How the West Shapes Russia’s LLMs Author: Jack Merrett When the non-profit American Sunlight Project (ASP) coined the term “LLMgrooming” in February 2025, they marked a new frontier in political warfare. ASPfound that a “pro-Russia…
Blockchain to Make Our Cities Smarter
The FICCI- PwC report on ‘Blockchain: the next innovation to make our cities smarter’ to be released at the Smart Cities Summit organized by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry The Smart Cities…
Data Has Paralleled Oil in Becoming an Intensely…
BY GREGORY F. TREVERTON & PARI ESFANDIARI First Published in The Hill If oil was the black gold of the 20th century, data has taken over that mantle in the 21st. And just like oil…
Cybersecurity Policy and Planning Technologies for Keeping the…
The Center for Advanced Studies in Terrorism (CAST) is an independent, non-profit policy research organization that aims to improve policy and decision making for the public interest through research and analysis. CAST’s publications do not…
New Tools for Collaboration
The Experience of the U.S. Intelligence Community By Gregory Treverton First published at CSIS in Jan 2016 The Intelligence Community does not lag far behind the private sector in using collaborative tools; indeed, it has…
THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENCE
Gregory F. Treverton - First Published in SMA - Sep 2017 A funny thing happened between my preparing to leave the chair of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) at the end of last year and…
International Relations And Global Security
Looking at international relations and security (IR&S) and foreign policy (FP) issues through the eyes of an innovation studies researcher presents a dialectic challenge. On the one hand, it is always restricted by the natural…
Addressing Hybrid Threats
Gregory F. Treverton Hybrid threats have become the 21st security challenge for Western countries. They reflect significant change in the nature of international security. Change tends to increase feelings of insecurity and, historically, frictions in…
Ensuring the Cybersecurity of the Nation
Federal agencies and other entities need to take urgent actions to implement a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, perform effective oversight, secure federal systems, and protect cyber critical infrastructure, privacy, and sensitive data. Since our previous 2017…