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January 14, 2026 | Matt Pottinger |

Winning the AI Arms Race Against the Chinese Communist Party

January 2, 2026 | Max Lesser, Maria Riofrio

How the US Can Fight Foreign Malign Influence

The most effective strategy to combat foreign influence is to ensure the effort remains unpoliticized and non-partisan.

December 18, 2025 | Annie Fixler, Branson Chi

AI Is a Gift to Cyber Scammers and Nation-State Hackers This Holiday Season

This holiday season, the Grinch is using a computer to steal Christmas. The Department of Treasury’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP) released its annual consumer...

October 3, 2025 | Nathan Picarsic, Emily de La Bruyère

China Could Win AI Fight

In August, Chinese researchers debuted the world’s largest brain-inspired supercomputer. The Darwin Monkey is just the latest in a string of People’s Republic of China (PRC) artificial intelligence...

September 11, 2025 | Max Lesser, Maria Riofrio

FDD Uncovers Likely Chinese Intelligence Operation That Began More Than 3 Years Ago

September 8, 2025 | Craig Singleton, Jack Burnham, Miles Kershner

Why Export Controls Work: 5 Debunked Myths About U.S.-China AI Competition

America’s artificial intelligence (AI) edge faces a determined challenger: Chinese leader Xi Jinping...

August 6, 2025 | Jack Burnham, Craig Singleton, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Section 232 National Security Investigation of Imports of Polysilicon and Its Derivatives

July 23, 2025 | Emily de La Bruyère |

Innovation in the Crosshairs

Countering China’s Industrial Espionage

July 11, 2025 | Max Lesser, Maria Riofrio

FDD Unmasks Iranian Man Behind Crowdfunding Bounty for Trump’s Assassination

There’s a crowdfunding effort to encourage the assassination of President Donald Trump, and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has unmasked an Iranian national who helped create it. Thaar[.]ir,...

June 20, 2025 | Max Lesser, Maria Riofrio

FDD Uncovers Large Iranian Network Impersonating Israelis on Social Media

An Iranian social media operation is instructing its audience how to use AI and create fake accounts on X where they pose as Israelis and post demoralizing messages in Hebrew...

June 12, 2025 | Max Lesser |

New Report Shows How China Uses AI to Augment its Online Intelligence Operations

By Max Lesser Artificial intelligence (AI) empowers China to conduct operations that blur the line between collecting sensitive information and influencing public opinion, and a June 10 report by...

June 5, 2025 | Ivana Stradner, Emily Hester

Russia aims to ride the BRICS to AI victory

The United States must firm up its own coalition of AI collaborators.

May 15, 2025 | Craig Singleton, Jack Burnham, Leah Siskind, Johanna Yang

Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion

May 7, 2025 | Jack Burnham, Annie Fixler

Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure on DOE Lands

April 14, 2025 | Harry Krejsa, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

AI Power Demand Is Remaking Our Energy Ecosystem – While Painting a Target on Its Back

Even in its most conservative projections, AI-driven booms in electricity use are poised to provide a once-in-a-generation opportunity – and imperative – to secure our grid against PRC cyber attacks OpenAI...

April 10, 2025 | Johanna Yang, Jack Burnham

To Beat China, America Must Balance AI Innovation with National Security

While the White House is busy restricting trade with China, it keeps unlocking the back gate. Even as the Department of Commerce expanded export restrictions on March 26 to prevent...

February 25, 2025 | Nathan Picarsic, Emily de La Bruyère

What DeepSeek taught us about the gaps in US tech strategy

The emergence of DeepSeek underlines a lesson to American tech companies and regulators: China has a far greater edge over the US in encouraging efficiency innovation and scalability. To maintain its competitive advantage, Washington must re-evaluate its current approach to one that goes beyond tech denial to include cost-cutting innovation at home and making friends globally.

February 20, 2025 | Annie Fixler, Ania Uzieblo

Russia’s AI-Powered Cyberattacks Threaten to Outpace Western Defenses

Russia is increasingly leveraging artificial intelligence to refine its cyber espionage and enhance attack precision, warned Western officials at the Munich Security Conference this past weekend.

February 5, 2025 | Max Lesser, Mariam Davlashelidze

America’s Adversaries Use AI for Malign Influence, But Not to Great Effect … Yet

Iran, China, and Russia all used Google’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool Gemini to accelerate their influence operations (IO), Google warned in a new report published on January 29. At...

December 2, 2024 | Jack Burnham, Thomas Carroll

How to Beat China in the Quest for AI Dominance

The next administration must recognize that getting ahead in the AI race will both protect U.S. national security and stem the global spread of authoritarianism.