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Burak Oktenli

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The Pentagon’s freezer mystery holds a warning about military AI

The Pentagon’s freezer mystery holds a warning about military AI

The most useful warning about military automation last week did not come from a drone swarm, a command center, or a classified exercise. It came from...

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Washington Examiner

Burak Oktenli

Financial AI Should Not Have One Big Permission Called ‘Trade’ – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Payment systems are learning to give AI agents narrow, traceable and revocable authority. Capital markets should do the

04.09.2026 2

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Autonomous Weapons Treaties Should Verify Permission, Not Intelligence – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Geneva has spent a decade debating what military AI can decide. A workable treaty should ask a more

03.09.2026 4

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

The AI Scientist Has A Metrology Problem – OpEd

The AI Scientist Has A Metrology Problem – OpEd

Key Takeaways: AI can optimize inference, but it cannot recover information that an instrument never measured. A Casimir-force inverse problem

03.09.2026 4

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Trump promised to drain the swamp. AI is making it unfireable

Trump promised to drain the swamp. AI is making it unfireable

President Donald Trump’s case against the federal bureaucracy rests on a simple observation: It is slow, it is unaccountable, and it is nearly...

03.09.2026 2

Washington Examiner

Burak Oktenli

The AI Age Needs A New Definition Of Sovereignty – OpEd

The AI Age Needs A New Definition Of Sovereignty – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Sovereignty is coming to include the ability to continue, constrain, inspect, revoke and recover essential machine decision systems

02.09.2026 4

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Trump’s AI mandate: Defining killer robots won’t save us — hardcoding human control will

Trump’s AI mandate: Defining killer robots won’t save us — hardcoding human control will

President Donald Trump gave the Pentagon 90 days to update the rule governing autonomy in weapon systems. That window closes this week. The...

02.09.2026 6

Washington Examiner

Burak Oktenli

The Next Autonomous-Weapon Failure May Be A Drone That Obeys Every Rule – OpEd

Key Takeaways: As governments return to Geneva to debate autonomous weapons, the hardest control problem is not a machine that

31.08.2026 6

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

We Can See Earth’s Past, We Cannot Send It A Message – OpEd

We Can See Earth’s Past, We Cannot Send It A Message – OpEd

Key Takeaways: The universe is full of old light. That makes the past observable in remarkable ways – but it

31.08.2026 6

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

COVID Had Quarantines And Vaccines: A Cyber Pandemic Could Infect The Cure – OpEd

COVID Had Quarantines And Vaccines: A Cyber Pandemic Could Infect The Cure – OpEd

Key Takeaways: More than 100 technology, cybersecurity and financial organizations say a narrow “defenders’ window” is closing. The deeper danger

28.08.2026 10

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

What The Next Collider Can Really Give The World Beyond Particle Physics – OpEd

Key Takeaways: CERN’s most durable spillovers are not ready-made products. They are reusable tools, standards, detectors, and engineering practices...

26.08.2026 9

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Nobody Audits The Clock – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Distributed science treats time as bookkeeping even when coincidence is part of the measurement. Timestamps deserve uncertainty,...

25.08.2026 10

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Science Has Discovery Thresholds, It Also Needs Stop Rules – OpEd

Key Takeaways: AI can make anomaly hunting nearly limitless. Researchers should define in advance what would close, downgrade, or pause

24.08.2026 10

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

AI Agents Are Getting Wallets, Security Needs To Follow The Money – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Payments are turning agentic AI from advisers into economic actors. The near-term control problem is not what a

24.08.2026 10

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

The Machine Can Be Tuned, The Nucleus Cannot Be Persuaded – OpEd

Key Takeaways: AI can tune an accelerator, cut downtime and make better use of scarce beam time. It cannot negotiate

21.08.2026 8

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

The Next Flash Crash May Happen On A Battlefield – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Financial markets learned to interrupt machine-speed cascades without abandoning automation. Military AI needs the same system-level...

21.08.2026 10

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

AI Can Find The Weird, It Cannot Tell Us What It Is – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Artificial intelligence is becoming extraordinarily good at finding unusual patterns in scientific data. The harder problem is...

