Artificial intelligence

Unpacking the Trump Administration’s Plan to Win the AI Race (Navin Girishankar, Kirti Gupta, Matt Pearl, Philip Luck, James Andrew Lewis, Leslie Abrahams, Sujai...

On July 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed three executive orders (EOs) on artificial intelligence (AI). These orders came shortly after the release of...

Deepfakes and nuclear weapons: Why AI regulation can’t wait (Muhammad Ali Baig – The Interpreter)

The AI-generated deepfake is becoming a familiar feature of political debates, but also a potential national security threat, as US Secretary of State Marco...

Big Tech in Taiwan. Beyond Semiconductors (Sam Bresnick – CSET)

Several U.S. technology companies have embedded themselves in Taiwan’s economy by building data centers, opening R&D facilities, and contracting with Taiwanese manufacturing partners, even...

The U.S. Cannot Prevent Every AI Biothreat—But It Can Outpace Them (Tal Feldman, Jonathan Feldman – Lawfare)

The next biothreat might start as a line of code. A new class of artificial intelligence (AI) systems—known as protein language models (PLMs)—can design...

Military AI and the void of accountability (DigWatch)

In her blog post ‘Military AI: Operational dangers and the regulatory void,’ Julia Williams warns that AI is reshaping the battlefield, shifting from human-controlled...

EU bets on quantum to regain global influence (DigWatch)

European policymakers are turning to quantum technology as a strategic solution to the continent’s growing economic and security challenges. With the US and China...

Asia’s humanities under pressure from AI surge (DigWatch)

Universities across Asia, notably in China, are slashing liberal arts enrollments to expand STEM and AI programmes. Institutions like Fudan and Tsinghua are reducing...

Assessment of the Global Terrorism Threat Landscape in Mid-2025 (Soufan Center)

Al-Qaeda’s franchise groups, affiliates, and regional branches have ebbed and flowed in strength, but at the moment, both al-Shabaab in Somalia and Jama’a Nusrat...

Export Controls Accelerate China’s Quantum Supply Chain (Elias Huber – RUSI)

The development of quantum technologies is anticipated to bring both foundational capability advances to commercial and dual-use applications, including to computing, sensing, and the...

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