Ryan Lovelace

2 weeks ago | washingtontimes.com | Ryan Lovelace

China’s artificial intelligence advances exemplified by the company DeepSeek have U.S. lawmakers worried about potentially far-reaching implications on the privacy and security of American citizens. The Chinese firm DeepSeek unveiled a powerful model earlier this year that reportedly compared favorably to Western AI rivals at a fraction of the cost, though skeptics cast doubt on some of DeepSeek’s cost claims.

2 weeks ago | washingtontimes.com | Ryan Lovelace

The Pentagon wants to know, once and for all, if a useful quantum computer can actually be built — or if it remains in the realm of science fiction. The U.S. government is interested in the theoretical machines because a cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer promises to break the encryption that secures everything from state secrets to financial transactions.

2 weeks ago | washingtontimes.com | Ryan Lovelace

Google is making plans to counter the threat of irreparable harm inflicted by advanced artificial intelligence systems that surpass humans’ capabilities. A research team at Google DeepMind, the Big Tech company’s AI lab, said this week they are fixated on the problem of AI becoming self-aware and choosing to ignore human intervention.

3 weeks ago | washingtontimes.com | Ryan Lovelace

The U.S. government’s decision to mandate backdoors inside telecommunications networks created the path for China to hack Americans’ phones, according to cryptographer Matt Blaze. Mr. Blaze, a computer scientist at Georgetown University, told lawmakers on Wednesday that the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) enacted in 1994 made possible the Salt Typhoon hack of the telecom sector last year.

3 weeks ago | washingtontimes.com | Ryan Lovelace

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam is warning that the collection of data centers is making Northern Virginia a larger target for America’s enemies than the concentration of the federal government in Washington. The Northern Virginia Democrat said his district, which includes all of Loudoun and Rappahannock counties, is home to more data centers than any other district and almost any country in the world.