Google Security Engineering and The Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (in collaboration with OpenAI) have sorted through the hype - and done some serious thinking and formal …
Two Chinese Supercomputers (with Mystery Hardware Components) Go Online
Conspicuous, controversial and notorious is the Chinese unwillingness to participate in global benchmarking list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. So, the "top 500" list goes out - with …
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Under Fire, CISA’s JCDC Continues Astride with 2024 Priorities
We have been very vocal boosters of CISA, the efforts of CISA leadership, and since its inception, the work of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC). And we continue in our support of both …
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The Future of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base: Challenges and Opportunities
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is best in class research and analysis, judged against both public or private sector standards. In a recent report, the CRS broke down the vital questions …
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Nvidia Hardware Is Eating the World
Talking to Jenson Huang should come with a warning label. The Nvidia CEO is so invested in where AI is headed that, after nearly 90 minutes of spirited conversation, I came away convinced the future …
Microsoft and OpenAI Issue a Stark Report and a $10M Bounty from the State Department
Competing cyber capabilities (on a spectrum from nation-state to non-state actors alike) and cyber-based conflict will continue to restructure, reformulate, and transform the very essence of what …
Rice and Fertilizer are the Linchpins of Global Food Insecurity
Recent restrictions on rice exports by India prompt this analysis of the on the ground conditions of global food insecurity, returning to some of the themes we explored in The Future of Food …
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Will The AI Safety Institute – and the Consortium Model – Insure an AI-safe Future?
Consistent with our recent analysis of government regulation (or overregulation?) of AI, and the introduction of the concept of the "decontrol" of AI, the recent launch of the AI Safety Institute …
US warned allies about Russian space, nuclear capabilities, source says
Representative Mike Turner, Republican chair of the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee, publicly called for the declassification of intelligence regarding a "serious national …
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Globalization Transformed: Where Should Your Organization “Nearshore” and/or “Friendshore”?
Various perspectives - on Latin American nearshoring and Indo-Pacific "friendshoring" with allied nations in an effort to secure and shorten global supply chains - as well as the emergence of "China …