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Your AI Isn’t My AI: The Quiet Splintering Ahead

One of the most consequential geopolitical and technological races underway is the competition to shape the future of large language models. For a moment, it looked like a race to build one dominant [...] More

The New Extremist Recruitment Funnel Starts With Children

OPINION -- Technology has a way of helping us skip steps.China skipped mass adoption of credit cards and went straight to mobile payments. Nigeria bypassed landlines and went directly to mobile [...] More

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How Extremist Groups Are Sharing a Global Media Strategy

In the private sector, we analyze competitors to understand where they excel, so we can improve our approach. With this same mindset, I reviewed how [...] More

Iran Is Building the Disinformation Architecture of the Future

Iran is the right place to start. Not because it is the most sophisticated adversary in disinformation—but because it is the most instructive. It has [...] More

The Cognitive Battlefield is Now Decisive Terrain

Senior policymakers, military leaders, technologists and narrative strategists had one thing on their minds as they gathered in a Reston conference [...] More