Alice Globus, head of Nanotronics, said AI could minimize the damage done by recent malware attacks on hospitals and the Colonial Pipeline shutdown in 2021. Germany has invested heavily into what officials say will help them find the future of combat through an artificial intelligence (AI) virtual training area some have dubbed a military "metaverse." "We compete with the big ones in the industry," GhostPlay project manager Gary Schaal, a professor at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, wrote in a press release. "Our [Unique Selling Point]: agility and the ability to quickly show results." Developer 21strategies pulled together a mix of start-ups and defense academics to create the virtual battlefield GhostPlay, which allows developers to test out different weapons and systems inside a risk-free environment.