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Technology & National Security
The unanswered questions in America’s AI strategyThree years since the White House first publicly considered the U.S. government's role as a shepherd of artificial intelligence research, pivotal unanswered questions are stil...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Iran to begin injecting uranium gas into 1,044 centrifuges
Iran has announced it will take the next step in its stage-by-stage move away from its landmark nuclear deal by injecting gas into 1,044 centrifuges at its Fordow fuel enrichm...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Technology & National Security
Inside TikTok: A culture clash where U.S. views about censorship often were overridden by the Chinese bossesThe wildly popular short-video app TikTok has become one of the world’s fastest-growing social media platforms, known for its quirky memes and viral singalongs. But its happy-...
By Elsa B. Kania
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‘What’s Your Warrior?’: Army Looks Past Combat to Sign Up TeensThe U.S. Army is banking on surprising late teens, who may know nothing about the military, with a new multimillion-dollar advertising campaign designed to help recruit more t...
By Emma Moore
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US urges Taiwan to curb chip exports to China
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The US government is pushing Taiwan to restrict its biggest chipmaker from producing semiconductors for Huawei, the Chinese telecoms group, and to institute stricter controls ...
By Eric Sayers
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In A Remote Arctic Outpost, Norway Keeps Watch On Russia's Military Buildup
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There are precisely 525 stairs from the icy waters of the Barents Sea to the top of the observation post in the far northeast corner of Norway, along the Russian border. It's ...
By Jim Townsend
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North Korea, emboldened by Trump peril and Chinese allies, tries harder line
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Successful sanctions evasion, economic lifelines from China and U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment woes may be among the factors that have emboldened North Korea in nuc...
By Duyeon Kim
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Technology & National Security
Pentagon advisory board releases principles for ethical use of artificial intelligence in warfareHoping to prepare for what many see as a coming revolution in weaponry enabled by artificial intelligence ― and convince a skeptical public that it can apply such innovations ...
By Paul Scharre
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U.S.-Led Coalition Blocks Russia in Syria While Allowing Turkey to Terrorize the Kurds
The Trump administration is using firepower to block Iran and Russia from coming up from the south while ignoring the pleas of the Kurds to stop a Turkish invasion from the no...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
A Tech Group Suggests Limits for the Pentagon’s Use of AIThe Pentagon says artificial intelligence will help the US military become still more powerful. On Thursday, an advisory group including executives from Google, Microsoft, and...
By Paul Scharre
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India Will Have a Say in Whether China Dominates 5G
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Will Huawei Technologies build India’s 5G wireless networks? In the technological cold war between the U.S. and China, India—the world’s second-largest wireless market by numb...
By Rush Doshi
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Trump claim to Syrian oil raises many questions
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By claiming a right to Syria’s oil, President Donald Trump has added more complexity — as well as additional U.S. forces and time — to an American military mission he has twic...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Thousands of civilians flee Turkish attacks despite ceasefire deal
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Heavy attacks on Wednesday by Turkish-backed groups near Dirbasiya and Til Tamr displaced thousands of civilians despite the Russian-Turkish ceasefire agreed to last week. “T...
By Nicholas Heras
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US secrecy on Baghdadi raid exposes distrust of NATO ally Turkey
Islamic State (IS) group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was found and killed over the weekend in northern Syria just a few miles from the Turkish border in a US raid that evaded t...
By Nicholas Heras
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Comments on Seizing Syria Oil Reinforces Anti-American Sentiment, Experts Warn
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While U.S. President Donald Trump this week reiterated his administration's intention to keep some American troops in Syria to control the country's eastern oilfields, experts...
By Nicholas Heras
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The Shady Cryptocurrency Boom on the Post-Soviet Frontier
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At the edge of a lake on a fault line of the new Cold War stands a building that, depending on how you look at it, is either a relic of a failed revolution or the beating hear...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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As Russia makes 2020 play, Democratic campaigns say they are in the dark, and experts fear U.S. elections are vulnerable
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Several Democratic presidential campaigns targeted by a Russia-based operation on Facebook’s popular Instagram app said they had been unaware of the new foreign disinformation...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Technology & National Security
As AI joins battlefield, Pentagon seeks ethicistWhen the chief of the Pentagon’s new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center briefed reporters recently, he made a point of emphasizing the imminently practical – even potentiall...
By Paul Scharre
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As Kurds Tracked ISIS Leader, U.S. Withdrawal Threw Raid Into Turmoil
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When the international manhunt for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, zoomed in on a village in northwestern Syria, the United States turned to its local a...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump, Pentagon Diverge on Need to Control Syrian Oil Fields
Pentagon leaders and President Donald Trump diverged Monday on the rationale behind keeping U.S. forces in northeastern Syria, with the president renewing his insistence that ...
By Nicholas Heras
