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  • Rebecca L. Grant, Ph.D.
  • If Iran Goes Nuclear, B-2 Bomber Will Get The Call (From FOX News)
  • The full text of this article is available below and on the FOX News website here. Iran is “not seeking nuclear weapons,” President Masoud Pezeshkian claimed on February 6. Ha! No one believed him, because the UN says Iran is within weeks of producing enough enriched uranium for a handful of bombs. By the way, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was [ Read More…]

  • Paul Steidler
  • DOGE 101: The One Agency Act
  • By Paul Steidler: With the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) getting a bevy of provocative, dramatic headlines, it is easy to forget that there are plenty of important ways the government can operate more efficiently and save money that frankly does not sound as exciting. Still, the work to advance these measures in the legislative trenches is important and worthy [ Read More…]

  • U.S. Is The Global AI Leader: J.D. Vance Must Tell EU To Not Mess With Us (From RealClearMarkets)
  • On Tuesday, February 11, a young American born into poverty who transcended his circumstances through grit and, in part, the opportunities in America’s tech sector will speak to world leaders about AI at a major event in Paris. JD Vance should seize the moment to let the world know America is poised to lead on AI, to work with other countries to bring about the vast promises of AI, and that the U.S. government will not sit idly by when [ Read More…]

  • US Needs To Double Down On AI Supremacy (From Townhall)
  • If the United States is going to have the golden age that President Trump has promised, it must win the gold medal in the race with China for AI supremacy. The consequences far surpass the 1960s race to the moon, as AI will be the driving force for economic and military leadership in the decades ahead. With the unveiling of its low-cost, highly effective DeepSeek app, China landed a body blow against the United States in this competition, creating shock [ Read More…]

  • Lina Khan’s Obsessive, Out-the-Door Tech Bashing Op-Ed
  • By Paul Steidler: Yesterday, the New York Times published an illogical Op-Ed from former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan, blaming U.S. technology leaders for creating the conditions that led a Chinese start-up to invent the DeepSeek app. In a recycling of many past, unproven arguments over the years, Khan contradicts herself by saying Big Tech is harming AI competition while simultaneously being overrun by a small, low-budget Chinese company. Deliberately omitted from the article is any mention of [ Read More…]

  • China’s DeepSeek AI Coup: Three Takeaways for U.S. Policymakers
  • By Paul Steidler: On Monday, January 27, as the Nasdaq Composite was getting routed on news that a small Chinese startup had launched a similar app to ChatGPT at a fraction of the cost, President Trump added a dose of much-needed reality to how policymakers and businesses should see AI. Trump said DeepSeek’s achievement is a “positive” and that it should be “a wakeup call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win.” Renowned AI [ Read More…]

  • Iron Dome: What is to be Done? (From CBS Radio “Eye on the World” with John Batchelor)
  • On January 27, a Trump White House Executive Order directed the building of the Iron Dome missile defense shield for America. Israel’s Iron Dome is a shorter-range system, so the question is how to defend American territory. And none of it can be done without protecting the military radar spectrum, like S-band, needed to detect incoming missiles and warheads. Host of CBS Radio’s “Eye on the World” John Batchelor, Gordon Chang and I discussed the concept. Highlights below, or listen here. “We’re [ Read More…]

  • China’s Two New Stealth Fighters Should Send Shockwaves Through Pentagon (From FOX News)
  • The full text of this article is available below and on the FOX News website here. Wake up, America. China just flew not one but two new stealth fighter planes. All while America’s next fighter is on hold. “They could beat us to the punch,” admitted outgoing Air Force procurement official Andrew Hunter. “It is my sincere hope this got America’s attention,” Air Force Chief of Staff General David Allvin told Breaking Defense on Jan. 17. China released videos of the [ Read More…]

  • Trump is Serious about Change in the Ukraine War (From the FOX News Rundown)
  • Oil prices, Ukraine in NATO, the decimation of the Russian military and what about a meeting between President Donald J. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin?  FOX News Radio White House Correspondent Jared Halpern and I talked it all over on the FOX News Rundown,  Full clip here, beginning at 12:08 and catch these edited highlights below. First Halpern played some of Trump’s recent remarks:  “President Zelensky would like to have peace, he’s told me that very strongly,” Trump said [ Read More…]

  • Trump Cleans Up AI Policy to Beat China
  • By Rebecca Grant: AI is at the top of President Donald J. Trump’s priorities for his second term, and he’s starting by cleaning house. Fulfilling a campaign pledge, on January 20, the White House revoked the October 30, 2023, Executive Order on AI signed by President Joe Biden. The next steps are to develop an AI Action Plan led by Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Michael Kratsios, AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks, and National Security Adviser [ Read More…]

  • Artificial Intelligence: A Powerful Tool Against Cyberattacks
  • The full text is below and can be viewed as a PDF here. Artificial Intelligence: A Powerful Tool Against Cyberattacks The growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led some to worry that it will lead to human extinction or similar global catastrophe. But if the world is truly to avoid catastrophe and become a better place, AI must play a central role in that transformation, be it through finding more rapid cures for diseases, optimizing energy production and consumption, better [ Read More…]

  • Stargate: “Put that name down in your books,” says Pres. Trump
  • By Rebecca Grant: At the White House Jan. 21, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison joined President Donald Trump to announce the formation of Stargate.  Stargate is “a new American company that will invest $500 billion at least in AI Infrastructure in the United States and create over 100,000 American jobs almost immediately,” Trump said. “Beginning immediately, Stargate will be building the physical and virtual infrastructure to power the next generation of advancements [ Read More…]

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