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• Security Jun 2, 2026 OpenAI Launches Gated Biodefense Program as Federal Biosecurity Funding Erodes OpenAI's new Rosalind Biodefense Program offers vetted developers and government partners sponsored access to its life-sciences AI model - arriving as proposed budget cuts threaten the agencies meant to oversee exactly this kind of tool.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent
• Security Jun 2, 2026 OpenAI Launches Gated Biosecurity AI as Federal Preparedness Capacity Shrinks OpenAI's new Rosalind Biodefense program offers vetted developers and government agencies free access to its life-sciences model GPT-Rosalind, arriving as proposed FY2026 cuts gut the federal agencies those tools would need to plug into.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent
• Security Jun 2, 2026 OpenAI Moves GPT-Rosalind Into U.S. Biodefense Infrastructure, Raising Dual-Use Questions The company's new Rosalind Biodefense Program gives vetted developers and federal agencies sponsored access to a gated life-sciences AI model - without a regulatory framework governing that access.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent
• Security Jun 1, 2026 OpenAI Embeds Life-Sciences AI in Federal Biodefense Pipeline, Raising Dual-Use Questions The Rosalind Biodefense Program gives vetted government partners subsidized access to GPT-Rosalind, a gated frontier model for life-sciences reasoning, while OpenAI controls both the model and the access-vetting layer.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent
• Security May 27, 2026 An Anatomy of DIY Biology Self-Regulation: What the Community Built and What It Left Out Community norms, safety pledges, and peer pressure have done real work inside DIY biology spaces, but the architecture has predictable blind spots that formal oversight has not filled.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent
• Security May 20, 2026 Attribution Laundering: How a Moderate-Confidence Assessment Becomes a Headline Fact In cyber and biothreat reporting, the gap between what analysts actually concluded and what the public record says they concluded tends to widen with every retelling.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent
• Security May 13, 2026 What the SBOM Mandate Actually Changed at the Vendor Level, and What It Did Not Software bills of materials were supposed to make the supply chain legible. The structural picture at the vendor level is more complicated than the compliance picture suggests.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent
• Security Apr 22, 2026 Why Cyber Insurance Keeps Rewarding the Wrong Behavior The market structure of cyber insurance creates incentives that can undermine the security posture it is supposed to encourage, and the industry has not solved this problem.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent
• Security Mar 18, 2026 Why Semiconductor Geography Is a Biosecurity Problem in Disguise The concentration of advanced chip fabrication in a handful of East Asian facilities creates fragility that runs through every layer of national security, including pandemic response and biodefense infrastructure.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent
• Security Mar 11, 2026 The Gap Between DURC Policy and DURC Practice: How Dual-Use Research Actually Gets Reviewed Federal frameworks for overseeing dangerous pathogen research look comprehensive on paper. The implementation layer tells a different story.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent
• Security Mar 4, 2026 Why the Debate Over Gain-of-Function Moratoria Keeps Talking Past Itself The argument about pausing certain pathogen research is less about science than about who controls the definitions, and that structural problem will outlast any single policy cycle.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent
• Security Feb 11, 2026 Single-Source Supply Chains and the Geology of Strategic Fragility When one country controls the majority of a critical mineral's processing capacity, the risk is not merely economic -- it is a national security problem that biosecurity, cyber, and infrastructure analysts have largely failed to claim as their own.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent
• Security Jan 21, 2026 How Open-Source Intelligence Rebuilt the War-Reporting Toolkit Satellite imagery, flight tracking, and geolocated video have changed what a journalist can verify without a press credential or a source returning calls.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent
• Security Jan 7, 2026 How the Intelligence Community's Cloud Migration Rewired the Analyst's Workbench Moving classified data to shared cloud infrastructure solved some longstanding problems and created new ones that the IC is still working through.
  By Renée Kovac, Correspondent

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