The document argues that China’s “open AI” strategy—centered on open-source/open-weight models—creates reinforcing feedback loops that translate model innovation into industrial dominance. First, it d
Today’s restrictions on do-it-yourself repairs for products like phones, printers, tractors, and even military equipment trace back to copyright and software-control battles that began in the 1980s. T
The passage argues that China’s consulate in Houston was a major center of hostile activity and that its closure on July 23, 2020, was part of a broader U.S. effort to counter Chinese Communist Party
The article argues that enterprise AI is running into a cost crisis as companies shift from flat-rate subscriptions to token-based billing, where customers pay for each prompt or line of code generate
The Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative (IPSI) will host a book launch event on June 12, 2026, featuring Nonresident Senior Fellow Jieun Baek and her latest book, *Privileged but Power
The Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative (IPSI) will host a book launch event on June 12, 2026, featuring Nonresident Senior Fellow Jieun Baek and her latest book, *Privileged but Power
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SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) is an ESA–China mission scheduled for launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 19 May 2026 aboard a Vega-C rocket. Its main goal is
The article explores China’s “white monkey” economy, in which foreigners are hired to make businesses seem more international, credible, or prestigious. These jobs are often unregulated and exist in a
Rethinking the Global AI Race
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
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The article argues that the global AI competition is being misunderstood when described as a “race” to build the most advanced model first. Instead, AI should be seen as a long-term, society-wide effo
The first public image of the U.S. military’s AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM) has emerged, marking a notable step for a long-secret air-to-air weapon in development for years. Photograp
China has completed the world’s first test flight of a megawatt-class hydrogen turboprop engine, the AEP100, developed by the Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC). On April 4, 2026, a 7.5-tonne unm
British paratroopers down drones in Lithuania
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IrregularChat: Counter UxV
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British paratroopers from 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment (3 PARA) have joined the US Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Lithuania for Exercise Flytrap, a training event focused on counter-drone war
Ornadyne is a YC-backed startup building autonomous robot birds, or ornithopters, for military reconnaissance. Its drones are designed to look, fly, and sound like real birds while carrying cameras fo
Ornadyne is a YC-backed startup building autonomous robot birds, or ornithopters, for military reconnaissance. Its drones are designed to look, fly, and sound like real birds while carrying cameras fo
Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, a Los Angeles suburb, resigned after federal prosecutors announced she will plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government. Wang, 58, was char
NVIDIA is reportedly accelerating co-packaged optics (CPO) technology by about five years, bringing it into its roadmap with the upcoming Feynman GPUs in 2028. CPO uses silicon photonics to replace so
TSMC is preparing to install equipment in its Fab 21 phase 2 facility in Arizona as early as the third quarter of 2026, according to a Nikkei report citing sources familiar with the plan. If the sched
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IrregularChat: IWAR
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A New York Times report describes a major crisis inside China’s military leadership under Xi Jinping. At a recent legislative meeting, the absence of many top generals made visible the scale of the pu
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IrregularChat: Modern Warfare
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war with Iran is “not over,” insisting that the U.S. and Israel still aim to stop Tehran’s nuclear program. In a taped CBS “60 Minutes” interview, he
NASA’s X-43A remains a landmark in hypersonic flight. In 2004, the unmanned experimental aircraft reached Mach 9.6, or about 7,346 mph, making it the fastest air-breathing aircraft ever flown. Using a
A group of Swiss researchers published a detailed cryptographic analysis of Threema, the Swiss encrypted messaging app with more than 10 million users and about 7,000 corporate customers. The paper de
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
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IrregularChat: Modern Warfare
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The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a nuclear agreement reached on July 14, 2015, between Iran and the P5+1 countries—China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United S
Beijing has introduced its strictest drone regulations yet, effectively banning the sale, transport, and use of civilian drones throughout the city. The new rules, which took effect on May 1, designat
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that artificial intelligence has created a “moment of danger” in cybersecurity, saying the world has only about six to 12 months to address tens of thousands of softw
Connect, protect, and build everywhere | Cloudflare
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Irregular Event: SOF Week
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Cloudflare positions itself as a unified “connectivity cloud” for making websites, applications, AI agents, and networks faster and more secure. Its platform combines more than 60 cloud services on a
New frontier of AI forces Trump's heavy hand
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
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President Trump entered office promising to remove government constraints on artificial intelligence, but 15 months later his administration is moving toward a much more active role in overseeing the
The article compares the Vietnam War with the 2026 Iran conflict, arguing that both were launched with unrealistic expectations, weak public explanations, and no clear exit strategy. The author, a for
Citizen Lab investigated two coordinated telecom surveillance campaigns discovered in late 2024 and early 2025 that used global mobile signaling networks to track high-value targets. The first campaig
WIRED reports that a dark-money campaign called Build American AI is paying social media influencers to promote pro-U.S. artificial intelligence messaging and increasingly cast China’s AI progress as
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
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The article argues that advanced AI is making online anonymity increasingly fragile. Kelsey Piper describes testing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 on unpublished writing and finding that it could identif
The article argues that cislunar space—the region between Earth and the Moon—is becoming a new arena of strategic competition, but current U.S. space situational awareness and defense planning are not
Former Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work criticized Google’s decision to withdraw from Project Maven, the Pentagon program that used artificial intelligence to analyze military surveillance video. Spe
The article reports concerns raised by U.S. military leaders that Google’s business activities in China may be benefiting the Chinese military, especially the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). In testim
Germany is testing an innovative river-based power plant on the Middle Rhine near Sankt Goar that uses 124 small hydrokinetic turbines called “Energyfish.” Unlike traditional hydropower, the system do
Ethics - Wikipedia
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Ethics, or moral philosophy, is the branch of philosophy that studies morality and asks what people ought to do, what counts as right or wrong, and how to live a good life. It examines moral obligatio
Scientists at King’s College London have discovered an unusual new form of aluminum that could help replace expensive, scarce metals used in catalysts. The compound is a neutral aluminum(I) trimer, ca
The report explains how U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductors have become a central tool in competition with China. Semiconductors are described as strategic technologies that underpin artif
DeepSeek Privacy Policy
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
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DeepSeek’s Privacy Policy, updated Feb. 10, 2026, explains how the company collects, uses, and shares personal data across its apps, websites, software, and related chatbot services. DeepSeek, Ltd., b
The U.S. Army is planning to use extremely long-range air-launched drones to help protect its new ME-11B HADES surveillance aircraft from enemy air defenses. The HADES platform is based on the Bombard
The U.S. Army is planning to use extremely long-range air-launched drones to help protect its new ME-11B HADES surveillance aircraft from enemy air defenses. The HADES platform is based on the Bombard
Cisco has released patches for four critical vulnerabilities affecting its Identity Services Engine (ISE), ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC), and Webex Services. The flaws could enable remote c