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Federal agencies obligated $4.1 billion across 2,255 AI-related contracts since FY 2019, and 83 percent of those dollars went ...
More than nine months after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, CSIS Americas Program Acting Director and Senior Fellow Christpher ...
The Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia that began on July 13—and are still ongoing—recall nothing so much as the strikes on Saudi energy infrastructure of September 2019. But this time it is worse, ...
The United States hedged it bets on AI leadership driven by frontier models. This bet could be losing ground to a cheaper, ...
North Korea is pursuing a “second byungjin” that advances its nuclear program while also seeking to normalize relations with ...
Project Vault is moving from concept to execution. Glencore and Mercuria are committing $1 billion to source and stockpile ...
Export controls can delay China’s technological progress, but they cannot secure lasting U.S. leadership. This report examines the limits and costs of semiconductor controls and argues for pairing ...
Saudi Arabia faces a new era of uncertainty. The Iran war has exposed the kingdom to the vulnerabilities of regional conflict, prompting Riyadh to rethink its security partnerships, energy strategy, ...
Sultan Meghji argues that the hardest cryptographic deadline facing U.S. banks is being set by SWIFT and foreign supervisors, ...
The proposed U.S.-Saudi civil nuclear agreement has both risks and opportunities for U.S. national security. What would ...
The September 2026 edition of the Human Rights Initiative Director's Note where Andrew Friedman shares his reflections on ...