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Overland AI Completes Successful Deployment with 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division at JRTC

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:24:23 +0000

Overland AI successfully completed an operational deployment with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division (3-82) at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), Fort Polk, Louisiana. Over the course of a month-long Combat Training Center rotation, four ULTRA autonomous ground vehicles were fully integrated into the Brigade’s scheme of maneuver. They executed contested logistics, […]

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Overland AI Demonstrates Autonomous Ground Capability for USMC ROGUE Fires

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:21:53 +0000

Overland AI, the leader in ground-based autonomous capabilities, has successfully integrated the Overland AI OverDrive system onto the Marine Corps’ Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary (ROGUE) Fires platform for prototyping. OverDrive, Overland AI’s autonomy stack that is purpose-built for rugged terrain, and SPARK, the autonomy kit including sensors and compute, are intended to enable […]

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Dozens of Thai opposition figures to go on trial over bid to amend royal insult law

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:16:23 +0000

Thailand’s Supreme Court said on Friday that 44 current and former opposition lawmakers will go on trial over an attempt to amend a law that protects the monarchy from criticism, in another blow to the country’s progressive movement. The 44 facing trial from June 30 for alleged ethics violations include serving and former lawmakers of […]

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Deadly meningitis spreads as Sudanese refugees pack Chad camps, MSF says

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:14:51 +0000

Cases of deadly meningitis are surging in eastern Chad, killing nearly 12% of children who catch it in an area ‌housing hundreds of thousands of war refugees from neighbouring Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Thursday. Measles is also spreading in the border town of Adre, where an increase in arrivals in recent weeks […]

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China bans dual-use item exports to seven European entities over Taiwan arms sales

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:10:29 +0000

China’s Commerce Ministry said on Friday it was banning exports of dual-use items to seven European entities over arms sales to Taiwan, placing them ‌immediately on its export control list, in a rare case of Europe-targeted, Taiwan-related sanctions. Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, gets most of its weapons from the U.S. Europe […]

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White House accuses China of ‘industrial-scale’ theft of AI technology

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:08:18 +0000

The White House has accused China of undertaking industrial-scale theft of American artificial intelligence labs’ intellectual property and warned that it would crack down on a practice that exploits US innovation. “The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil US frontier AI […]

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Could thousands of US ‘hellscape’ drone boats mess with PLA plans for Taiwan?

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:04:46 +0000

Taiwanese analysts have broadly welcomed a new US Navy plan to deploy thousands of uncrewed surface vessels across the Indo-Pacific by 2030, saying it could complicate Beijing’s military planning and strengthen deterrence. But they also warned that unless Taipei pressed ahead with its own stalled drone fleet ambitions, the approach might offer Taiwan only limited […]

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China to Curb US Investment in Tech Companies After Meta Deal

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:02:01 +0000

Chinese regulators plan to restrict technology firms including some of the country’s highest-profile AI pioneers from accepting US capital without government approval, part of Beijing’s broader response to Meta Platforms Inc.’s controversial acquisition of startup Manus. Agencies including the National Development and Reform Commission have told several private firms in recent weeks they should reject […]

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Meta inks deal to use more Amazon chips

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:00:14 +0000

Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have struck a multibillion-dollar deal for the social-media giant to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon’s general-purpose chips for its AI efforts. The multiyear deal gives Meta access to the Graviton line of processors, Nafea Bshara, an Amazon vice president and co-founder of the company’s Annapurna Labs chips unit, […]

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DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:57:54 +0000

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two preview models, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash. Both models are 1 million token context Mixture of Experts. Pro is 1.6T total parameters, 49B active. Flash is 284B […]

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