Taiwan Security Brief: 2020
…investments, such as Apple and Google increasing operations in Taiwan. Officials in the U.S. and Taiwan are also set to launch a new annual economic and commercial dialogue to address…
Khamenei’s Eclipse: Absolute Rule Crumbles into Paralysis and Infighting in Iran
…dissidents continue and media bans persist. The Supreme Council of Cyberspace hasn’t met since May 2025, and a partial unblocking of WhatsApp and Google Play in December 2024 were technocratic…
Accelerating Change But Not Necessarily an Inflection Point
…of times it is mentioned in books, according to Google’s Ngram viewer. Certainly, immense changes are underway in many low- and middle-income countries. The International Futures tool, a forecasting model…
North Korea’s “Checkerboard” Threat: Obstacles & Opportunities for the US-ROK Alliance
…in that the DPRK could easily exploit the vulnerability of fixed targets throughout the ROK, which can be easily identified using such publicly available tools as Google Earth. Additionally, the…
Semiconductor Nationalism in the Shadow of Taiwan’s Election
…Google, Nvidia, and Intel. More than half of the company’s institutional stockholders are American, but Taiwan retains the largest stake. Unlike TSMC’s two foundries under construction in Arizona, initially, at…
Harnessing AI to Move from Threat to Threat Reduction
…represent a shared challenge, Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI, along with Amazon, Google, and Meta, launched the Frontier Model Forum (FMF) in July 2023. Established as an industry non-profit, the FMF…
Saudi Arabia and the UAE Compete to be Hubs for Regional Business
…investment and are in a strong position to attract talent and corporate headquarters. But while many foreign multinationals – including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Siemens, and Pepsico — have indeed set…
North Korea’s Integration of AI Across Cyber, Economic, and Military Domains
…operations related to North Korea (DPRK) at Google Mandiant, where he conducted in-depth research on APT43, APT45, and the broader DPRK IT worker threat. His career began in the U.S….