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📢 Datenna is thrilled to announce that Sir Alex Younger, former Chief of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), has joined our Advisory Board. With a career spanning over three decades, Sir Alex is the longest-serving MI6 chief in 50 years. His expertise in national security, counterterrorism, and navigating the digital era brings invaluable insight to our mission. He’ll work closely with our executive team to tackle emerging national security challenges, especially in the tech space and geopolitical landscape, with a focus on China. 💬 "The intersection of technology, geopolitics, and security has never been more critical," said Sir Alex. "I look forward to contributing to a more secure and resilient future." With Sir Alex on board, Datenna continues its commitment to delivering cutting-edge techno-economic intelligence on China, helping organisations mitigate risks in today’s rapidly evolving global environment. #OSINT #NatSec

This week, we say farewell and express our deepest gratitude to Martijn Rasser, our U.S. Managing Director, as he embarks on an exciting new chapter. During the past two years, Martijn took Datenna’s U.S. presence from concept to reality, establishing a strong foundation in the national security space. His expertise has left a lasting impact, and we are incredibly grateful for his contributions. While we’ll certainly miss him, we couldn’t be more excited for his next chapter at Special Competitive Studies Project - SCSP, where he will continue driving forward the mission he has been so passionate about. We have no doubt he’ll make an incredible impact. From all of us at Datenna: thank you, Martijn! Wishing you continued success in your new role. #leadership #nationalsecurity #innovation

At Datenna, we’re proud to have some of the brightest minds guiding us—including Sir Alex Younger, former MI6 Chief and a leading authority on global security and intelligence. Recently, Sir Alex appeared on BBC's flagship TV program Newsnight to discuss the shifting dynamics of international relations, offering his insights on geopolitics, diplomacy, and the challenges ahead. His expertise in intelligence and strategy is exactly what makes him such a valuable advisor to Datenna. Link to the full interview in comments: #Geopolitics #Intelligence #Leadership #Datenna #BBC

Datenna’s CTO & Co-founder Edward Brinkmann will be presenting at the Neo4j #GraphSummit 2025 in Amsterdam on March 13th! Edward will be addressing key questions on how technology can help understand and analyse China’s ever-evolving techno-economic landscape, and how Datenna’s unique high-tech approach has helped it evolve into a global leader on high-quality OSINT data on China. Datenna has built a digital twin of China using advanced data science and GenAI methods combined with the rigorous work of trained China experts, bringing reliable, actionable and timely data for demanding users around the world. Want to know how we’re doing it? Interested in leveraging GenAI and cutting-edge technologies in building your own applications? Come see Edward’s presentation together with workshops and latest product updates at Graphsummit Amsterdam on March 13th! #Datascience #China #OSINT #GenAI #SaaS

🖥️China is becoming increasingly prominent as a producer of DRAM memory chips, writes the Financial Times, going from almost no domestic production capacity in 2016 to having only one of its companies, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), hold an estimated 15 percent global market share in DRAM. 💡CXMT is also looking to break into the high-bandwidth memory field, essential in AI applications. The company is set up to further ramp up its production volume, increasing pressure on the lower end of the memory chip market. 💹This ascendance exhibits many common features of China's industrial policy. As the FT points out, CXMT received a major investment from China's state-funded Integrated Circuit Industry "Big" Fund. Datenna's data also shows investments from various other state-affiliated investors. ❗Keeping track of Chinese industrial policy funding, running in the hundreds of billions of dollars, is essential for understanding the broader techno-economic landscape and its strategic implications for foreign countries. ➡️Datenna's solutions can provide these specialised insights, allowing users to track investments and state links across a vast quantity of corporate and academic entities. Our rigorous in-house data acquisition processes and data science expertise ensure reliable, actionable and impactful data, trusted by clients globally.