19.08.2026 7

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

When Machines Search For Discoveries, Science Has To Count The Search – OpEd

Key Takeaways: AI systems can scan millions of hypotheses before surfacing one anomaly. The statistical evidence must account for the

19.08.2026 10

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Trump is right to send allies the bill. Cutting our own drills is the wrong currency

Within a matter of days, Washington produced three snapshots of the hidden bill from the Iran war. The Pentagon signed a $22.9 billion contract to...

19.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Burak Oktenli

Earthquakes Shake The Ionosphere, That Doesn’t Mean It Predicts Them – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Post-earthquake ionospheric disturbances are established science. Pre-earthquake precursor claims face a harder test: they must beat...

18.08.2026 10

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Every Measurement Has A Physical Limit: Scientific AI Pretends Otherwise – OpEd

Key Takeaways AI can produce a precise estimate even when an experiment no longer contains enough information to identify the

18.08.2026 30

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Trump handed cops the power to jam drones. Bad software could ruin it

President Donald Trump spent the last year breaking open a counter-drone system that kept too much authority bottled up in Washington. His June 2025...

17.08.2026 5

Washington Examiner

Burak Oktenli

The Pentagon is cutting red tape — and setting a legal minefield for AI contractors

Three weeks from now, the War Department owes Congress a report that could matter far beyond the Pentagon. Section 1512 of the fiscal 2026 defense...

16.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Burak Oktenli

The Next Arms-Control Breakthrough May Be A Proof That Reveals Almost Nothing – OpEd

Key Takeaways Military AI is too sensitive for full transparency. The United States, China, and other powers should begin testing

14.08.2026 10

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Trump says humans control the bomb. The code doesn’t know that yet

President Donald Trump has made a clear promise on military artificial intelligence: move faster without breaking the constitutional chain of command....

14.08.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Burak Oktenli

We’re building Beijing’s spy network for them, one convenient device at a time

On July 28, the Federal Communications Commission added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices to its Covered List after national security agencies...

13.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Burak Oktenli

Medical AI Can Pass The Test And Still Fail Patients – OpEd

Key Takeaways New reasoning models still reproduce medical stereotypes. Safety evaluation should expose subgroup failures before aggregate performance...

12.08.2026 10

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Trump’s AI exemption isn’t an oversight gap. It’s a national security masterstroke

The Trump administration made a sound distinction this week when it told leading AI companies that open-weight models would remain outside a new...

06.08.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Burak Oktenli

Trump isn’t John Lennon. That’s why his Iran strategy might actually work

Adam Turner argues that President Donald Trump is wasting time by negotiating with Iran. Turner gives a sobering account of the regime’s record, but...

05.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Burak Oktenli

Silicon Valley can’t own the Pentagon’s kill switch

U.S. Special Operations Command chief Adm. Frank Bradley recently warned that troops must be careful about how artificial intelligence enters the...

04.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Burak Oktenli

Europe Delayed Its AI Rules Because The Institutions Were Not Ready – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Governments are writing AI laws faster than they are building the bodies that can investigate failures, hear appeals

03.08.2026 20

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Today’s Hydra Problem: Decapitation Without Degradation – OpEd

Key Takeaways: In the marshes of Lerna, Heracles swung at a many-headed serpent and watched two heads rise where he

27.07.2026 20

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Who Yields In Orbit? Autonomous Satellites Need A Right-Of-Way Rule – OpEd

Key Takeaways: In September 2019, the European Space Agency faced a decision it had almost no framework for making. Updated

21.07.2026 20

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Why We Punish The Protection That Works – OpEd

Key Takeaways: There is a particular kind of success that no one thanks you for, because when it works, nothing

21.07.2026 20

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

The Next Offset Won’t Be A Smarter AI, It Will Be A Governable One – OpEd

Key Takeaways: The debate over military artificial intelligence is organized around the wrong question. It asks how capable the next

20.07.2026 10

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli

Two Years After CrowdStrike, We Are Still Afraid Of The Wrong AI Apocalypse – OpEd

Key Takeaways: This Sunday marks two years since the morning the modern world stuttered. At nine minutes past four Coordinated

18.07.2026 20

Eurasia Review

Burak Oktenli