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What Happens if America Nationalizes AI?“There’s quite a lot of power that the federal government can wield,” Paul Scharre, an executive at the Center for a New American Security who previously did policy work at th...
By Paul Scharre
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New Security Unit to Tackle ‘Catastrophic’ AI-Enabled Bioweapons“Making a bioweapon was not something that was feasible or accessible by folks without significant know-how and tacit knowledge,” said Janet Egan, deputy director of technolog...
By Janet Egan
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Iran Is Teaching Us Something About the American War Machine“We’re starting to see the contours of a new age of missile and drone warfare,” Paul Scharre of the Center for a New American Security says....
By Paul Scharre
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AI & Tech Brief: The power of Mythos“I think this sort of release model that we’re seeing will be here to stay,” Caleb Withers, a research associate for the Technology and National Security Program at the Center...
By Caleb Withers
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic DisasterJanet Egan, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, described data centers to us as “large, juicy targets.” It is impossible to hide these facilities, which...
By Janet Egan
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The One Man Stopping Trump from Building Killer AIIn a sprawling 20,000-word essay published last month, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, warned that advances in artificial intelligence could pave the way for a...
By Vivek Chilukuri
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Pentagon pressures Anthropic on AI accessUS Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's threat to cut AI group Anthropic from government supply chains, or possibly compel it to prioritize government orders, raises several serio...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Anthropic’s Pentagon Showdown Is About More than AI GuardrailsAs the Pentagon was pressing Anthropic PBC to drop the guardrails on its powerful artificial intelligence tools, a senior US defense official posed a hypothetical scenario to ...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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Trump Attempts a Tightrope Walk on Selling AI Chips to China Without Boosting Its MilitaryCNAS research associate James Sanders told The Dispatch he believes that selling this number of chips would pose a substantial threat to national security, outweighing any eco...
By James Sanders
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Republican Lawmaker Says Don’t Give China Nvidia’s Blackwell ChipA leading Republican voice in Congress on China policy said on Wednesday that selling Nvidia's best AI chip to China "would be akin (to) giving Iran weapons grade uranium", as...
By Tim Fist
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Technology & National Security
New CNAS Report Examines the Threat of Emerging AI Capabilities to CybersecurityWashington, September 23, 2025—A new report from the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) examines how emerging artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities could disrupt th...
By Caleb Withers
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Technology & National Security
U.S. Risks Losing Out to China in Saudi AI Chip MarketExperts warn the U.S. must swiftly finalise a regulatory framework for the export of next-generation semiconductors to Saudi Arabia before China closes the gap and steps in....
By Vivek Chilukuri
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Middle East Money Drives Silicon Valley and Wall Street’s AI AmbitionsThe artificial intelligence sector is notoriously capital intensive. Building out data centers or fabrication plants for semiconductor chips needed to power them can cost bill...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Technology & National Security
The Rise of a Data Center EliteThe bedrock of the artificial intelligence industry looks like acres of sprawling data centers, running millions of servers packed with powerful chips, drawing enough electric...
By Vivek Chilukuri
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
United Arab Emirates Joins U.S. and China in Giving Away A.I. TechnologyIn a move that shows the growing influence of the United Arab Emirates in the global artificial intelligence race, a new research lab backed by the Persian Gulf nation said on...
By Pablo Chavez
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Why Nvidia’s B30A Could Destroy the U.S.’s AI AdvantageEarlier this month, facing backlash for his removal of export controls on Nvidia’s H20 AI chip, President Donald Trump attempted to reassure critics by declaring the H20 “obso...
By Janet Egan
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Technology & National Security
Implementation Uncertainty Clouds U.S. AI Action PlanU.S. President Donald Trump's new AI Action Plan represents a novel approach to artificial intelligence policymaking in the US, even compared to his own first term, which was ...
By Janet Egan
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Researcher: U.S. Seems ‘Hesitant’ to Control Chip Equipment to Avoid Hurting China TalksThe Trump administration appears to be avoiding new China-related controls on sensitive semiconductor manufacturing equipment because it fears those restrictions could impede ...
By Janet Egan
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Trump May Not Replace Biden-Era AI Rule“It certainly seems — at the moment, at least — that the tech side has the upper hand,” said Geoffrey Gertz, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security....
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Technology & National Security
What We're Hearing on the AI Action PlanThe Trump administration's AI action plan is the tech and AI industry's dream, per glowing reactions that rolled in after its release....
By Caleb Withers
