News Roundup for November 8, 2019
…Defense One – Live! Defense One Outlook 2020; Doomsday plane drops a mission; Measuring defense civilians’ readiness; Google wants more defense work; And a bit more. [by Ben Watson and Bradley…
Repairing the Diplomatic Threat Reduction Enterprise
…to ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention. If you google ACDA now, the first entry that pops up is the American Choral Directors Association. The arms control brand, which made a…
Five Myths about Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
…aerial vehicles to combat poaching. In 2012, Google gave the World Wildlife Fund a $5 million grant to use drones and other technologies in Asia and Africa. The novelty of drones draws…
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…