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U.S. military invites vetted experts to ‘Hack the Pentagon’
(By Andrea Shalal, Reuters) — The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would invite vetted outside hackers to test the cybersecurity of some public U.S. Defense Department websites as part of a pilot project...
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U.S. Secretary of Defense on Apple encryption: ‘I’m not a believer in backdoors’
The United States Secretary of Defense today came out against the creation of a so-called backdoor to break the data encryption of the iPhone at the heart of the Apple-FBI court case. Speaking at the...
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The Department of Defense launches a tech accelerator to solve ‘national...
The U.S. Department of Defense and New York University are co-hosting a disaster relief-focused hackathon in Brooklyn this weekend to draw attention to the agency’s new technology accelerator, MD5....
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The Department of Defense’s deep web search engine to find human traffickers...
Security and intelligence company IST Research has acquired Rescue Forensics to double down on its efforts to find human traffickers and victims of modern day slavery. IST Research and Rescue Forensics...
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AI Weekly: For the sake of us all, AI practitioners need a Hippocratic oath
Last week at SXSW, renowned futurist Amy Webb rolled out her 2018 Tech Trends Report, which focused heavily on artificial intelligence. China plans to become the world leader in AI by 2030, but Webb’s...
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AI Weekly: Google should listen to its employees and stay out of the business...
This week, we learned that thousands of Google employees are upset about the company’s involvement in Project Maven, a U.S. Department of Defense initiative that has tapped Google to help drones with...
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SRI International joins DARPA program to teach AI ‘memory’ recall
SRI International, creator of Apple’s Siri, has joined the Lifelong-Learning Machines research program from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the innovation arm of the U.S....
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AI Weekly: The end of Project Maven at Google shows the power of tech workers...
We’re roughly halfway through 2018, and one of the most important AI stories of the year so far is Project Maven and its fallout at Google. The program to apply AI to analyze drone video footage began...
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AI startup Clarifai hacked by Russian source while part of Pentagon’s Project...
Computer vision company Clarifai is being accused of being hacked last year by one or more people in Russia while participating in the Department of Defense’s Project Maven, then failing to report the...
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The White House launches ai.gov
The White House has launched ai.gov to highlight AI initiatives undertaken by federal agencies and the Trump administration.Read More
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Pentagon recruiter: Nerds and technologists must join AI race against China...
Techies who avoid working with the U.S. military enable nations like China and Russia in the AI arms race, director of the Defense Digital Service said recently.Read More
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The U.S. military wants your opinion on AI ethics
The U.S. Department of Defense visited Silicon Valley to solicit ethical guidance on how the military should develop or acquire autonomous systems.Read More
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Trump executive order spurs call for opinions on federal AI standards
The Department of Commerce wants the artifical intelligence community's opinion to help form technical AI standards for the federal government.Read More
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DoD’s Joint AI Center to open-source natural disaster satellite imagery data set
A group of AI practitioners and the U.S. military will soon open-source xBD, a labeled data set of satellite images from major natural disasters.Read More
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Weaponize your drone and face a $25,000 fine from the FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration this week warned that placing a dangerous weapon on a drone can carry a fine of up to $25,000.Read More
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Microsoft beats Amazon for $10 billion Pentagon JEDI cloud contract
Microsoft beat Amazon out for a $10 billion cloud contract to provide the United States Department of Defense with cloud computing services.Read More
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Defense Innovation Board unveils AI ethics principles for the Pentagon
AI ethics principles to guide U.S. military applications of artificial intelligence were approved today by the Defense Innovation Board.Read More
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The U.S. military, algorithmic warfare, and big tech
The U.S. military is preparing for the age of AI and algorithmic warfare, and it's getting help from tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.Read More
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Buttigieg and Yang say AI is essential to U.S. national security
Presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg and Andrew Yang asserted that artificial intelligence is essential to U.S. national security in the 21st century.Read More
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U.S. judge temporarily halts Microsoft JEDI contract work at Amazon’s request
A judge granted Amazon's request Thursday to halt Microsoft work on JEDI, a $10 billion cloud computing contract, claiming influence by President Trump.Read More
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Tech leaders highlight military AI and 5G investments they call essential to...
Executives from companies like Amazon and Microsoft are suggesting Congress and the president prioritize funding for certain 5G and AI projects.Read More
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The FCC’s dangerous new trick to grab mid band 5G spectrum: Beg Trump
In an effort to speed up U.S. access to 5G-friendly mid band spectrum, one FCC commissioner was willing to resort to personally flattering the president.Read More
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FCC moves to expand L-band to 5G after GPS interference controversy
The FCC continues to expand 5G frequency availability, enabling a controversial expansion that will open GPS-adjacent bandwidth to cellular use.Read More
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The Pentagon’s Joint AI Center wants to be like Silicon Valley
The largest Joint AI Center contract to date was awarded this week. CTO Nand Mulchandani on AI at the Pentagon and why JAIC is mimicking Silicon Valley.Read More
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U.S. funds AI project to enable millisecond-level 5G spectrum sharing
The Department of Defense is backing an initiative that will enable some 5G spectrum to be efficiently shared by multiple users on a millisecond basis.Read More
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The Pentagon’s AI director talks killer robots, facial recognition, and China
The Pentagon's Joint AI Center is working on lethal "tactical edge AI," but is not working on facial recognition, said JAIC director Nand Mulchandani.Read More
View ArticleSilicon Valley execs and Pentagon AI chief talk AI at the edge
Representatives from the Pentagon's Joint AI Center and Silicon Valley companies discussed the defense role of AI at the edge.Read More
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U.S. will reallocate military 3.5GHz spectrum for consumer 5G in 2021
The Department of Defense is handing over a large block of mid band spectrum for consumer 5G, helping the U.S. reach parity with China and other nations.Read More
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Pentagon scraps $10B JEDI project with Microsoft, calls deal outdated
The U.S. Department of Defense canceled a $10 billion JEDI cloud computing project with Microsoft and is pursuing a multicloud deal.Read More
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AI Weekly: Defense Department proposes new guidelines for developing AI...
The U.S. Defense Department's Defense Innovation Unit has proposed new ethics guidelines for private contractors developing AI systems.Read More
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