All-hands: Sam Altman says OpenAI does not “get to make operational decisions” regarding how the US DOD uses its tech, and the Pentagon respects its expertise
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Scale AI is suing the US DoD; Scale AI has several contracts with the department, and a spokesperson says the lawsuit “relates to a recent procurement decision”
- Scale AI is suing the Department of Defense, filing its complaint on January 30.
The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows
Now his AI company is celebrating a $200M Pentagon contract and new unit to get government business Brian Fagioli / NERDS.xyz : Elon Musk wants to infect the government with AI using Grok Brady Knox /...
The US DOD awards Scale AI a prototype contract for “Thunderforge”, to use AI agents for planning and operations; a source says it is a multimillion-dollar deal
Scale AI on Wednesday announced a landmark deal with the Department of Defense that could be a turning point …
The US National Science Foundation partners with OpenAI, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and others to launch NAIRR, a pilot to expand researchers' access to AI tools
combining the best of safety, privacy, & use! We're hiring!!! https://openmined.org/... @whostp : Today, @NSF launched the National AI Research Resource pilot. Giving researchers, educators, and stude...
The Department of Defense hires Craig Martell, Lyft's head of machine learning, as the Pentagon's first chief digital and artificial intelligence officer
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FOIA docs: Google sold $2.5M worth of cloud software and AI tools to help the Pentagon deal with the COVID-19 pandemic
Amidst concerns over Big Tech sales of AI technology to the Pentagon, Google furnished the Department of Defense with cloud software and artificial intelligence tools …
As autonomous war tech advances, the US military must confront complex ethical issues, like how much control to give machines to kill on the battlefield
Zachary Fryer-Biggs / Washington Post : Tweets: @martoiu , @jdflynn , @henrybendon , @washingtonpost , @marywareham , and @kevincarey1 Tweets: Mihai Martoiu Ticu / @martoiu : The Pentagon is investin...
Sources: executives and employees at Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and others are seeking to place allies in senior roles at government agencies under Biden
as the company tries to pursue military contracts and defense work...” https://www.reuters.com/... Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer : Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt “has been making personnel recomme...
DOD awards $600M to AT&T, Ericsson, Nokia, and others for 5G experiments at five US military test sites; tests will include pilots for 5G-enabled AR/VR
The Department of Defense today announced it is awarding some $600 million to more than a dozen companies for “5G experimentation” at five military test sites.