National Security Archive

MegaMullet: The DeepSeek Moment – The Start of an AI Cold War

TLDRUpFront: The Cold War started when the Soviets detonated their first atomic bomb demonstrating nuclear parity with the US. Likewise an AI Cold War started at the DeepSeek moment, with the release by a Chinese firm of an at-parity reasoning AI frontier model. A red queen race now begins between the future expectations of strategic

InfoMullet: State of Confusion

TLDR Upfront: By Friday evening three Federal Judges in three separate hearings issued three different sets of rulings on President Trump’s Executive Order seeking to ban all travel from seven countries for national security reasons. Earlier in the evening the emergency stay prohibiting the ban on visa travel from being implemented was removed, allowing the