This playbook explains how cybersecurity, AI/ML, LLMs, adversarial AI, AI sovereignty, red‑teaming, and agentic AI intersect and what it means for startup teams who are attending Black Hat USA 2025 and DEF CON 33.
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In a recent OODAcast conversation between OODA CEO Matt Devost and Maxie Reynolds, red teamer and founder of a company deploying underwater data centers, Reynolds argues that sub-sea infrastructure—once viewed as novel—is now becoming a ...
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Once again, OODA Network Member Robert Stratton will be participating as a judge in Black Hat 2025 Startup Spotlight.
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As the OODA Network and the Black Hat community enter Day 5 of Black Hat 2025 in Vegas, we tailored this OODA Loop Original Analysis for startup leadership teams and investors attending the conference. ...
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The final topic discussed at the recent July 2025 OODA Network Meeting delved into the global AI race—a domain where opportunity, uncertainty, and strategic risk converge.
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The Autonomy Institute’s new report reveals a sharp rise in AI-related risks disclosed by S&P 500 companies, signaling a pivotal shift in corporate awareness, regulatory exposure, and competitive threat perception. This analysis reveals ...
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The July 2025 OODA Network meeting featured an in-depth discussion of the accelerating convergence of AI, counter-drone defense, cybersecurity, and geopolitical instability, shaped by member insights and real-world operational experience.
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The Center for a New American Security’s report “Swarms over the Strait: Drone Warfare in a Future Fight to Defend Taiwan” argues that drones will play a pivotal but insufficient role in a future U.S.-China ...
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Russia is advancing a hybrid warfare strategy that fuses the weaponization of displacement, strategic dependencies, and paramilitary proxies in Africa to undermine Western influence, extract resources, and create instability. A new RAND report, Russian Mercenary ...
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The AI Futures Project’s “AI 2027” paints a detailed and unsettling forecast for the arrival of artificial superintelligence by the end of the decade. Co-authored by AI forecasters - including ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott ...
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