The U.S. military spent thirty years weaving GPS into everything it does. Navigation, precision weapons, supply chains — all of it ran through the same satellite signal. The older skills, map and compass, dead reckoning, navigating by the stars, were allowed to atrophy. When Russia began jamming GPS across the front lines in Ukraine, western precision b…
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Why U.S. Spies Are Using Banned A.I.
The Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic, but its own spy agency is using it anyway. The story of this kind of technological dependence goes back decades...and it ends badly.
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We're in the invisible grip of technology, politics, and our own weirdness. We gotta get better at seeing it.
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We're in the invisible grip of technology, politics, and our own weirdness. We gotta get better at seeing it.
Hosted by veteran journalist Jacob Ward (correspondent for Al Jazeera, PBS, NBC News, and CNN), The Rip Current is your guide to spotting the hidden forces at work in our lives and getting across them safely.
Each week we speak to experts in the stuff you didn't know was having an impact on your life, from venture capital to racism to the tried-and-true tactics of bullies, and teach you how to see The Rip Current before it sweeps you out to sea.
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