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Commentators have been raising concerns over Twitter's recent hiring of artificial intelligence (AI) star Fei-Fei Li, who has links to the Chinese Communist Party.Twitter appointed Stanford professor and former Google vice president Li to its board as an independent director earlier this month, citing her AI expertise.Li's appointment came after…

Google Cloud has landed a deal to help the Department of Defense combat cyber threats worldwide.The deal will see Google's cloud division provide tools to the DoD's Defense Innovation Unit.But it could also prove controversial. Google has seen backlash in the past over its military partnerships, and while this deal…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018.Stephen Lam | ReutersGoogle Cloud has landed a deal with the Department of Defense, the company announced Wednesday.The deal is in the seven figure range, Axios reported ahead of the release.The deal…

For one thing, it disproves fears that the massive JEDI contract meant one company would get all the work. Google will build security-and app-management tools for the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, deepening the Silicon Valley giant’s military ties and illuminating the challenges facing the Defense Department’s drive to a multi-cloud environment.…

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the US special forces' top general "you absolutely suck at machine learning," The New York Times reported Saturday.The comments came in 2016 during Schmidt's push to expand his influence over the US military's strategy around technology and innovation, The New York Times reported.Schmidt now sits…

Palantir expects to generate $1 billion in revenue this year and to break even for the first time in its history, Bloomberg's Lizette Chapman first reported.Financial documents viewed by Bloomberg suggest that Palantir is preparing to go public.Palantir was previously rumored to go public last year.Visit Business Insider's homepage for…

How'd you kids meet? Oh, we were helping control an imaginary disease outbreak in a landlocked country Data science platform Dataiku is teaming up with military alliance NATO to create a system to help it build and "deploy" AI projects. The deal with NATO's Allied Command Transformation (ACT) aims to…

The Pentagon has announced five ethical principles for the use of AI by the US military. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the guidelines would accelerate the adoption of lawful and ethical uses of the technology by both combat and non-combat operations, but the hazy proposals contain little detail about how they’ll be applied to…

The US Department of Defense has announced plans to adopt ethical principles to push forward with the use of artificial intelligence within warfare. The Pentagon's Chief Information Officer, Dana Deasy, said the five AI principles would lay the foundation for "the ethical design, development, deployment, and the use of AI by…

Whew! Defense dept will 'detect and avoid unintended consequences' – so that's fine, right? The US Department of Defense has formally adopted a set principles to ensure the ethical development and deployment of AI technology for military use. "We owe it to the American people and to our men and…