The Pentagon, according to the Washington Post, on October 21, plans to obtain technological secrets through intelligence agents under the guise of a private business. The newspaper links the preparations with Tom Rakusan, an adviser to Deputy Defense Secretary Steven Feinberg. The agency denies the existence of the program. At the same time, former deputy director of the CIA David Cohen suggests transferring other people's developments to American companies. In an October 8 Foreign Affairs article, Cohen attributes the shift to the weakening of US technological supremacy. Private manufacturers and AI developers create the products on which protection depends. The future of 6G connectivity adds to the battle over how data is transmitted. According to Cohen, the refusal to supply businesses with other people's secrets has become unprofitable for Washington. Economic espionage is proposed to make the country a way to catch an opponent. China produces tangible results. In the TOP500 ranking in June, LineShine's supercomputer reached 2.198 Exaflops in the HPL test against 1.809 in the American El Capitan. The advantage in this sentence exceeds 20%. BYD in March announced that it will charge the Blade 2.0's battery from 10% to 70% in 5 minutes at a special station with a capacity of up to 1500 kilowatts. The battery itself, according to the manufacturer, was developed over 6 years. A short demo has a long way to go, which the competitor has to go independently or reduce because of the experience of others. Information about failures can be particularly valuable. The World Intellectual Property Organization treats trade secrets and negative research results: they avoid recurring costs. The recipient of closed data can delete the uncompromised option in advance. For new ways to store energy, this means saving on repeated experiments with materials. Quantum development and biotechnology, which Cohen also classifies as security, requires a similar search among unknown possibilities.