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Democratization of Danger: Preserving Liberty and Human Agency in the Age of Super-Empowered Individuals

By Dr. David Bray and Jeff Jonas Executive Summary The democratization of technology has created the democratization of danger. Individuals and small groups can now deploy drones, personal robots, gene-editing tools, and other accessible technologies to cause harm that once required nation-state resources. The most dangerous response to this reality is fear-driven overreach—a “knee-jerk overswing”…
The Hidden Cost of AI Acceleration: The AI Productivity J-Curve and Why Capability Arrives Before Results

The emerging evidence suggests AI is not failing because it lacks capability, but because organizations are stalling at the bottom of a productivity J-curve, where measurement gaps, governance friction, and rework overwhelm early gains.
Healthcare as Early Warning System: AI, Liquidity, and Venture Capital’s Reset

Healthcare was among the first sectors to operationalize AI—and is now the first to test its limits. As investment concentrates and expectations harden, the sector offers early lessons on where AI creates durable value.
Cyber Operations Against Venezuela: How Washington Is Reimagining Cyber Power

Today’s geopolitical realities are that cyber power sits alongside diplomacy and military force as a fundamental instrument of statecraft.
The January 2026 OODA Network Meeting: AI’s Hidden Dependencies – Complex Systems and Weak Governance

Guest speakers Junaid Islam, Alan Boehme, and Bob Flores contextualized a growing reality: as AI becomes inseparable from critical infrastructure, recurring outages and weak governance are turning innovation into a systemic risk.
The Great Firewall of China: Internet Sovereignty, Behavior by Design, and Internet Architecture as Cognitive Weapon

An unprecedented leak (~500+ GB) exposes the technical architecture, bureaucratic ecosystem, operational logic, and geopolitical implications of China’s censorship superstructure.
The G7 and Europol Publish Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Roadmaps for Financial Services

Two roadmaps from The G7 Cyber Expert Group and Europol outline how financial authorities and institutions should move from Quantum awareness to disciplined, risk-based execution.
The Future of Cognitive Warfare

As adversaries weaponize perception, trust, and decision-making – often below the threshold of armed conflict – the battle for cognitive superiority is becoming decisive.
The Infinite Attack Surface of Agentic AI

As autonomous, goal-driven systems move from copilots to decision-makers, Agentic AI is reshaping warfare, intelligence, and influence operations – while simultaneously expanding the attack surface across data, models, agents, and human trust.
Canadian Prime Minister Carney Believes Rules-based International Order Has Ruptured

For our purposes, the recent stoic, realpolitik “capture” of a baseline reality by the Canadian Prime Minister puts a geopolitical stake in the ground amidst an information ecosystem ripe with misinformation and spectacle.
Whiplash in the Western Hemisphere: Greenland, Davos, and Alliance Dynamics

Today, the U.S. used the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos to escalate economic and diplomatic pressure on Europe over Greenland, testing alliance norms, market stability, and the limits of the post WWII treaty-based order.
Trump’s Cyber Playbook: The Case for U.S. Leadership Beyond UN Norms

It appears that Washington will reposition itself to a more unilateral, capability-driven, and strategically offensive-leaning posture.
Venture Capital’s Discipline Reset: Key Signals from SVB and the Vencapital Boston Venture Finance Summit

At the SVB/Vencapital Boston Venture Finance Summit 2025, panelists and subject matter experts converged on a single conclusion: venture capital has entered a discipline-first phase.
Sovereign Currency on the Blockchain: Malaysia’s Ringgit Stablecoin Play for APAC Trade

Malaysia has entered the digital asset frontier with the launch of RMJDT, a Ringgit-backed stablecoin tied to the Malaysia Blockchain Infrastructure (MBI) and supported by a substantial crypto treasury.
The Vertex Project’s Insider Threat Challenge

The Vertex Project recently debuted a hands-on insider threat analysis exercise – the Vertex Insider Threat Challenge – designed to bring realistic investigative scenarios to intelligence analysts and security practitioners.