Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue Launches the Global Trusted Tech Network at the 2025 Trusted Tech Summit
The Global Trusted Tech Network is the world’s fastest-growing alliance of governments, companies, and institutions advancing freedom through trusted technology.
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Tech Diplomacy Updates
Top News of the Week
Latest News
Technology Strategy and Policy
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Telecommunications Networks and Infrastructure
Critical Minerals
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Quantum
Advanced Aerospace Technology
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
Energy and Climate
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The Last Word
Krach Institute Launches the Global Trusted Tech Network at the 2025 Trusted Tech Summit
On November 17, 2025, at the fourth annual Trusted Tech Summit in Washington, DC, the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue launched the Global Trusted Tech Network, the world’s fastest-growing alliance of governments, companies, individuals and institutions united around the conviction that technology must advance freedom. The Global Trusted Tech Network is built on trust and grounded in integrity, accountability, transparency, reciprocity and respect for the fundamental pillars of free societies, like respect for the rule of law, human rights, property rights, and national sovereignty. It is the organizing framework for a new era of Tech Diplomacy that recognizes the centrality of technology at the heart of the modern contest between freedom and authoritarianism.
Pictured clockwise left to right: James Roscoe, Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy of the United Kingdom in the US; Ebba Busch, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Energy, Business and Industry of Sweden; Michelle Giuda, Krach Institute CEO; Mung Chiang, President of Purdue and Co-Founder of the Krach Institute; Keith Krach, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Krach Institute; Greg Levesque, Strider CEO; Mark LaVerghetta, ReElement Co-Founder and Director; Aaron Slodov, Atomic Industries Co-Founder and CEO; Rep. Young Kim (CA); and Rep. John Moolenaar (MI).
Read the full announcement.
See the full event recap.
Atomic, ReElement, Strider and Sweden Honored with Trusted Tech Leadership Awards
At the 2025 Trusted Tech Summit, the Krach Institute presented its annual Trusted Tech Leadership Awards to leaders and institutions exemplifying integrity, courage, and innovation in advancing trusted technology across the AI stack:
Atomic Industries — for re-imagining advanced manufacturing as a cornerstone of freedom
ReElement Technologies — for advancing secure and sustainable critical-minerals supply chains
Strider Technologies — for pioneering counter-intelligence solutions that protect innovation from foreign adversaries
Government of Sweden — for demonstrating that innovation can be Europe’s greatest export
Top News of the Week – Washington launches an effort to apply AI to Scientific Research
In November, the Trump Administration released its “Genesis Mission” which seeks to apply artificial intelligence to the troves of scientific data that the United States Government holds. This effort has the potential to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery.
Key Points:
On November 24th, President Trump signed an executive order launching the Genesis Mission which seeks to build an integrated artificial intelligence platform to accelerate scientific research across the U.S. Government and the institutions that take tax-payer money for research.
The platform will rely upon high-performance computing resources and could serve as a boost to hyperscalers who need additional funding to build out AI data centers.
At almost the same time, the United Kingdom announced a similar program built on an effort that has been underway at the Alan Turing Institute since 2018.
More on Background:
New US plan for ‘AI in science’ could change how research is done, for better or worse – Science Business, November 27, 2025
Launching the Genesis Mission – The White House, November 24, 2025
Trump aims to boost AI innovation, build platform to harness government data – Reuters, November 24, 2025
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Unveils the Genesis Mission to Accelerate AI for Scientific Discovery – The White House, November 24, 2025
AI for Science Strategy – Government of the United Kingdom, November 20, 2025
AI for science and government (ASG) – Alan Turing Institute
Latest News
3 Chinese nationals charged with smuggling Nvidia, HP chips to China – ABC News, November 20, 2025
CISA, eyeing China, plans hiring spree to rebuild its depleted ranks – Cybersecurity Dive, November 17, 2025
Now Tech Moguls Want to Build Data Centers in Outer Space – WSJ, November 16, 2025
US approves $429m arms sale to Taiwan, the first under Trump – The Straits Times, November 14, 2025
Technology Strategy and Policy
Europe Fears It Can’t Catch Up in Great Power Competition – WSJ, November 27, 2025
