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CIA

A digital composition featuring multiple overlapping smartphone screens displaying the DeepSeek logo, symbolizing the rapid emergence and proliferation of the Chinese AI company's technology.

The Alarming National Security Implications of DeepSeek and China’s A.I. Breakthrough

If their claims hold up, U.S. giants like OpenAI and Nvidia might be in for a rude awakening.
By John R. Schindler
facial recognition

How LSD, Nuclear Weapons Led to the Development of Facial Recognition

Sixty years ago, the first version of facial recognition technology was developed by Woody Bledsoe, with research funded by the CIA.
By Harmon Leon

A Closer Look At Peter Thiel’s Attack on Google’s ‘Treasonous’ Ties to China

Thiel's Palantir co-founder said Google's 'treasonous' act is an open secret in Silicon Valley.
By Sissi Cao
US National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden speaks to European officials via videoconference during a parliamentary hearing on improving the protection of whistleblowers, at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, eastern France, on June 24, 2014. (Photo: FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP/Getty Images)

US Reliance on Too Much SIGINT and Too Little Spycraft Is Dangerous and Expensive

By Ken Silverstein
An installation view of Jonathan Fletcher Moore's Artificial Killing Machine (2015). (Photo: via artist's website, polygonfuture.com)

Chilling Artwork ‘Shoots’ Gallery-Goers From Above in Tandem to US Drone Strikes

By Alanna Martinez

Artist Papers Major Cities With NSA Officials’ Awful Selfies

By Casey Quackenbush
PHOTO: Ken Silverstein/For New York Observer

How America’s Chickenshit Foreign Policy Has Betrayed the Kurds, a Major Enemy of ISIS

By Ken Silverstein
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The U.S. Should Stop Patting Itself on the Back Over the Torture Report

By Lincoln Mitchell
Katherine Heigl as a CIA something-or-other in State of Affairs. (NBC)

The CIA Itself is Unimpressed with Katherine Heigl and ‘State of Affairs’

By Vinnie Mancuso

CIA Joins Twitter, Twitter Responds With Slew of Dad Jokes

By Jordyn Taylor
David Patraeus. (Photo: Getty)

Bill de Blasio Goes to War With David Petraeus

By Colin Campbell
Christine Quinn speaks with Piers Morgan. (Photo: CNN.com)

Christine Quinn Defends Surveillance in Wake of Monitoring Reports

By Jill Colvin
(Getty Images)

Months After Affair, Petraeus Tapped to Teach CUNY

By Jane Gayduk
General Petreaus and his alleged mistress, Paula Broadwell. (Photo: Paulabroadwell.com)

Former David Petraeus Paramour Paula Broadwell Will Not Be Charged With Cyberstalking

By Steve Huff
General Petreaus and his alleged mistress, Paula Broadwell. (Photo: Paulabroadwell.com)

Former David Petraeus Paramour Paula Broadwell Will Not Be Charged With Cyberstalking

By Steve Huff
Spycraft. (tr.robinson/flickr)

American and British Anti-Terror Efforts Possibly Compromised By ‘Massive’ Data Theft

By Steve Huff

American and British Anti-Terror Efforts Possibly Compromised By ‘Massive’ Data Theft

By Steve Huff

If You Work for a Spy Agency, Maybe Don’t Brag About It on LinkedIn

By Jessica Roy
"Genius of America" by Adolphe Yvon.

Obama on Petraeus and Benghazi

By Hunter Walker
David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell. (Photo: PaulaBroadwell.com)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Writers Overwhelmed by Petraeus Scandal

By Hunter Walker
Paula Broadwell and David Petraeus together on a plane. (PaulaBroadwell.com)

Gmail Data Trails Unraveled CIA Director Petraeus’s Affair

By Steve Huff
Paula Broadwell and David Petraeus together on a plane. (PaulaBroadwell.com)

Gmail Data Trails Unraveled CIA Director Petraeus’s Affair

By Steve Huff
Paula Broadwell and David Petraeus together on a plane. (Photo: PaulaBroadwell.com)

David Petraeus Allegedly Had an Affair With His Biographer, Paula Broadwell

By Steve Huff and Hunter Walker
David Petraeus (Central Intelligence Agency)

CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Extramarital Affair

By Steve Huff
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