An enemy in a war does not "abuse" your weaknesses. They are "using" them if they are competent. And on the other side? Simple: Having these vulnerabilities is stupid. But the whole war is excessively stupid on the US side. Not the most stupid war ever fought, but probably up in the all-time top-10. And to think the only reason for that war is that a multiple-felon president needs to hide how he raped children.

So they have to, at some point, stop this failed experiment. But has it been implemented? No.

The power of the stupid (politicians, this time) to keep rituals alive that nobody wants is amazing.

Obviously. These companies are only about money, nothing else.

Nope. The problem is that exploit code does not need to be reliable or secure or maintainable or efficient. In fact, having 20 exploit programs and only one works is perfectly fine for an attacker. That approach does not work at all for patching and defense.

That is pretty much what I think as well.

Depends ho crappy that "national security" is. From available evidence, it may be shockingly bad and then even an Artificial Idiot may be a "threat"...

Spreadsheets are not racist, so there is no legal case. LLMs are known to have bias, so there may be one. At least that is what I think is the motivation here.

The problem seems to be that he is difficult to get rid of. Business-strategy wise, he has basically only screwed up for a long time now.

Sad as that is, cannot really argue with your point. The thing is, these may be people that do not have much choice.

Yep. Crappy people doing crappy things.

Seems somebody failed the creativity exam.

Fairphone.

Possibly. Many will currently hope the problems pass fast enough, but they might not. So unless they have reserves and are prepared to spend them...

Indeed. And they are going to be called upon to help clean up the mess many people made going all in on LLMs ...

Yes. Pretty clear leadership failure IMO. And now they are paying for it.