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U.S. troops need more artificial intelligence support to challenge Russia and China on the information battlefield, where those two adversaries have American forces outgunned, according to a new Pentagon-commissioned report.
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Defense News on MSNPentagon taps four commercial tech firms to expand military use of AIGoogle, Anthropic, OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI — will help the DOD develop AI workflows for key national security missions.
The Pentagon awards $200 million contracts to Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to develop AI systems for US defense and national security operations.
The Pentagon is set to spend nearly a billion dollars for AI with four major Silicon Valley tech firms, Google, xAI, OpenAI and Anthropic.
Observers noted differences between AI-generated recommendations and those made solely by operators.
Musk’s company, xAI, announced that it was releasing “Grok for Government,” a suite of products that allows federal, state, and local governments to utilize AI for their specific needs.
This year the Pentagon requested $1.8 billion to research, develop, test and evaluate artificial intelligence — a record, but still just a fraction of the nearly $900 billion defense budget.
Microsoft is preparing a version of its Copilot AI tool for the Pentagon as it nears a deal to add 1 million new users from a mystery customer.
The heart of the Pentagon AI strategy published Tuesday is a unit established in June last year called the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, known as the JAIC. It will function as a hub of AI ...
The Pentagon will look to develop new artificial intelligence-guided planes, offering two contracts that several private companies have been competing to obtain. The Collaborative Combat Aircraft ...
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Pentagon Awards up to $200 Million to AI Companies Whose Models Are Rife With Ideological BiasThe Department of Defense awarded contracts to Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. The last two are particularly concerning.