All-hands: Sam Altman defends OpenAI's US DOD deal, calls the backlash “painful”, and says OpenAI is looking at a deal to deploy on all NATO classified networks
Startup's deal to do classified work with Defense Department drew backlash from staff and other AI researchers
Sources and docs: a Russia-based Yandex employee maintains open-source tool fast-glob, embedded in 30 US DOD software packages and downloaded 70M times per week
The package is listed inside Platform One's Iron Bank, a vetted Defense Department software repository, people familiar say.
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 /...
A look at DARPA's “Exponentiating Mathematics” program, which aims to speed up progress in pure mathematics by developing an AI “co-author” to conduct research
Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence.
VCs put $100B+ in US defense tech startups since 2021, but convincing the Pentagon to buy from them has proven difficult; only a few had $25M+ in orders in FY23
Tech startups get cool reception from Defense Department despite its rhetoric that it will buy more from Silicon Valley
US DoD Chief Digital and AI Officer Craig Martell says the agency wants to use AI safely and urges companies to share insights into how their AI tools are built
- Defense Department is holding symposium to discuss AI — Official says agency wants to use the algorithms safely Bluesky: @manpageman.bsky.social . X: @alfred_lanning1 , @katrinamanson , and @lynnmd...
US DoD Chief Digital and AI Officer Craig Martell says the agency wants to use AI safely and urges companies to be more transparent about their AI software
- Defense Department is holding symposium to discuss AI — Official says agency wants to use the algorithms safely X: @alfred_lanning1 , @katrinamanson , and @lynnmdoan X: Alfred Lanning / @alfred_lan...
The Pentagon is considering building a vast network of AI-powered tech, drones, and autonomous systems in the next two years to counter threats from China
Defense Department seeks an array of air-, land- and sea-based autonomous systems to keep pace with adversaries
Congress could require vetting of US tech startups seeking federal funding after DoD found China is exploiting a program that funds small business innovation
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Defense Department solicits bids from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle for cloud contracts; DoD canceled its $10B JEDI contract in July
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