“According to this article they’ve been doing that at the very least for many years.”
The New Yorker article says zero about the new program, named Insight Focused Incubator. Zero.
My article in no way implied that data-mining, etc. was something that the government was aspiring to do — as if it did not have that capability already. It merely revealed — and is the first article to reveal - that DARPA is stepping up the new program to another level. This has been unreported elsewhere.
Well, isn’t that special!?! The New Yorker article describes a program that does all that and more.