Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft's Azure version of OpenAI's models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024
Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft's version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.
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 /...
How advances in AI and autonomous systems, new tech, and lower costs are shifting global wars towards “precise mass”, or the mass deployment of uncrewed systems
"Militaries are beginning to realize that they don't have to choose between precision and mass; they can have both." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ... Shashank Joshi / @shashj : “One report suggests...
The US Defense Department plans to buy Starlink satellite terminals and services for use by Ukraine's military, after a funding dispute with SpaceX
The Pentagon is buying Starlink satellite communications terminals and services from billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX for use by the Ukraine military, the Defense Department said.
Six robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, pledge not to support the weaponization of their products and say adding weapons will erode trust in robots
the provider of a bot model that was outfitted with a machine gun and later a RPG launcher—make the same pledge. https://www.pcmag.com/... @litcapital : That's exactly what you'd say right before weap...
A Washington, DC federal judge has blocked the DOD from restricting US investments in Xiaomi; restrictions were scheduled to go into effect next week
A federal judge in Washington blocked the Defense Department from restricting U.S. investment in the Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi Corp.
Microsoft and Amazon exchange acerbic blog posts, accusing each other of underhanded tactics in their fight over the DoD JEDI cloud infrastructure contract
Microsoft and Amazon are at it again as the fight for the Defense Department JEDI contract continues.
The Pentagon says Amazon and Microsoft are the final candidates for its $10B JEDI contract and that IBM and Oracle didn't meet the minimum requirements
The Pentagon said Wednesday that Amazon and Microsoft were the final candidates for a hotly contested $10 billion contract to bring modern cloud computing to the Defense Department.
Source: the Defense Department wants to put a total of $1.7B toward the new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center over the next five years
Cade Metz / New York Times : Tweets: @benioff and @stevekopack Tweets: Marc Benioff / @benioff : “In the eyes of some researchers, creating robotic vehicles and developing robotic weapons are very di...