Cybersecurity

Hadi Elis The United States entered its war with Iran possessing something few militaries in history have had at comparable scale: extraordinary technological superiority, an enormous intelligence architecture and increasingly sophisticated artificial-intelligence systems capable of processing information at speeds no human organization could match. Artificial intelligence has become …

By Dan Steinbock Thanks to some AI executives, the Trump administration had an opportunity to foster global AI cooperation. By contrast, it gave green light to existential risks. On September 29, 2026, President Trump convened the chief executives of several of the world’s most powerful technology companies at …

By Dr. Shehab Al Makahleh There was something unusually revealing about King Abdullah II’s address to the United Nations General Assembly this week. At a time when the international system is being overwhelmed by wars, competing crises, strategic rivalries, and an ever-shortening public attention span, the Jordanian monarch …

By Dan Steinbock              The global AI race has entered a new, existential stage. Anthropic CEO’s idea for international cooperation is the step toward right direction. But it is unipolar and thus vulnerable to potential weaponization. What’s urgently needed is multipolar AI cooperation. On September 14, AI-linked stocks …

Iraq has once again found itself caught between Washington and Tehran, but this time the pressure is moving through an increasingly sophisticated instrument of American power: sanctions that do not stop at the borders of the country being targeted. Baghdad’s reported decision to prevent Iranian airlines from landing …

When British Prime Minister Andy Burnham refused to rule out a future Labour commitment to rejoin the European Union, he did not announce a new government policy. But politically, his words were more significant than the formulation might suggest. Asked by The Independent whether he could exclude a …

By Stephan Richter On CNN recently, former U.S. Senator Joe Manchin returned to first principles. He noted that the word “political party” never once appears in the drafts of the Constitution. That reminder comes at an opportune moment. America’s two-party system seems to be eating itself alive. The …

Dr. Shehab Al-Makahleh The most consequential question emerging from the latest confrontation in the United Nations Security Council is no longer whether Iran should face additional sanctions, nor whether another round of international pressure can persuade Tehran to modify its nuclear policies. The more fundamental question is who, …

A three-person cybersecurity research team used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 to exploit vulnerabilities in an OpenAI community forum, take control of employee accounts and demonstrate access to the company’s private code repository. The operation began on July 23 and was carried out by researchers from Hacktron AI, who …