IntelCenter CEO Ben Venzke conducted an hour-long extensive and in-depth interview with the ICD Domain GenAI on 17 Aug. 2024 about the consequences of continued significant cuts to counterterrorism efforts across Western countries and what this means for the future. At the time, the ICD Domain GenAI had access to more than 72M spoken and written words from terrorist and rebel groups around the world going back to 2001.

IntelCenter asked its ICD Domain GenAI which groups would actively fight with Iran in the event of a regional war in the Middle East and what their roles would be. At the time, the ICD Domain GenAI had access to more than 65M words from terrorist, rebel, separatist and proxy groups around the world going back to 1 Sep. 2001.

IntelCenter asked its ICD Domain GenAI to assess the terrorist threat to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games. At the time, the ICD Domain GenAI had access to more than 65M words from terrorist, rebel, separatist and proxy groups going back to 1 Sep. 2001.

IntelCenter asked its Houthis Domain GenAI what the main themes of Houthi statements are so far in 2024. At the time, the Houthis Domain GenAI had access to more than 4M words from the Houthis in Yemen going back to 6 Nov. 2009.

IntelCenter asked its Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Domain GenAI to identify the main concerns of the DPR in Ukraine so far in 2024. At the time, the DPR Domain GenAI had access to more than 3.5M words from the DPR going back to 29 Jun. 2014.

IntelCenter ICD Domain GenAI identifies top five things it finds most interesting with access to more than 50M words spoken and written by terrorist, rebel, separatist and proxy groups around the world.

IntelCenter was founded 35 years ago this month. Ever since those early days, IntelCenter has remained relentlessly focused on its national security mission and continued to push the limits on innovations that can be practically applied against threat actor generated content for collection, analysis and exploitation.

IntelCenter asked its Islamic State (IS) Domain GenAI to provide advice to a corporate security director of a global tech company on the threat posed by IS to its facilities and traveling executives.

IntelCenter asked its IS Domain GenAI to break out the focus of IS based on the group’s messaging in 2024 and 2023 and then identify what has changed. The response was insightful and concerning. In short, IS concern about being eliminated by the international coalition has faded away. It is still very much focused on growing the group.

Islamic State's (IS) Amaq News audio/video annual release rate was down 6% in 2022 from 2021. It has held relatively stable for the four-year period from 2019 to 2022. However, its rate of releases plummeted in the first five months of 2023. Its current rate is on track for an 80% drop in 2023 from 2022.

al-Qaeda's as-Sahab audio/video annual release rate was up 214% in 2022 from 2021. The spike in releases reversed the record lows of the three prior years, however, 2023 is now on track to return as-Sahab to record low levels.

Al-Qaeda Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri has surpassed his annual average for audio/video releases in 2022 and is on track to set a new annual release rate record. He has so far had 12 audio/video releases for 2022, as of 14 Jul..

Global animated heatmap showing terrorist and rebel produced audio/video releases over time.

Al-Qaeda Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri is on track to set a new audio/video annual release rate record in 2022. He has so far had 11 audio/video releases for 2022, as of 24 Jun..

Al-Zawahiri is currently putting out new audio/video releases in 2022 at a rate of one every 13.9 days compared to the 2021 rate of one every 122 days. It represents a 778% increase in the daily release rate.

The heatmap shows audio/video releases for Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) for April 2022 in Ukraine.

The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) significantly stepped up audio/video releases in the days just prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and have sustained that effort since.

Map showing 60K manually collected terrorist and rebel audio/video releases available in the IntelCenter Database (ICD).