Adam Segal

Jan 21, 2025 | foreignaffairs.com | James M. Lindsay |Carl Minzner |Kat Duffy |Adam Segal

Over the last few months, U.S. government officials have revealed details about a sophisticated Chinese cyber-operation called “Salt Typhoon.” The campaign, which U.S. investigators believe is connected to China’s Ministry of State Security, has targeted at least nine telecommunications and infrastructure firms in the United States as well as other targets in dozens of other countries.

Dec 10, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Sheila Smith |Bruce Hoffman |Adam Segal |Suzanne Maloney

On October 3, 2023, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei addressed a large crowd of government officials and international visitors in Tehran. As he approached his conclusion, Khamenei’s remarks turned to Israel—the Islamic Republic’s self-proclaimed nemesis. Invoking a verse from the Koran, Khamenei insisted that the Jewish state would “die of [its] rage.” He reminded the audience that the Iranian theocracy’s founder, Ruhollah Khomeini, had described Israel as a cancer.

Nov 27, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Sheila Smith |Bruce Hoffman |Adam Segal |Martín Abregú

Four out of ten people in the world live in a country that spends more money servicing the interest on its sovereign debts than it does on education or health care. Such figures may feel abstract to creditors, which are primarily wealthy countries, multilateral banks​, and large bondholders​, but they could not be more consequential to debt-burdened countries.

Nov 25, 2024 | cfr.org | Sebastian Elbaum |Adam Segal

Sebastian Elbaum is the Technologist-in-Residence at the Council on Foreign Relations. Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at CFR. More From Our Experts By many measures, the United States dominates the AI landscape: it is home to more top AI models and more leading companies and invests more in AI development than China and Europe.

Nov 13, 2024 | mondaq.com | Christopher Humes |Bryce Loveland |William Nobriga |Adam Segal

This chart shows some of the annually adjusted dollar limits that impact employee benefits, as published by the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.