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  • China’s Mythos Moment: Why the AI Arms Race Favors Cyber Offense

    Anthropic’s Mythos, arriving earlier this year, prompted policymakers to view artificial intelligence (AI) as a strategic national security capability rather than just a commercial tool.

  • Designing and Orchestrating an Agentic AI Operating System: Emergent Behaviors and Enterprise Value Creation

    In this post, the OODA Network and OODA Loop Research share a rigorous and actionable baseline primer for designing and orchestrating an agentic AI operating system, specifically addressing agentic orchestration, risk mitigation, and value creation.

  • What Happens When Chinese AI Is Better and Cheaper?

    Many American business leaders have concluded that they are spending too much on Anthropic and OpenAI and have switched to open-weight models. Others are watching closely and will likely do so in the near term.

  • A Spy’s Guide to Running AI

    Three Former Intelligence Officers – John O’Neil, Jim Lawler, and Mike Mears – on What Intelligence Tradecraft Teaches Us About Generative AI

  • Munich’s Defense, Aerospace & Deep-Tech Ecosystem

    This overview of the Munich area defense, aerospace, and deep tech community by OODA network expert Florian Wolf provides an insightful introduction useful to understanding the incredible tech ecosystem in this region.

  • The AI National Security Memorandum Strengthens U.S. Competitive Edge in the AI Race

    The AI National Security Memorandum Strengthens U.S. Competitive Edge in the AI Race Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly evolved from a commercial technology marvel into a strategic national security asset. As nations recognize AI’s potential to influence military operations, intelligence collection, economic competitiveness, and geopolitical power, governments will establish frameworks to accelerate innovation and secure…

  • The May 2026 OODA Network Meeting: The Enterprise AI Inflection Point and the Collapse of Legacy Operating Assumptions

    The May 2026 OODA Network meeting captured a growing realization spreading across enterprise IT (and, as a result, diffused across industry sectors): Artificial intelligence is already restructuring enterprise IT operational assumptions and compressing enterprise timelines.

  • Frontier AI Lab Dynamics: A Business Assessment of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and Meta AI

    The four dominant Western frontier AI labs – OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind (Gemini), and Meta AI – are simultaneously the most heavily funded technology companies in history and among the least profitable. OpenAI is projected to burn $14 billion in 2026. Anthropic is spending $1.25 billion per month just on compute from SpaceX’s data centers.…

  • Biological Smoke Detectors: Why Censoring AI Capabilities Will Miss the Point, And What We Should Build Instead

    The assumption that we can prevent AI from being used for harmful biological research rests on a flawed premise: that we can control access to both the AI models and the underlying biological data.

  • Flagship OODA Network Events in 2026

    We have two signature gatherings coming up this year, and both are worth planning around. Here’s what you need to know.

  • AI in the Materials Sector

    How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Chemicals, Metals, Mining, and the Business of American Materials The American materials sector sits at a pivotal juncture. The industry that furnishes the raw inputs for everything from microchips to skyscrapers is now being reshaped by the same technology it helps enable. Artificial intelligence is moving from isolated pilots to…

  • The Stoic Path to Actual AI Safety: Three Practical Steps for Industry and Individuals

    By David Bray, PhD I am going to be frank: I almost opted to title this article “Dear Silicon Valley AI Companies: Put Your Money Where Your Mouths Are” however I opted not to do this because a good Stoic views the world as opportunities to find good and improve the things that they can…

  • AI in the Energy Sector

    The American energy sector sits at a crossroads. The industry that powers the world’s largest economy is now being reshaped by the technology it helped make possible. Artificial intelligence is moving from pilot projects to production systems across oil and gas exploration, power generation, grid management, and renewable energy operations. The companies that figure out…

  • Why Patching Vulnerabilities Is No Longer Enough: The Case for Patterns-of-Life Cybersecurity

    Why Patching Vulnerabilities Is No Longer Enough: The Case for Patterns-of-Life Cybersecurity By David A. Bray, PhD and Jeff Frazier The cybersecurity challenges posed by AI-empowered adversaries and increasingly sophisticated multi-stage attacks are not going to disappear. And while Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing represent remarkable advances in AI-driven vulnerability discovery, relying solely on…

  • The Financial Sector AI Acceleration Story

    The financial sector’s AI acceleration story is ultimately about more than banking, markets, or digital payments. It is about the emergence of a new operational architecture for global economic coordination.