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Trump’s Rejection of Iran Offer Highlights Another Big Problem

Beijing says artificial intelligence will give the state a visible hand to allocate capital. Here’s the rub: Washington’s economic authority sits in [...] More

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Global AI Leadership Requires More than the Best Models

Last month, the White House released its AI Action Plan, followed by an Executive Order aimed at promoting the export of the “American AI technology [...] More

How Culture Will Impact the AI Race

In recent years, senior U.S. Department of Defense leaders have repeatedly emphasized that the U.S. military’s most important asymmetric advantage is [...] More

Security will be a Critical Aspect of New AI Center

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — The recent signing of an agreement between the United Arab Emirates and the United States to create a large scale joint center [...] More

Trump’s Gulf Tour: The Money Deals, the Diplomacy and What Comes Next

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT – President Trump headed home Friday after a whirlwind four-day tour of the Persian Gulf that featured multibillion-dollar [...] More

Silicon Diplomacy: How Tech Can Revive America’s Oldest Asian Alliance  

For decades, Thailand has worked to energize its economy, attract foreign investment, and modernize services for its people. Thailand is a country [...] More

Leveraging AI in ‘No-Fail Mission’ for U.S. Intelligence

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – It’s hard to overstate the complexity and importance of the work of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which — [...] More

To Beat China, America Must Balance AI Innovation with National Security 

While the White House is busy restricting trade with China, it keeps unlocking the back gate. Even as the Department of Commerce expanded export [...] More

China's Tech Sector Shouldn't Grow at Expense of U.S. Companies

DeepSeek's recent surge into the AI space has consumed tech, finance, and political news. Last week, the People's Republic of China (PRC) AI company [...] More

Are We Positioned to Win the Race for AI Supremacy?

In the high-stakes geostrategic race for artificial intelligence supremacy, the United States faces an unexpected adversary: its own government [...] More

AI, the Future of the DoD, and Elon Musk

“I think the thing that’ll be really important is how you make them [new unmanned aircraft], because this is another thing the [Pentagon] acquisition [...] More

The US Risks Losing the Competition for ‘Innovation Power’

'Innovation power' is essential for American economic and national security. In the global competition in a transformational age, the United States [...] More

Pentagon May be Slow to ‘Paradigm Shift’ in AI-Driven Weapons 

“We are long past debating whether software- and AI- (Artificial Intelligence) enabled technologies are essential to America’s ability to deter, and [...] More