Reverse Deng? For Professionals Only: Countries contemplating letting Chinese firms invest in areas like EVs should seek to emulate China’s strategy in full. – The Wire China, November 23, 2025
Trump Team Internally Floats Idea of Selling Nvidia H200 Chips to China – Bloomberg, November 21, 2025
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom – Politico, November 10, 2025
Artificial Intelligence
The party’s AI: How China’s new AI systems are reshaping human rights – ASPI, December 1, 2025
Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy – WSJ, November 24, 2025
When Chinese censorship breaks AI code – Politico, November 24, 2025
CrowdStrike Research: Security Flaws in DeepSeek-Generated Code Linked to Political Triggers – Crowdstrike, November 20, 2025
Telecommunications Networks and Infrastructure
The Battle Over Africa’s Great Untapped Resource: IP Addresses – WSJ, November 28, 2025
Is Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet? – Krebs on Security, November 24, 2025
Redundancy, Resiliency, and Repair: Securing Subsea Cable Infrastructure – Erin Murphy, CSIS, November 21, 2025
Google, Meta Delay Red Sea Cables as Security Risks Rattle Plans – Bloomberg, November 17, 2025
EU Eyes Huawei Ban in Mobile Networks of Member Countries – Bloomberg, November 10, 2025
Critical Minerals
World’s Largest Lithium Deposit Ever—Worth $1.5 Trillion—Was Confirmed Under a U.S. Supervolcano – MSN, December 1, 2025
China pitches closer ties to Germany in strategic industries to ease rare earth strains – Reuters, November 24, 2025
The Failed Crusade to Keep a Rare-Earths Mine Out of China’s Hands – WSJ, November 22, 2025
Office of Strategic Capital Agrees to Joint $700M Conditional Loan Commitment with Vulcan Elements and ReElement Technologies – U.S. Department of Defense, November 21, 2025
West scrambles to fill heavy rare earth gap as China rivalry deepens – Reuters, November 19, 2025
Synthetic Biology
Italy’s pharma spending and competitiveness: the risks of new burdens – Decode 39, December 1, 2025
From feedstocks to infrastructure, Indiana’s bioeconomy is on the move – Biopharma Dive, December 1, 2025
Chinese pharma is on the cusp of going global – The Economist, November 23, 2025
China’s biopharma boom echoes EV industry’s success and stresses – Nikkei Asia, November 10, 2025
Quantum
Has NTT sparked the long-awaited quantum-computing revolution? – Fast Company, December 2, 2025
Insider Data Trends Show Quantum Entering Industrial Deployment – Quantum Insider, December 2, 2025
Scientists just found a way to tell if quantum computers are wrong – Science Daily, December 1, 2025
Chicago’s quantum computing center a benefit of tolerance – Chicago Sun Times, November 30, 2025
Advanced Aerospace Technology
Chinese researchers simulate large-scale electronic warfare against Elon Musk’s Starlink – SCMP, November 23, 2025
Hard Lessons in Hypersonics – The Wire China, November 23, 2025
Taiwan set for homegrown satellite leap with SpaceX launch – Nikkei Asia, November 19, 2025
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
China Is Slowly but Surely Breaking Free from Nvidia – The Information, December 1, 2025
Nexperia Urges China Unit to Restore Chip Flow Amid Fears of Supply Squeeze – WSJ, November 28, 2025
Nvidia says its GPUs are a ‘generation ahead’ of Google’s AI chips – CNBC, November 25, 2025
The chipmaking pay revolution buys time, but will not solve scarcity of engineers – FT, November 23, 2025
The new silicon valley (literally) – The Verge, November 21, 2025
Energy and Climate
Can Chinese-Made Buses Be Hacked? Norway Drove One Down a Mine to Find Out – WSJ, November 19, 2025
Tesla Wants Its American Cars to Be Built Without Any Chinese Parts – WSJ, November 15, 2025
Opinion and Commentary
Vietnam’s Huawei deal exposes limits of Western pressure on China – Franklin Okeke, Unherd, December 1, 2025
The Underwater Cables That Carry the Internet Are in Trouble – James Stavridies, Bloomberg, November 26, 2025
Why U.S. Tech Flip-Flops on China Are So Disastrous – Justin Sherman, Foreign Policy, November 25, 2025
The First Large-Scale Cyberattack by AI: With basic tech and little human oversight, Chinese spies apparently exploited Anthropic’s Claude Code. – Nury Turkel, WSJ, November 23, 2025
The cyberattacks are coming. Will anyone be there to stop them? – Lauryn Williams, WaPo, November 20, 2025
Today’s Rare Earths Conflict Echoes the 1973 Oil Crisis — But It’s Not the Same – Alvin Camba, Carnegie Endowment, November 14, 2025
The Last Word
“George Washington entrusted us with ‘liberty’s sacred fire,’ and as we launch the Global Trusted Tech Network on the eve of America’s 250th anniversary, that fire still burns in free people worldwide.”
– Keith Krach, Chairman, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue
About: Tech Diplomacy Now
The Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue is the world’s preeminent trusted technology accelerator. As the leader of the new category of Tech Diplomacy, the Institute integrates technology expertise, Silicon Valley strategies, and foreign policy tools to build the Global Trusted Tech Network of governments, companies, organizations and individuals to accelerate the innovation and adoption of trusted technology and ensure technology advances freedom.