as the country strives to catch up to the U.S. in AI development, according to Chinese media. Chinese regulators granted approvals to a total of 14 large language models (LLM) for…
Google’s Lumiere brings AI video closer to real than unreal

Google’s new video generation AI model Lumiere uses a new diffusion model called Space-Time-U-Net, or STUNet, that figures out where things are in a video (space) and how they simultaneously move and change (time). Ars Technica reports this method lets Lumiere create the video in one process instead of putting smaller still frames together. Lumiere starts…
Amazon Drops $1.4 Billion iRobot Deal After EU Veto Threat IRobot CEO steps down and company cuts

Amazon.com Inc. has abandoned its planned $1.4 billion acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot Corp. after clashing with European Union regulators who had threatened to block the deal. The end of the deal is a sign of the intense pressure Amazon is facing to prove its actions don’t harm competition, as its influence grows in retail,…
Nvidia’s Big Tech Rivals Put Their Own A.I. Chips on the Table

In September, Amazon said it would invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, a San Francisco start-up working on artificial intelligence. Soon after, an Amazon executive sent a private message to an executive at another company. He said Anthropic had won the deal because it agreed to build its A.I. using specialized computer chips designed…
Anthropic confirms it suffered a data leak

It’s been an eventful week for AI startup Anthropic, creator of the Claude family of large language models (LLMs) and associated chatbots. The company says that on Monday, January 22nd, it became aware that a contractor inadvertently sent a file containing non-sensitive customer information to a third party. The file detailed a “subset” of customer…
North Korea’s Kim ‘Guided’ Submarine-Launched Cruise Missile Test: KCNA

North Korean state media say the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, oversaw the launch of two submarine-launched cruise missiles (SLCM), the second test of the weapon within days. They were testing the newly-developed Pulhwasal-3-31 missiles, which is a new generation of nuclear capable cruise missiles as North Korea seeks to enhance the weapons of the…
Iran Launches Three Satellites amid Rising Tensions with Western Powers

Iran has successfully launched three satellites for the first time using its carrier rocket developed by the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics. The West fears this milestone will boost Tehran’s ballistic program. The launch comes amid heightened tensions in the wider Middle East over Israel’s continued war on the Gaza Strip, sparking fears…
These are the Countries that have said They Will Pause Funding to UNRWA

Several countries said over the weekend that they would suspend funding for the United Nations agency that provides food, water and other essential services for Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. These announcements come after Israel accused a dozen employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) of participating in the Oct. 7…
Biden Vows to Retaliate After Strike Against American Forces in Jordan

The low-level attacks by Iranian proxy groups on American troops in the Middle East have now turned deadly and intensified the pressure on President Biden to respond. In the attack, three American service members were killed and two dozen injured by a drone in Jordan. Until now, the president has carefully calibrated his responses to…
New WhatsApp Leak Details Huge Update For All iPhone Users

WhatsApp has had a leak revealing a huge upgrade coming for iPhone users. The first upgrade for iPhone users is the soon release of cue passkeys. These link WhatsApp accounts to a device’s biometric or PIN security, rather than relying on SMS codes. The further away upgrade for iPhone users is to collate non WhatsApp…
Elusive Chinese Cyberspy Group Hijacks Software Updates to Deliver Malware

The Chinese cyberespionage group, Blackwood, has been caught delivering malware to entities in China and Japan. Blackwood attacks are characterized by the deployment of NSPX30, a sophisticated implant that includes a backdoor, a dropper, installers, loaders, and an orchestrator, and which can hide its command-and-control (C&C) communication through packet interception. According to ESET, Blackwood likely…
Series of Cyberattacks Hit Ukrainian Critical Infrastructure Organizations

Several Ukrainian critical infrastructure entities were hit in cyber attacks this week. Naftogaz, the country’s largest owned oil and gas company, was one of the organizations that was attacked. The CEO of Ukrposhta, Ukraine’s national postal service provider, said that its postal operating services were disrupted after attackers hit the network infrastructure of its partners.…
FTC investigating Microsoft, Amazon, and Google investments into OpenAI and Anthropic

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened an inquiry into the investments of Big Tech companies that provide cloud services to smaller AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. The FTC sent letters to Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI, requiring the companies to explain the impact these investments have on the competitive landscape of generative AI. The…
Elon Musk’s AI start-up seeks to raise $6bn from investors to challenge OpenAI

