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U.S. military modernization depends on materials that rarely appear in strategy debates but quietly determine what can be built, fielded, and sustained...
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As large language models power everything from medical diagnosis to financial trading, and as multimodal systems begin generating convincing audio and video content, the question of how to evaluate AI has become inseparable from questions of safety, governance, and societal impact.
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In February 1995, as the World Wide Web was just beginning its transformation of human society, Newsweek published what would become one of the most spectacularly wrong predictions in technology history.
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The U.S. debt has quietly soared past $36 trillion. What caused it, what could it break - and can it be fixed before it bursts?
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Sovereign Citizens reject U.S. laws and government authority, using pseudolegal tactics that often lead to disruption and sometimes violence.
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The post-Cold War nonproliferation order is unraveling, replaced by an era of strategic entropy—a condition where deterrence dynamics are no longer predictable, alliances are no longer immutable, and nuclear restraint is no longer assured.
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Remember the last time you applied for a loan, scrolled through social media, or asked your smart speaker about the weather? You were interacting with AI systems that make countless decisions affecting your daily life.
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Malicious actors, including terrorist organizations, may exploit fire as a low-cost, high-impact weapon designed to destabilize regions, overwhelm emergency resources, and disrupt economies.
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DeepSeek R1, built in 2 months for under $6M, triggered a $500B market cap loss for NVIDIA—ushering in an era where efficiency, not raw power, reshapes the AI race.
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South America is having its mineral deposits developed rapidly… It may well be that in the future the continent will be called upon to furnish in quantity other mineral products required by the industrial nations of the globe - Benjamin LeRoy Miller (1927)
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Amazon learned this lesson the hard way in 2018 when they had to scrap an AI recruiting tool that systematically discriminated against women. The system downgraded resumes that included words like 'women's' and penalized graduates from all-women's colleges...
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