Katrina Manson covers the nexus of cybersecurity, emerging tech and national security at Bloomberg. She has written on AI warfare, international cyber hacking campaigns and the development of AI tools for US defense and intelligence purposes among other topics. Before joining Bloomberg in 2022, she was previously US foreign policy and defense correspondent based in Washington DC for the Financial Times for five years, and before that was the FT's East Africa correspondent based in Kenya for five years. She was previously based in Kinshasa, DR Congo, for Reuters, and prior to that reported from Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Tanzania during more than a decade covering Africa.