In-Q-Tel

The CIA’s Latest Investment: Robot Writers

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I’ve covered the CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, before (yes the CIA has a venture capital arm.  In that instance, I raised concerns about Palantir, a company started by Peter Theil in 2004 and in which I-Q-Tel was an early investor. The post was titled:  Is Peter Thiel Assisting the Government in the Creation of … Read more

Here’s What the CIA Has Been Investing in…You’re Not Gonna Like it

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This may be the most frightening article I have read in 2012 and that is saying a lot.  Courtesy of an anonymous author posting at Gizmodo, we find out about the CIA’s latest investment, The Genia Photonics’ Picosecond Programmable Laser scanner.  What’s that you ask?  Well let’s go to some quotes from the article to … Read more