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China is trying to glean the secrets of U.S. artificial-intelligence models by using simpler AI models to query more advanced American ones, national-security and intelligence agencies warned on Tuesday.In a joint advisory, the National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation said that Chinese companies DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI used “aggressive, malicious, and targeted distillation” tactics to extract billions of tokens from the exchanges within U.S. frontier AI models since 2024, likely with Chinese government awareness.Distillation is used to reduce the time and money needed to create a new model.“China-based AI companies route distillation requests through…

CIA cyber operatives provided intelligence that helped U.S. forces locate and capture deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro within four minutes of landing on the ground in January this year, agency Deputy Director Michael Ellis said Tuesday.Ellis credited the agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence with building what he called a “flawless intelligence picture” for Operation Absolute Resolve, the U.S. operation that seized Maduro.“If you look at [Absolute Resolve], you know that operation was only made possible by a flawless intelligence picture, and that flawless intelligence picture was built on cyber operations enabled by our CCI team,” Ellis said, speaking at the…

The National Security Agency is leaning into artificial intelligence tools to process the mass volumes of data it collects, allowing analysts to sort through tasks and find anomalies faster, a top official said Tuesday.“I think right now we’re looking at how to use an AI where we could triage so much more,” David Imbordino, the head of the agency’s cybersecurity directorate, said on a panel with officials from the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C.The agency ingests vast amounts of data every day, including intercepted foreign communications and electronic signals from radar and weapons…

Quwa released the twelfth episode of Pulse Check on 09 September 2026, in which Bilal Khan and Murtaza Asim Shehzad work through why Pakistan’s public procurement notices reach so few of the firms that could bid on them. Murtaza is the chief executive of Star Strategic Systems, an Islamabad-based venture building a pipeline that collects, cleans, and classifies Pakistan’s public procurement data, then surfaces the defence-relevant contracts inside it. The working figure is roughly 40 separate channels – federal portals, provincial portals, and military procurement notices – that a Pakistani vendor is currently expected to monitor in order to see…

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Army announced today its new biodefense strategy to build a force that can fight to its full operational potential in a “biologically contested environment,” an official from the US Army’s Nuclear and Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Agency told reporters today (USANCA) said.  Such contested environments can consist of: naturally occurring threats like the COVID-19 pandemic or malaria, accidental threats caused by pathogen leaks from facilities, and deliberate biological threats manufactured by adversaries, Lt. Col. Dave Kingery, the biological defense integrator for the Army’s headquarters and USANCA, told a small group of reporters today during…

In July, Taiwan witnessed a first-of-its-kind intrusion – a sophisticated AI cyberattack against its government and private sector networks. The hack was suspected to have been carried out by Chinese actors. While impactful, this is not surprising and it overinflates perceptions of China’s true cyber threat to Taiwan.  Most people assume that China’s cyber capabilities define the totality of its threat to Taiwan, but this simply does not capture the full picture. Intent and opportunity to use cyber are equally critical. A threat is properly defined as the product of an adversary’s intent, opportunity, and capability. While China’s cyber capabilities…

The U.S. Navy’s reported interest in foreign frigate designs has opened a new front in Japan-South Korea defense industrial competition. USNI News reported on September 1 that the White House and Navy are considering three allied designs: Japan’s upgraded Mogami class, known as the New FFM or 06FFM; South Korea’s Chungnam class; and Turkiye’s Istanbul class. Up to two ships could be built overseas before production shifts to U.S. yards. The idea did not come from nowhere. As Naval News reported in June, the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal included $1.85 billion for an effort involving foreign warship designs,…

KIELCE — For the first time attendees at Poland’s MSPO defense exhibition got a peek at a full-sized demonstrator for the Ciężki Bojowy Wóz Piechoty (CBWP) or Heavy Infantry Fighting Vehicle under development by Huta Stalowa Wola, part of Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ). “The demonstrator presented today confirms that Polish companies possess the expertise to design and develop advanced combat platforms that meet the demands of the modern battlefield,” said Adam Leszkiewicz, president of the Management Board of PGZ. At a previous MSPO only a 1:4 scale model was present. In a press release, PGZ said the vehicle will accommodate…

The loss of dozens of MQ-9 Reapers to Iranian air defenses is speeding up the U.S. Air Force effort to replace its venerable strike-and-sensor remotely piloted aircraft with something cheaper yet better, service leaders say.“As we get to the end of the MQ-9 life, there was some early talk of where do we want to go afterwards, and candidly, as a result of some of the losses that we’ve experienced in combat operations, that discussion sort of got accelerated,” said Lt. Gen. Christopher J. Niemi, the Air Force’s chief modernization officer, at a Thursday roundtable with reporters.The service has lost…