Sources: xAI was part of a US GSA's AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but the GSA removed xAI after Grok posted antisemitic content in July
A short thread for the reader to try figure out what the common denominator is here. — A. Grok was about to get a lucrative Govt. contract. It went all Nazi, because well, birds of a feather ... 1...
Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to “infrastructure of the police state”; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven
One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend …
A look at Project Maven, the US DOD's flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data
and could run at speeds faster than humans can comprehend https://www.bloomberg.com/... Katrina Manson / @katrinamanson : AI identifies targets and supplies Maven Smart System, along with other data f...
A look at Project Maven, the US DOD's flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data
On a summer evening in 2020 at Fort Liberty, a sprawling US Army installation in North Carolina, soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps pored …
The CTO for US Central Command says ML algorithms developed under Project Maven helped narrow down targets for 85+ air strikes in the Middle East on February 2
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg :
Google is aggressively pursuing a major cloud computing and AI contract with the Pentagon, three years after employee outcry ended similar work on Project Maven
& we will win again. https://www.nytimes.com/... @alphabetworkers : Our working conditions include our ethical concerns. Workers should have full transparency on the real world impacts of our labor AN...
Documents show Microsoft and AWS secured contracts, worth $50M total, that appear linked to the Pentagon's Project Maven, following Google's exit
Thomas Brewster / Forbes : Tweets: @iblametom and @carnage4life Tweets: Thomas Brewster / @iblametom : NEW - After Google stopped working on drone surveillance software for the DOD Project Maven in 2...
Current and former Google employees say the company's HR routinely offers mental health counseling and medical leave when staff complain about racism and sexism
and even participate in it.” Oh I feel this in my bones. https://www.nbcnews.com/... Tiffani Ashley Bell / @tiffani : I read this this morning and I had to put it down for a sec when I saw how people ...
Source: Apple has terminated AI startup Xnor.ai's involvement in the Pentagon's Project Maven after its recent acquisition of the startup
Big technology companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google have jockeyed to secure lucrative contracts supplying their products and services to the military.
Palantir wins a one year $111M contract to connect US Army's operations systems into a single dashboard; Palantir reportedly took over Project Maven
- Company beats Microsoft, Ernst & Young, Accenture, Deloitte — Peter Thiel-backed company is also working on Project Maven