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Ryan Lovelace

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Ryan Lovelace was a national security reporter for The Washington Times.

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This photo provided by the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, Pa., shows the screen of a Unitronics device that was hacked in Aliquippa on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. The hacked device was in a pumping booster station owned by the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa. An electronic calling card left by the hackers suggests they picked their target because it uses components made by an Israeli company. (Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa via AP) ** FILE **

Partnerships with tech companies aim to help U.S. secure elections

The U.S. intelligence community is ramping up work with technology companies ahead of the November elections as cybersecurity professionals search for new ways to combat foreign threats to the American electoral system that appeared unthinkable four years ago.

March 20, 2024
Visitors try out the AI chatbot Ernie Bot on the laptop computers at a booth promoting the AI chatbot during the Wave Summit in Beijing on Aug. 16, 2023. Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm Baidu on Thursday made its ChatGPT-equivalent language model available to the public, in a sign of a green light from Beijing which has in recent months taken steps to regulate the industry. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ** FILE **

Chinese government escalates its own push to police generative AI

China's communist regime, mirroring a debate in the U.S., is taking steps to regulate the exploding field of generative artificial intelligence and has announced plans to enforce rules to label and restrict information created by powerful new technological tools.

March 15, 2024
Then-U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh testifies during the Senate Intelligence hearing on his nomination to be the Director of the National Security Agency, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) ** FILE **

America’s spies say new tools, tradecraft needed to thwart AI risks

The U.S. intelligence community says it needs new tradecraft and training to prepare analysts and operatives to combat the dangers of generative artificial intelligence, including the production of false information that some warn could trigger bad decisions or a global disaster.

March 15, 2024
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, on child safety. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, left, listens.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

House committee advances crackdown on TikTok while fans complain

The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced a bill on Thursday to crack down on TikTok's owner ByteDance, while the wildly popular China-founded video-sharing app attempted to mobilize its users to pressure Congress to drop the proposal.

March 7, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a press conference at the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello) ** FILE **

Blinken meets with Qatar’s prime minister to discuss Hamas-Israel war

With high-stakes talks over a potential cease-fire in Gaza at an impasse, Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a summit in Washington on Tuesday with Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, a key player in the regional tensions spiraling around the Israel-Hamas war.

March 6, 2024