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Job ads show Deep Seek aims for an AI agent with cybersecurity capabilities
8+ hour, 20+ min ago (259+ words) New job postings from Deep Seek show the Chinese AI lab plans to build an agentic model that can find vulnerabilities in code. These details, buried in a hiring round, show Deep Seek's new strategy following the attention garnered by…...
China's military AI logistics: peacetime gains, wartime vulnerabilities
10+ hour, 33+ min ago (160+ words) For decades, Chinese military planners have viewed logistics as the decisive factor in any campaign against Taiwan and across the broader Indo-Pacific. Sustaining large-scale operations across the strait would require moving and supplying forces under intense pressure, making logistics both…...
Measuring preparedness, resilience and redundancy in a time of strategic pressure
18+ hour, 22+ min ago (288+ words) Australia's defence debate increasingly discusses what we should build in northern Australia. The more important question is whether what already exists can survive disruption long enough to matter. That gap sits at the centre of ASPI's new report, Primed for…...
Not at the frontier, but at least Australian: we need our own AI | The Strategist
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (180+ words) On 12 June, every Australian quietly lost access to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, the most capable AI model on earth. No warning. No negotiation. The model simply went dark. And the cut didn't come from Beijing or Moscow. It came from Washington,…...
The Australia'France Roadmap upgrade is necessary in a downgraded global environment
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (248+ words) The announcement of an upgrade of the Australia-France Roadmap confirms that both countries are moving forward shoulder-to-shoulder in the global scrum. As Canberra and Paris strengthen their partnership and move past mutual misunderstandings, and as Australian and French interests increasingly…...
If China recovers Russian Far East coast, it will suddenly outflank island chain
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (471+ words) The West's strategy to contain China behind island chains risks being bypassed " China could gain free access to the Pacific by recovering territory lost to Russia in the 19th century. This may not be imminent, but it's increasingly plausible as Russia…...
Mapping the ocean: Australia's leverage in undersea warfare
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (597+ words) In early 2025, a Chinese naval task group conducted a full circumnavigation of Australia. Ships were tracked, movements observed and conclusions quickly drawn. Much of the commentary treated it as a show of force " an assertion of reach in the Indo-Pacific....
Bookshelf: Asia's uncertain future
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (493+ words) After several decades of unprecedented development, Asia today stands at a hinge point, writes Nick Bisley in his new book, Asian Crucible: Globalization, Geopolitics and the Contest for the Future. Bisley presents three futures that could come from that contest:…...
In a Taiwan war, forces would need Darwin for medical support. We're not preparing it
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (167+ words) The strategic case for Darwin's role in Indo-Pacific medical preparedness has largely been made. What remains unresolved is the issue of implementation, which is now a pressing challenge. Three implementation deficits stand out. Darwin's value within that architecture depends not…...
How Australia should seek African support for a Security Council seat
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (239+ words) Australia's bid for a seat on the 202930 United Nations Security Council should not be run as a diplomatic sprint. The vote is due in June 2028, but the real test is already underway: how can Canberra convince African governments its interest…...