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Amazon Says It Lost $15 Billion Military Contract Because Trump Wanted To ‘Screw’ Jeff Bezos
Amazon thinks it lost a military cloud computing contract worth $US10 ($15) billion to rival Microsoft because our vendetta-addled president wanted to personally “screw” CEO Jeff Bezos, court documents show.
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U.S. National Security Commission Warns Pentagon Of Falling Hopelessly Behind In The AI Arms Race
An interim report compiled by a U.S. national security panel warns the U.S. government of falling too far behind China and Russia in the AI arms race, while calling for new investments to foster innovation.
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The U.S. Military Doesn’t Know How Many Websites It Operates
The Pentagon has a lot to keep track of these days. But don’t ask the folks over there a difficult question like how many websites they manage. An official at the U.S. Department of Defence recently admitted that they have no idea how many websites the U.S. military bureaucracy oversees.
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Employees Protest Microsoft Bid For Huge Military Contract, Saying It Could Cause ‘Human Suffering’
Last week, Google dropped its bid for the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI), a massive military cloud computing contract potentially worth up to $US10 ($14) billion, amid employee backlash and concern the project could violate their “AI principles.” Now an open letter claiming to be from an unspecified number of Microsoft employees is urging the…