CIA director nominee John Ratcliffe said Wednesday that American spies must stop foreign adversaries from winning the race for top tech, including through operations aimed at undercutting enemies’ supply chains.

Ratcliffe said that if confirmed, he would push the CIA to do more to harness technologies such as AI and quantum computing while expanding use of human intelligence collection. “We’re not ...

John Ratcliffe, Donald Trump's pick to lead the CIA, told members of the Senate that loyalty to Trump would not conflict with duties to follow intelligence leads.

What To Know During the hearing, Ratcliffe outlined his vision for modernizing the CIA by integrating artificial intelligence and quantum computing while bolstering traditional espionage methods. A key theme was countering China's influence, which he ...

The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving President Donald Trump the second member of his new Cabinet.

Gov. Wes Moore on Monday introduced former U.S. National Cyber Director Harry Coker Jr. as Maryland’s next commerce secretary and said he will lead the administration’s push to grow and invest in life sciences, information technology, and aerospace and defense.

Advances like these lead me to believe that useful quantum computing is inevitable and increasingly imminent. And that’s good news, because the hope is that they will be able to perform calculations that no amount of AI or classical computation could ever achieve.

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and quantum computing present unprecedented challenges to digital authenticity.

The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which claims that R1 matches or even surpasses OpenAI’s ChatGPT o1 on multiple key benchmarks but operates at a fraction of the cost.

Learn about the "two big advances" in quantum research in recent months, as per Gil Herrera, research director at National Security Agency.

Quantum systems are often seen as symbiotic with artificial intelligence, which took a hit as China’s DeepSeek surpassed ChatGPT as the highest-rated free app on Apple’s App Store.