NEW: Fault Lines Episode 603: Trump’s AI Exec Order: The Next Phase of the AI Arms Race? - @johnclipsey + @andykeiser + @andrewborene + @wmatthayden break down the new AI Executive Order, which dropped yesterday after weeks of interagency debate and a last-minute halt before its original signing ceremony.
📺 Watch: https://t.co/YbXdNYdNTD
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/eBoADtDqgV
@MasonNatSec + @georgemasonlaw + @GeorgeMasonU
Tomorrow, June 4, NSI Chief Operating Officer Tara McFeely will be joining @TheBushCenter and @ISRSngo for a webinar to discuss the use of Synthetic Asymmetry in CRINK (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) states. Tara will be joined by NSI Visiting Fellow Igor Khrestin, @BAMcCown, and @davevenable.
To learn more and register for this upcoming event, click here: https://t.co/yMDcBLUbVY
“If this confrontation escalates into a wider regional conflict, no one in Washington, Tehran, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Islamabad, Beijing, New Delhi, Tokyo, Seoul, or Brussels should later say, “If only we had known.” The warning signs are already in plain sight.”
Check out our new SCIF article, “The Hormuz Paradox: 'If Only We Had Known' Is Not a Strategy” authored by NSI Advisory Board member and The SCIF Standing Author Sada Cumber.
Read here: https://t.co/BZ2dw3Oaae
NEW: Fault Lines Episode 602: Reframing Asian Alliances: Hegseth at Shangri-La - @johnclipsey + @andykeiser + @amykmitchell + @algenesajery break down Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's address at the Shangri-La Dialogue, where he outlined the administration's strategy for the Indo-Pacific.
📺 Watch: https://t.co/J1kQLt2Rf7
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/2Xp1gTBA2A
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“The strategic imperatives facing the Department of War (DoW) demand a fundamental reconsideration of how the United States leverages its most powerful asymmetric advantage: the innovation capacity of the American private sector.”
Check out our new SCIF article, “Homecoming: A Framework for Harnessing Venture Capital for Strategic Advantage” authored by @NSI_CTC Visiting Fellow Sean Singleton.
Read here: https://t.co/NRtvYcOkZU
This Thursday, June 4, NSI Chief Operating Officer Tara Caroselli McFeely will be joining @TheBushCenter and @ISRSngo for a webinar to discuss the use of Synthetic Asymmetry in CRINK (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) states. Tara will be joined by NSI Visiting Fellow Igor Khrestin, @BAMcCown, and @davevenable.
To learn more and register for this upcoming event, click here: https://t.co/1Gp2yhGSQM
NEW: NSI Experts Weigh In: Artificial Intelligence in the Vatican
Link: https://t.co/gGfwIdeB4T
To assess what this encyclical means for national security and AI policy, we asked our experts to weigh in, responding to the questions: What should the national security community make of the Catholic Church positioning itself as a major voice in AI governance? How might adversaries (or allies) leverage or respond to the Vatican’s intervention in AI policy? Considering the current threat landscape around AI-generated disinformation, does a framework centered on human dignity offer a useful guide for thinking about information warfare?
David Bray
Sada Cumber
John Funge
@tkathawalla@AndyKeiser@sultanmeghji@KRRVentures@MasonNatSec + @georgemasonlaw + @GeorgeMasonU
#nationalsecurity #foreignaffairs #foreignpolicy
NEW: Fault Lines Episode 601: Losing the Plot in Iran? - @lestermunson + @algenesajery + @johnclipsey dig into the murky details of a reported Memorandum of Understanding between U.S. and Iran— a document that Iran refutes, hasn't been signed by Trump, and hasn't actually been seen by the public.
📺 Watch: https://t.co/QkR7ahHUCC
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/a81XA497ox
@MasonNatSec + @georgemasonlaw + @GeorgeMasonU
"The instinct behind the budget’s Indo-Pacific investments is right. But connecting the proposed spending to a more coherent strategy — and strengthening the alliance relationships that make a more robust forward presence possible — would produce an approach the region can take more seriously."
NSI Visiting Fellow Igor Khrestin in @just_security: https://t.co/1ZKkIV5muy
NEW: EPISODE 600❗: Full Circle to Tehran - @lestermunson + @algenesajery + @andykeiser + @johnclipsey mark Fault Lines' 600th episode by returning to one of the show's defining subjects — #Iran — as a proposed deal reportedly nears completion even as the two countries exchange fire.
📺 Watch: https://t.co/nu1J5nMH8h
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/lmT2l4gRFj
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NCIF 2026 #inthenews from @MeriTalk:
"Speaking at the National Cyber Innovation Forum in Washington, D.C., Andersen emphasized that stronger public-private partnerships will be essential to securing the nation’s critical infrastructure and responding to the rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape driven in part by artificial intelligence (AI)."
Read the full article here: https://t.co/q7GQwmHwgl
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NCIF 2026 #inthenews from @CyberScoopNews:
“CISA has been working with industry and others 'to modify our approach to vulnerability management, modify our approach to coordinated vulnerability disclosure, modify our approach to remediation, with the explicit understanding that we’re just not going to be able to keep up using traditional mechanisms,' Andersen said, speaking at the National Cyber Innovation Forum in Washington, D.C."
Read the full article here: https://t.co/bPqMYSfsWe
@NatCyberInnoFor | @MasonNatSec | @NSI_CTC | #NCIF2026