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The military might showed off at China’s 70th anniversary parade moved some Chinese to tears. Here’s whyThe pomp, drama and advanced military technology on display at the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China sent a dramatic, carefully-rehearsed message to the world...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Digital silk road: How China is creating a new global data highwayChina has a massive blueprint for boosting its economic growth, and part of the project is called the “Digital Silk Road.”Not to be confused with the online darknet marketplac...
By Elsa B. Kania
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EW, Cyber Require Next-Gen Hardware: ConleyThe military is investing heavily in artificial intelligence — but AI alone is not enough. You need hardware that can handle your high-powered algorithms, without taking up so...
By Paul Scharre
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Nearly 100 countries have military drones, and it's changing the way the world prepares for warThe number of countries with military drones has skyrocketed over the past decade, a new report revealed, showing that nearly 100 countries have this kind of technology incorp...
By Michael Horowitz
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U.S. Looks to Boost Non-Military AI ResearchMore than a year has passed since the U.S. government began taking the first steps into officially supporting artificial intelligence research. Now, AI has its own category in...
By Martijn Rasser
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2020 Democratic Primary Debates: Questions for the CandidatesBy Neil Bhatiya, Susanna V. Blume, Kara Frederick, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Daniel Kliman, Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Kayla M. Williams
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Coming Soon to the Battlefield: Robots That Can KillWallops Island — a remote, marshy spit of land along the eastern shore of Virginia, near a famed national refuge for horses — is mostly known as a launch site for government a...
By Robert O. Work
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Strangelove redux: US experts propose having AI control nuclear weaponsHypersonic missiles, stealthy cruise missiles, and weaponized artificial intelligence have so reduced the amount of time that decision makers in the United States would theore...
By Michael Horowitz
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The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm’s ties to ICE under attack by employeesAlex Karp faced a dilemma last year, when employees of the data-mining company Palantir confronted the chief executive with their concerns over a partnership with Immigration ...
By Kara Frederick
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Huawei wins 90-day reprieve on US supply ban, but affiliate blacklist expandsThe US government on Monday gave China’s Huawei Technologies a 90-day extension to the reprieve that lets the company continue to do business with American counterparts, a mov...
By Martijn Rasser
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Trump Administration Delays Ban on Huawei Working With U.S. FirmsThe Trump administration agreed Monday to allow some U.S. companies another 90 days to continue doing business with Huawei Technologies Co., a move it said would help small ru...
By Martijn Rasser
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What’s the best way for the Pentagon to invest in artificial intelligence?The Department of Defense is poised to spend nearly $1 billion on artificial intelligence in the next year. The Pentagon’s proposed budget for fiscal 2020 includes some $927 m...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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The question of ‘patriotism’ in U.S.-China tech collaborationIn July, billionaire investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel called for an FBI and CIA investigation of Google, saying the company was “treasonous” for allegedly working with th...
By Kara Frederick & Elsa B. Kania
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NTIA Spectrum Review Request Signals ‘Substantial’ Delay in Part of 5G StrategyA key part of the plan for the United States to compete in the global race to 5G has been delayed, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s request...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Algorithmic Warfare: Academia Key to Maintaining U.S. Lead in AIAcademic institutions will be critical to sustaining the United States’ overmatch in artificial intelligence technology, experts say. While countries around the world are inve...
By Kara Frederick & Elsa B. Kania
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Two Ways to Ward off Killer SpacecraftIf you worry that the recent near-collision between U.S. and Russian warships or Iran’s downing of an American drone could escalate into war, you should be even more worried a...
By Michael Horowitz
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urges participation in anti-crime effortD.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday urged residents, businesses and organizations to the participate in the city’s Private Security Camera System Incentive Program in an effort...
By Kara Frederick
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FaceApp: Age Your Photos — And Compromise Your Privacy?Have you used FaceApp? The hugely popular app that let’s you age your face? Made by Russian developers, members of Congress say the app could be a national security threat. Ca...
By Carrie Cordero
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Special Forces face down impacts of war on terrorThe Pentagon’s Special Operations Command — known as SOCOM — is looking into how brain trauma from the 17-year war on terror in the Middle East has impacted elite US troops. ...
By Paul Scharre
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‘We are being outspent. We are being outpaced’: Is America ceding the future of AI to China?The last time a rival power tried to out-innovate the U.S. and marshaled a whole-of-government approach to doing it, the Soviet Union startled Americans by deploying the first...
By Elsa B. Kania
