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An unprecedented leak (~500+ GB) exposes the technical architecture, bureaucratic ecosystem, operational logic, and geopolitical implications of China’s censorship superstructure.
Two roadmaps from The G7 Cyber Expert Group and Europol outline how financial authorities and institutions should move from Quantum awareness to disciplined, risk-based execution.
As adversaries weaponize perception, trust, and decision-making – often below the threshold of armed conflict – the battle for cognitive superiority is becoming decisive.
As autonomous, goal-driven systems move from copilots to decision-makers, Agentic AI is reshaping warfare, intelligence, and influence operations – while simultaneously expanding the attack surface across data, models, agents, and human trust.
For our purposes, the recent stoic, realpolitik “capture” of a baseline reality by the Canadian Prime Minister puts a geopolitical stake in the ground amidst an information ecosystem ripe with misinformation and spectacle.
Today, the U.S. used the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos to escalate economic and diplomatic pressure on Europe over Greenland, testing alliance norms, market stability, and the limits of the post WWII treaty-based order.
It appears that Washington will reposition itself to a more unilateral, capability-driven, and strategically offensive-leaning posture.
At the SVB/Vencapital Boston Venture Finance Summit 2025, panelists and subject matter experts converged on a single conclusion: venture capital has entered a discipline-first phase.
Malaysia has entered the digital asset frontier with the launch of RMJDT, a Ringgit-backed stablecoin tied to the Malaysia Blockchain Infrastructure (MBI) and supported by a substantial crypto treasury.
The Vertex Project recently debuted a hands-on insider threat analysis exercise – the Vertex Insider Threat Challenge – designed to bring realistic investigative scenarios to intelligence analysts and security practitioners.
Uncut Gem – A fully open-source, hackable quantum sensor – signals a shift from closed, lab-bound quantum systems toward modular, inspectable, and community-driven quantum infrastructure.
As the earliest large-scale adopter of AI, healthcare demonstrated the promise and peril of accelerated innovation—revealing where algorithmic tools deliver breakthroughs and where they generate unacceptable risk.
China’s National Internet ID: Increased Control and Strategic Competition In the evolving cyber competition between great powers, technological shifts often lead geopolitical realignment. China’s latest policy initiative called the National Network Identity Authentication system (aka, Internet ID) is not just a data security reform; it represents a strategic readjustment of how a nation state manages…
This year-end collection of analyses provides a structured observe and orient foundation for leaders preparing for 2026 – highlighting where momentum built, where friction emerged, and where decisive action will be required next.
In 2025, the OODA Network Monthly Meetings captured a decisive shift from awareness to action as accelerating advances in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, space, and quantum technologies collided with heightened geopolitical volatility.
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