How to Win a Space War - by Christian Keil and Alex Oliver

kept by eddie jun 24

The US must treat space as a warfighting domain, adopting first-principles strategies and commercial innovation to counter adversaries like China and Russia.

The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race - The New York Times
The U.S., China, Russia and other nations are escalating their competition over AI-powered weapons, drawing comparisons to the dawn of the nuclear age.
also on Russia, #china, #us-government, #security
AI’s Oppenheimer Moment
The author argues that if advanced AI is a strategic technology comparable to nuclear weapons, its military use must be controlled by national governments, not private corporations like Anthropic.
also on Andreessen Horowitz, #us-government
A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote
A hacker breached Doublespeed, an a16z-backed startup, revealing it operates a phone farm of AI-generated accounts to covertly promote products on TikTok without disclosure.
also on Andreessen Horowitz, #security
The economics of SpaceX
SpaceX's $2 trillion valuation is a speculative bubble driven by hype, not Starlink's connectivity economics or competitive prospects.
also on Starlink, #space, SpaceX
The SpaceX IPO and Data Centers in Space – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
SpaceX's $2T IPO lacks financial justification, but data centers in space for agentic AI inference could make the valuation plausible.
also on Starlink, #space, SpaceX