Elon Musk’s xAI is in talks to raise up to $6bn, as the Tesla and X chief looks to global investors, including in Hong Kong, to finance his challenge to Microsoft-backed OpenAI. The billionaire’s artificial intelligence start-up has courted wealthy individuals and investors around the world in recent weeks, according to multiple people familiar with…
Humanoid Robot Startup Debuts Electric, Somersaulting Robot

We were just writing about dramatic positive exponential technology of humanoid robots and what we expect over the next 12 months. Now this. MagicLab, a humanoid robotics startup, has debuted a prototype of its electric bipedal robot. In a video release, the robot is shown performing front flips, in a feat of engineering that the…
Baidu’s Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung’s new Galaxy S24 smartphones

Baidu AI Cloud will be integrating its Ernie chatbot into Samsung’s Galaxy S24 smartphones, allowing users to translate calls in real time, among other features. Ernie is the Chinese tech giant’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence technology that’s able to generate humanlike responses to users’ prompts. It comes a week…
US and Iraq Agree to Start Talks to End Presence of US-Led Coalition

The United States and Iraq have agreed to start talks on the future of the US-led military coalition in Iraq with the aim of setting a timetable for a phased withdrawal of troops and the coalition’s end, both governments have announced. The US has been present in Iraq since its 2003 invasion. US combat forces…
Pacific Island Tuvalu Votes as Ties with Taiwan in Spotlight

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has voted in a national election that is being closely watched by China, Taiwan, the United States and its ally Australia, amid a tussle for influence in the region. A contest for influence in the Pacific between China and the US has seen Tuvalu courted, with Washington recently pledging…
U.S., Sensing Opportunity, Makes New Push for Gaza Cease-Fire

William Burns, the C.I.A. director, plans to meet Israeli, Egyptian and Qatari officials in Europe to try to secure a deal to release hostages being held in the Gaza Strip and broker a prolonged cease-fire. U.S. officials said Israel’s apparent willingness to agree to a cessation of hostilities in return for the release of more…
North Korea set new record by number of crypto hacks in 2023, data shows

North Korea-linked hackers stole nearly $430 million from decentralized finance and also targeted centralized services, exchanges, and wallet providers in 2023. Chainalysis, a blockchain forensic firm, says North Korea-affiliated hacking groups hit record in terms of attempted attacks against decentralized finance (defi) as well as centralized platforms like exchanges in 2023. According to the firm’s…
OpenAI’s Altman discussed chip-making venture with members of Congress

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has had discussions with members of Congress about increasing the world’s supply of advanced computer chips necessary to train and run artificial intelligence programs as he seeks to launch a hugely expensive venture to build new chip factories. Altman has discussed where and how to build new semiconductor factories, known in…
The start-ups making robots a reality

Is it harder for machines to mimic the way humans move or the way humans think? If you had asked me this question a decade ago, my answer would have been “think.” So much of how the brain works is still a mystery. And yet, in just the last year, advancements in artificial intelligence have…
Google settles AI-related chip patent lawsuit that sought $1.67 bln

Google, opens new tab on Wednesday reached a settlement in a patent infringement lawsuit over chips that power the company’s artificial-intelligence technology, according to a filing in Massachusetts federal court. The settlement comes the same day that closing arguments were scheduled to begin in a trial on Singular Computing’s lawsuit, which had sought $1.67 billion…
Tech companies are slashing thousands of jobs as they pivot toward AI

SAP is the latest big tech player to cut jobs as it pours money into AI, with the German software giant announcing this week that it is investing more than $2 billion to integrate artificial intelligence into its business as part of what it called “transformation program.” At the same time, the company said Tuesday…
Ring Will No Longer Allow Police to Request Doorbell Camera Footage From Users

Ring announced in a blog post on Wednesday that it will remove its “Request for Assistance” tool that allowed police departments and other emergency services to request footage captured on the doorbell cameras. Police and other services will still be able to post public messages on Ring’s Neighbors app to share safety tips and relevant…
US envoy sees rapid F-16s sale to Turkey after Sweden NATO bid sign-off

Turkey’s parliament ratified Sweden’s bid for NATO membership on Tuesday, and now only Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s final approval remains. U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Jeff Flake stated that President Erdogan’s final approval would immediately allow the U.S. State Department to send Congress notification of the $20 billion F-16 sale that has served as an incentive…