New research from Ben Forney for The Jamestown Foundation uncovers growing European ties to China’s military-linked universities—raising concerns about unintended tech transfers to Russia. Forney finds that between December 2024 and January 2025, over 20 new agreements were signed between European universities and China’s “Seven Sons”—key players in China’s military modernization and military-civil fusion. Given their deepening links to Russian universities, the author highlights the risks of tech-transfer to Russian military entities, thus indirectly aiding Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Datenna’s research found that these universities are just the tip of the iceberg—dual-use research ties across China’s academic landscape pose even broader risks. This also puts increasing demands on universities to more effectively develop approaches to balance these risks with the significant benefits of collaboration. 🔍 Read the full report in the comments. (Image: Academic collaborations with selected Chinese universities by country. Source: Datenna.) #academicsecurity #AI #knowledgesecurity #China

Newsweek has revealed intriguing new details about the 2023 spy balloon that strained U.S.-China relations. Didi Kirsten Tatlow's investigation uncovered that the balloon carried a significant amount of U.S. technology, including satellite communication systems used to relay data back to its controllers. At Datenna, we dug into our proprietary databases to investigate further—and uncovered more critical insights. The article references a patent from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Aerospace Information Innovation Research Institute, describing technology similar to what was used in the balloon. 💡 Our findings: 1️⃣ Our data shows that this institute has filed dozens of patents in recent years, including communications and radar technologies for UAVs. 2️⃣ The institute has been actively involved in military procurements for key PLA organizations, including the former Strategic Support Force and the Academy of Military Sciences. 3️⃣ The Institute has developed geospatial data applications for these organizations, including training models based on imaging data and even direct procurement of geospatial imaging data. These findings are crucial for analysts assessing the risk profiles of Chinese end users and collaboration partners. #exportcontrols #spyballoon #US-China #dualuse Image from original article: LARRY MAYER/THE BILLINGS GAZETTE VIA AP

Mark your calendars and register for Neo4j Graphsummit Amsterdam on March 13th at A'dam Tower. Come and listen to Neo4j's Sudhir Hasbe and Neha Bajwa on product roadmap and vision. Hear first hand how Datenna and Rijksmuseum are using Neo4j. Interact with other graphista's and expand your own Graph. Get inspired and be there! https://lnkd.in/eVJ25KxK #graph #AI #GraphRAG #neo4j #graphsummit

🚀Is DeepSeek truly China’s AI ‘Sputnik moment?’ The jury may still be out, but the last few weeks have nevertheless been proof of China’s significant R&D capacity and growing human capital in high technology fields. 🗞️The New York Times’ Vivian Wang looks at the increasingly robust higher education sector behind China’s technological advances. Unlike with many of China’s other tech success stories, the team behind DeepSeek is largely domestically educated at top institutions like Tsinghua and Peking Universities. 🧠China has vastly expanded its higher education apparatus in recent decades, and the country’s top schools have quickly risen in international rankings, ensuring an increasingly highly educated talent pool. ⬛At the same time, many parts China’s HE sector remain largely unknown outside the country, despite vast amounts of advanced research taking place there, leading to an information gap on where China and other countries stand in their level of tech advancement. ➡️Datenna’s OSINT platform offers industry-leading capabilities for tracking China’s scientific research projects, ensuring that users can stay updated on research that can impact national, technological and economic security abroad, without being impeded by language barriers and hard-to-access sources.

🖥️China is making progress in memory chips, with leading manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies, reaching a node size of 16 nanometres, narrowing the gap with industry leaders. This comes in addition to recent advances in logic chips and AI technology and despite expanding US export controls. 📈In addition to leading players, new startups are sprouting up with potential to upset the field in various advanced technologies. This means having access to deep, detailed and up-to-date information on the Chinese industry landscape is essential. ➡️At Datenna, we make it our mission to deliver the best data on the Chinese tech landscape, empowering users to keep their finger on the pulse of ever-accelerating developments. ❗Check out our special reports on China's tech developments and more here: https://lnkd.in/eqXTh4-y