Chinese military procurement documents show the PLA's efforts to use AI to assist in drone piloting, cyberattacks, decision-making, and disinformation campaigns
The PLA's Tech Strategy Is Working — At China's Victory Day parade in September 2025, it was not the marching troops …
Sources: the US has granted an annual license to Samsung and SK Hynix to ship their chip manufacturing equipment to their facilities in China for 2026
The U.S. government has granted an annual licence to Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and SK Hynix (000660.KS) to bring in chip manufacturing equipment …
How China ramped up its AI development from spring 2024 to catch the US, including via relaxed regulations, huge government funding, and a domestic chip focus
America holds a sizable lead, but China is working to tip the scales with a sweeping countrywide push, betting ‘swarms beat the titan’
A look at the challenges facing Europe's chip industry, as the EU will likely fail to increase its 10% global chip manufacturing share to a targeted 20% by 2030
including the United States. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ... @foreignaffairs : “A purely European supply chain for semiconductors—the sector that undergirds the digital economy and defense sector—...
A long-running campaign of cyber attacks between Israel and Iran has continued since the June ceasefire, with Israel appearing to land the most telling blows
Financial Times :
President Trump pauses tariffs on most countries for 90 days, setting a 10% “lowered Reciprocal Tariff”, and sets 125% tariffs on China “effective immediately”
- President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on the full effect of his new tariffs for at least some countries.
By embracing Trump, Big Tech risks losing access to Europe, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms as Chinese companies try to expand to Europe
How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost — Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality.
The Trump administration cut $20M for the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees chip export controls, or ~10% of BIS' budget
A White House move to cut 10% of the funding for the agency responsible for semiconductor export controls risks undermining US efforts …
Sources: China tightens scrutiny of Apple and other US tech firms' exports under its dual-use export controls, slowing production expansion in SE Asia and India
Lauly Li / Nikkei Asia :
How advances in AI and autonomous systems, new tech, and lower costs are shifting global wars towards “precise mass”, or the mass deployment of uncrewed systems
"Militaries are beginning to realize that they don't have to choose between precision and mass; they can have both." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ... Shashank Joshi / @shashj : “One report suggests...
An FBI affidavit and European media leaks show how Russia's Doppelganger disinformation project operated and give insights into the Kremlin's online tactics
The Country's Propagandists Target the West—but Mislead the Kremlin, Too — In early September, the infamous Russian disinformation project known … X: @b_novak , @ridt , @oajonsson , @ridt , @ridt , ...
Effective global AI governance will not stand a chance sans collaboration with tech companies and policymakers agreeing on basic principles for how to govern AI
Before It's Too Late?
CISA Director Jen Easterly and Executive Assistant Director Eric Goldstein say incentives for developing and selling tech should not eclipse customer safety
> - Secure products not just security products - Security built in not bolted on - Raise everyone's baseline by reducing the [total] cost of control @CISAJen https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ... Patric...
Hacking Russian targets was once considered off-limits by some, but after invading Ukraine the country has been hit by an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks
Experts anticipated a Moscow-led cyber-assault; instead, unprecedented attacks by hacktivists and criminals have wreaked havoc in Russia
Russia's cyberattacks on government, military, logistics, and critical infrastructure have been its biggest military success to date in the war in Ukraine
but on balance it is unhelpful and a tad too academic: unnecessarily all-or-nothing, getting ahead of the evidence, lacking attention to detail https://t.co/aTIfEVYAJk
How the rhetoric surrounding techno-globalism has shifted, from countries advocating for a free, open internet to imposing limits to protect national interests
Two key words were missing from the statements that followed the inaugural in-person summit in September of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue … Tweets: @sariarhohavren , @chadbown , @carnage4life , ...
How the rhetoric surrounding techno-globalism has shifted, from countries advocating for a free, open internet to imposing limits to protect national interests
Two key words were missing from the statements that followed the inaugural in-person summit in September of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue … Tweets: @gwbstr , @carnage4life , @raquelinacj , @fore...
How Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon, and others increasingly rival states for geopolitical influence and are reshaping the global order as we know it
After rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, some of the United States' most powerful institutions sprang into action to punish the leaders of the failed insurrection. Tweets: @ianbremmer , @m...
How US sanctions forced Chinese companies to develop key tech themselves, aligning the companies' incentives with China's goal of economic self-sufficiency
In 2016, AlphaGo, a computer program developed by machine learning experts in London, beat the world's top players of the classical Chinese board game Go.
Sources: US intel agencies are investigating JetBrains as possible entry point for SolarWinds hackers; JetBrains isn't aware of any investigation or compromise
Russian hackers may have piggybacked on a tool developed by JetBrains, which is based in the Czech Republic …