The last few months have been littered with incidents of AI systems acting in harmful ways against human intent. Speed is also coming at the cost of security, leaving companies’ valuable intellectual ...

Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.

The war against Iran is putting new strains on U.S. military readiness by consuming munitions and missile defense interceptors, as well as through extended deployments, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping will meet this week for the latest high-stakes summit. A core focus will be extending a trade truce set to ...

This report examines the potential utility of lower-cost long-range one-way attack drones or cheap cruise missiles for standoff strikes in a war ...

The age of AI is upon us. What that means is not yet clear.

Coming out of the previous summit, the United States and China announced an intention to pursue “strategic stability,” which provided a welcome respite from the U.S.-China trade wars. But it is ...

Ahead of the May summit, there were high hopes for Boeing and soybean sales, agreements on AI and trade, and speculation about large Chinese investments in the United States. Apart from soybean sales, ...

On Bloomberg This Weekend, Bloomberg Economics Statecraft Lead [and] Chris Kennedy discusses how JPMorgan says it no longer has a baseline view for oil markets as the Iran conflict, attacks on Russian ...

This article was originally published in The Washington Post.

The path forward is to lengthen the United States’ AI lead by expanding, not weakening, technology protections, starting with closing three priority ...

Applications for 2025 are now closed. Check the main Pathfinder page for details on future contests. Amid growing competition with China, war between Russia and Ukraine, ongoing conflict in the Middle ...