Google has secured a multi-million dollar contract to provide classified cloud services with AI capabilities to NATO's Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre (JATEC) in Poland. The partnership marks a significant step in NATO's cloud adoption strategy and represents a unique collaboration between the alliance and Ukraine to analyze lessons from the ongoing conflict.
Pilatus, a Swiss company, sent 30 IT apprentices to Silicon Valley for a three-week training program. During this time, they worked on an IT project independently and within teams, developing innovative solutions such as SwitchBox.
The Pentagon has launched GenAi.mil, a new website offering generative AI tools to all three million personnel. The first AI available on the site is Google's Gemini, capable of handling highly sensitive but unclassified information.
The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday evening to decide whether it will loosen its company policy regarding the military's use of its Claude AI model, or be deemed a 'supply chain risk.' This decision comes amid a brewing conflict between the Pentagon and the tech company over the firm's policy against the potential for Claude to be used as a tool of mass surveillance or in autonomous lethal weapon systems. Breaking Defense reports that the public missive is the latest in a days-long dispute, with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reportedly meeting with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth this week in an attempt to iron out the issues.