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Generative AI Like Viral ChatGPT Lands on DISA Technology Watch ListChatGPT, applauded by some for its potential to augment worker productivity and spurned by others over questions of bias and ethics, surpassed 1 million registered users withi...
By Bill Drexel
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Technology & National Security
The Pentagon Is Getting More Serious about AIIt’s unclear how much the Switchblades have been used in the conflict, but their presence underscore how the age of autonomous warfare has arrived, despite much of the debate ...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Overmatch Secrecy Needed as China, Russia Surveil US Navy, Experts SayProject Overmatch is the Navy’s contribution to Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or JADC2, the Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar push to connect disparate databases and forc...
By Bill Drexel
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Technology & National Security
Batteries Are the BattlefieldIt’s not just in battery supply chains where China plays a commanding role either. Across a spate of clean energy technologies—including wind power and solar panels—Beijing’s ...
By Sam Howell
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Technology & National Security
China surpassing US in key innovation metric and evolving from ‘imitator’, Washington report saysAnother challenge involving China, analysts said, is that its politics often drive tech policy, and Beijing can be adept at hiding weaknesses and avoiding transparency. This m...
By Alexandra Seymour
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Technology & National Security
China Is the World’s Biggest Face Recognition DealerIn recent years US lawmakers and presidents have expressed concern that China is gaining an edge over the US in AI technology. The report seems to offer hard evidence of one a...
By Alexandra Seymour
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Technology & National Security
Bargain Basement Bombers: Ukraine’s Homemade Drones Hit Russian ForcesSamuel Bendett, an expert Russian drones and adviser to both the CNA and CNAS, told me that in addition to flying commercial quadcopters, both sides are building drones. “Russ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Marines Outwitted an AI Security Camera by Hiding in a Cardboard Box and Pretending to Be TreesIn Paul Scharre’s new book Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Scharre recounts the story of one AI experiment that was disrupted by a squad of Ma...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
More Public Universities in the U.S. Block TikTokAnalysts said the bans have their merits despite these workarounds. Ms. Hannah Kelley, a technology and national security research assistant at the Centre for a New American S...
By Hannah Kelley
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Technology & National Security
Ukraine Zeroes In on Western Tanks in Bid to Rout RussiaValerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, told The Economist last month that Kyiv needs 300 tanks to achieve a decisive victory on the battlefield again...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Technology & National Security
All-Out Drone War in Ukraine Points to FutureBut the degree to which they are being used by both sides in Ukraine -- and the benefits they bring, as well as the threats they pose -- highlights the importance for militari...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
The Semiconductor MadmanForeign firms are forecast to supply over half of China’s chip consumption until at least 2026, according to IC Insights, a U.S. semiconductor research group. This is, of cour...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
The Dutch Get Ensnared in US-China Chips FightIn early October, the U.S. issued a new series of export restrictions targeting China's ability to manufacture advanced semiconductors and supercomputers — with the claim that...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
China Launches WTO Dispute over US Chip Export ControlsChina's initiation of a WTO dispute over the export controls did not surprise Martijn Rasser, director of the technology and national security program at the Washington-based ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
TikTok bans on government devices raise questions about platform’s futureLawmakers have become increasingly concerned that by downloading the app, government workers are giving the Chinese government potential access to their devices that it could ...
By Hannah Kelley
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Technology & National Security
The World’s Biggest Chipmaker Is Making a Multi-Billion Dollar Investment in the US Even Though It’ll Cost Way More to Make Chips There. Here’s Why It Decided to Do It Anyway.The factories will be partially subsidized by the US government through the CHIPS and Science Act, a package passed in August that provided $52 billion to boost US semiconduct...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
Biden’s China Tech Crackdown Leaves Xi With Few Ways to Hit BackAmong the most notable firms on that list is emerging chip equipment-maker Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Group Co., or SMEE, which could stifle Beijing’s efforts to cre...
By Martijn Rasser
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Pelosi Backs Adding TikTok Government Device Ban to Funding BillEmily Kilcrease, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and former deputy assistant U.S. trade representative, said she viewed "the move on the Hill mostly as...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Technology & National Security
Biden Is Touting a Multibillion-Dollar Chip Factory in Arizona as a Way to Save the Global Economy from China ThreatsThe bottom line: Despite being the largest foreign direct investment in US history, the Arizona plants are unlikely to protect the US economy from the risk of a Chinese invasi...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
Ukraine Suicide Drone Closer to Induction by Year’s-EndCiting drone expert Samuel Bendett, Forbes wrote that Ukraine has only a handful of Swifts left, limiting their further use. However, he added that the introduction of the new...
By Samuel Bendett