Al-Qaeda marked 9/11's 25th anniversary by resurrecting Osama bin Laden's son Hamza on video, and pointedly withholding the blessing reserved for the dead after his name. The clip, without English subtitles, leans on de facto leader Saif al-Adel's writings to argue the 2001 attacks worked exactly as planned.
— via Small Wars Journal, Sara Harmouch
The White House quietly finalized rules for testing the most powerful AI models for cybersecurity risks, but the criteria are secret and companies choose whether to participate at all. The government gets thirty days to review a submitted model, yet lacks the technical staff to do it without leaning on the same industry it's supposed to police.
— via Atlantic Council, Lauren Kim
Twenty-five years on, the war on terrorism never delivered the clean victory Pearl Harbor did. A CFR podcast conversation unpacks why Bush's response overreached, and what that means for fighting terrorism today.
— via CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)