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14 Jul

Pentagon Cancels Controversial JEDI Project, Ending The Amazon-Microsoft Tug-Of-War

In light of the legal battle involving Amazon and Microsoft’s claims to the $10 billion cloud deal, the USA’s Department of Defense called off the contract putting an end to the ongoing dispute. The Joint Enterprise Defense (JEDI) cloud contract was to be handed out to a private player for revamping and modernising Pentagon’s IT…

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12 Sep

China’s Global Initiatives, AI Fighter Pilots And More In This Week’s Top News

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The US has been creating troubles for the Chinese tech industry with all their trade tricks. Recently Tik Tok, one of the popular social media platforms has been in the midst of this ongoing trade war. However, China has finally decided that it is not going to bow down and have announced their own global…

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30 Oct

Microsoft’s $10 Billion Deal With Pentagon Might Change The Cloud Computing Game

Governments around the world are sceptical when it comes to integrating the latest technologies like artificial intelligence and facial recognition into defence systems. One of the primary barriers for such implementations is the citizens, who express security concerns. However, by announcing Microsoft as the winner for the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI) initiative, the US…

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30 Oct

Microsoft’s $10 Billion Deal With Pentagon Might Change The Cloud Computing Game

Governments around the world are sceptical when it comes to integrating the latest technologies like artificial intelligence and facial recognition into defence systems. One of the primary barriers for such implementations is the citizens, who express security concerns. However, by announcing Microsoft as the winner for the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI) initiative, the US…

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13 Feb

Pentagon Outlines New AI Strategy Following Trump’s Announcement

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This week saw the US military taking steps to expand the use of artificial intelligence in warfare. Outlining their first AI strategy in a report released Tuesday, the Pentagon said that they will take care to deploy the technology in accordance with the “nation’s values”. In a report titled Harnessing AI to Advance Our Security and…

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13 Feb

Pentagon Outlines New AI Strategy Following Trump’s Announcement

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This week saw the US military taking steps to expand the use of artificial intelligence in warfare. Outlining their first AI strategy in a report released Tuesday, the Pentagon said that they will take care to deploy the technology in accordance with the “nation’s values”. In a report titled Harnessing AI to Advance Our Security and…

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21 Dec

How This Pentagon Contract Brought About The Fall Of AI Guru Fei-Fei Li

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Leading AI ethicist and one of the brightest stars of the AI world, Fei Fei Li’s meteoric rise in the academic and tech world has been upstaged by a bunch of leaked emails which seem to have derailed her career, albeit temporarily. The well-known AI guru whose rise from humble beginnings as a daughter of…

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