Technology, Security & Governance

The content of this article does not represent the views, policies, opinions, positions, or official statements of the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense, the federal government, or any military or government organization. WASHINGTON, Two fundamentally different bets on the future of artificial intelligence infrastructure are now in direct competition, and the chief executives behind them are making that competition public. On one side: OpenAI's Stargate project, $500 billi

The content of this article does not represent the views, policies, opinions, positions, or official statements of the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense, the federal government, or any military or government organization. WASHINGTON, On Feb. 2, 2026, SpaceX completed its merger with xAI in what financial analysts described as the largest private merger in history, creating a combined entity, SpaceXAI, valued at $1.25 trillion. The headlines focused on the valuation. The mo

The content of this article does not represent the views, policies, opinions, positions, or official statements of the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense, the federal government, or any military or government organization. WASHINGTON, When SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission on Jan. 30, 2026, proposing up to one million solar-powered satellites to serve as orbital data centers, it raised a question the nuclear energy industry has been relu

Introduction In February 2026, diplomats, defense officials, and technology leaders gathered in A Coruña, Spain, for the third international summit on Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain — a process known as REAIM. These summits have been, since their inception in 2023, one of the few serious multilateral efforts to establish guardrails on how governments use artificial intelligence in warfare. The outcome was sobering. Only 35 nations signed the summit

Introduction There's a concept in cybersecurity circles called "harvest now, decrypt later." The idea is straightforward and unsettling: adversaries — nation-states, sophisticated criminal organizations, anyone with sufficient resources and patience — are collecting encrypted communications and data today, storing them, and waiting. Waiting for the day when a quantum computer powerful enough to break current encryption finally exists. That day doesn't have a fixed date on the

This is an editorialized blog, drafted with the assistance of AI. When Disney employee Matthew Van Andel downloaded an AI tool, he had no...