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Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
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Thursday, January 29, 2026
Produced by: Harrison Doyle
AI Models Used: Claude (Anthropic) & GPT (OpenAI)
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Executive Summary
28 Top Articles |
40/46 Active Sources |
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Category Breakdown: 🌍Geopolitics: 5 articles 🕵️Espionage: 5 articles 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy: 3 articles 🔒Cybersecurity: 5 articles 🤖Artificial Intelligence: 5 articles 📰Other: 5 articles Articles ranked by recency, relevance, and source authority | | Some sources unavailable: Krebs on Security, Dark Reading, Graham Cluley, CSO Online, CSIS |
Pentagon Leaders Expect Cybercom 2.0 To Help Thwart Chinese Actors
DScoop A digital tactic known as "living off the land" is a major concern for U.S. officials.
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What the 2026 U.S. NDS Means for the ROK–U.S. Alliance
Jihoon Yu, RCDefense The strategy explicitly ranks missions in a way that signals scarcity: it "concentrat[es]" effort on defending the U.S. homeland and Western Hemisphere, deterring China...
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Rubio Faces Tough Questions From Democrats on Venezuela
Senators attacked the Trump administration’s justification for Maduro’s capture.
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Senators explore off-ramps to prevent a shutdown as Democrats lay out DHS reforms
Senators met privately to discuss off-ramps to prevent a government shutdown this weekend, while recognizing ICE and DHS reforms are needed.
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Catholic Church emerges as a bulwark of resistance
President Trump's immigration crackdown and aggressive foreign policy has put him on a collision course with one of the oldest institutions in the world: The Catholic Church.Why it matters: Faith lead...
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Saudi and Israeli officials visit D.C. to discuss possible U.S. strikes on Iran
The Trump administration is hosting senior defense and intelligence officials from Israel and Saudi Arabia for talks on Iran this week as President Trump considers military strikes, two U.S. officials...
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Trump gets shy about firing his own
President Trump dismissed a bipartisan groundswell calling for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be fired after Alex Pretti was killed — a new example of a top Trump official surviving a high...
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Forget Greenland — Securing Diego Garcia Should Come First
Asia Times U.S. strategic base in Indian Ocean, key for projecting power in Mid East and checking China, is under threat from U.K. weakness
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Tesla Profit Slumps, but Investors May Not Care
The automaker also said it would invest $2 billion in xAI, the artificial intelligence company controlled by its C.E.O., Elon Musk, and stop making the two oldest models in its lineup.
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Scoop: House Democrats told by leadership not to go to Minnesota
House Democrats have been privately advised by their leadership not to travel to Minnesota in support of anti-ICE protesters there, Axios has learned.Why it matters: Several Democratic politicians hav...
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| 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy | 3 |
MQ-20 Avenger First Autonomous Air-to-Air Intercept
Sinha, Interesting Engineering Using an infrared tracking sensor instead of radar, the MQ-20 detected, tracked, and achieved a simulated kill without revealing its position.
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cside VPN Detection enables control of VPN traffic to prevent fraud and legal exposure
cside announced the launch of VPN Detection. The new solution enables businesses to detect and manage traffic originating from virtual private networks. As verification laws and content distribution a...
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DHS Says Critical ICE Surveillance Footage From Abuse Case Was Actually Never Recorded, Doesn't Matter
Court records reveal the incredibly sad state of ICE's evidence retention systems.
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DHS fight is a long time in the making: 5 takeaways from Minneapolis
The battle over President Trump’s deportation surge has captivated Congress and the country, pushing immigration to the forefront of Washington’s agenda and putting intense new scrutiny on the size an...
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New video shows Alex Pretti interacting with federal agents days before fatal shooting
The footage shows Pretti kicking a car and federal agents tackling him eleven days before he was shot. The video does not capture what led up to the incident. Border Patrol agents who fired in the fat...
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Joaquin Castro shares Texas detention visit with 5-year-old boy, father captured in Minnesota
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) visited a 5-year-old and his father at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas, where they are both being held following their arrests in Minnesota. “I ...
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‘In this Venezuela’: US strike opens new chapter for country familiar with revolution
The seizure of Nicolás Maduro has encouraged Venezuelans, but they are unsure what it means for the state of democracy in the South American nation.
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Open-source malware zeroes in on developer environments
Open source malware activity during 2025 concentrated on a single objective: executing code inside developer environments, according to Sonatype. The focus reflected a broader shift in supply chain at...
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| 🤖Artificial Intelligence | 5 |
Google adds Gemini AI-powered ‘auto browse’ to Chrome
Google is launching a new "auto browse" feature inside Chrome that can perform multi-step tasks on your behalf. The Gemini AI-powered capability is coming to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the...
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What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier
The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents. Earlier this month, Google announced Personal Intelligence, a new way for people t...
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ServiceNow inks another AI partnership, this time with Anthropic
ServiceNow partners with Anthropic just a week after announcing a partnership with OpenAI as the company takes a multi-model approach.
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Anthropic, Apple, OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, praise Trump
Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one addressing concerns publicly and the other in an internal message.
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US cyber defense chief accidentally uploaded secret government info to ChatGPT
Congress recently grilled the acting chief on mass layoffs and a failed polygraph.
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Planes hit by gunfire and blasts heard at airport in Niger capital – reports
Source says two aircraft on ground ‘destroyed’ although authorities yet to comment on situationGunfire and loud blasts have been heard at the main airport in the Nigerien capital of Niamey, according...
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Burnham claims Labour figures ‘lied’ about him to media after he was blocked as byelection candidate – UK politics live
Burnham said that he accepted the party’s decision but the incident had exposed a ‘lying’ cultureFor more context on today’s Starmer-Xi meeting, China is the world’s second-biggest economy and Britain...
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Thursday briefing: Will Keir Starmer’s cautious China gamble pay off?
In today’s newsletter: With China now central to the world’s green tech and economic future, the UK faces a series of strategic discussions it can no longer postponeGood morning. The Starmer has l...
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China executes 11 people linked to Myanmar scam operation
Beijing has stepped up cooperation with south-east Asian nations to crack down on the multibillion-dollar industryChina on Thursday executed 11 people linked to Myanmar criminal gangs, including “key ...
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Why so many people online are leaning into 'turning Chinese'
Suddenly, it’s cool to be Chinese on the internet
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
This newsletter aggregates intelligence from 46 vetted sources.
Generated: 2026-01-29 at 11:35:10 UTC
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