Amazon, Airbnb, and Uber are all examples of disintermediation (innovation that undermines established or incumbent structures of a market, organization, or industry sector). Moody's went with the …
Elon Musk Says He’s Boosting Tesla Pay to Stop OpenAI From Poaching
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said the automaker has been boosting pay for artificial intelligence engineers as it faces a war over talent. “Tesla is increasing comp (contingent on …
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Spatial AI is the Future of Human-Computer Interaction and the Metaverse
Regular readers of the OODA Loop know that we cover exponential technologies daily and expect disproportionate disruption when these technologies start to converge. In this post, we explore AI + an …
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Widespread European Farmer Protests, Some Violent, are Another Dispatch from The Ministry for the Future
In this, the fifth installment in our "Dispatches from the Ministry for the Future" series, we take the time to do more of a deep dive into the speculative fiction/science fiction novel that inspired …
Hypersonic Vehicles are a Technological Tie that Binds U.S.-Sino Researchers
A report from the Frontier Assessments Unit is a deep dive into hypersonic vehicle research with a very specific framing: that of the collaborative efforts between U.S. universities and their …
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Whistleblowers call out AI’s flaws
Tech firms pushing to deploy AI fast are facing mounting pushback from whistleblowers who say that generative AI products aren't ready or safe for broad distribution. Previous high-profile …
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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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 …
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The Inaugural U.S. National Defense Industrial Strategy
The first-ever National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) was released last week by The United States Department of Defense (DoD). THE NDIS "offers a strategic vision to coordinate and prioritize …
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Does the U.S. Have a “Talent Superpower Strategy”?
China has articulated a "Talent Superpower Strategy." But does the U.S.have an equivalent workforce and talent strategy for educating, training, attracting and retaining the talent required for …
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