That isn’t the best thing they’ve come up with. It’s a marquee product that is fit for public consumption, however.

The ‘best’ things are; - fuzzy pattern matching algorithms for traffic analysis, human and other image target recognition.

- targeting algorithms that identify ‘suspicious’ individuals in large volumes of metadata.

- fraud analysis

- antagonistic image and video generation, both for fooling other fraud analysis, but also for propaganda, screwing with other actors, etc.

- directed high speed content generation (text, pictures, video) to spam the ‘algorithm’ and allow near realtime identification of additional buttons to push for given target audiences.

- massive marketing/ad manipulation.

Those budget line items (and the suppliers) really want to stay off the radar however, as it makes their life harder.