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America has fired “something like eight years’ worth of Tomahawk missile production” in Iran, Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries, says on “Interesting Times,” where he and the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat discuss the limitations of America’s arsenal of “luxury” weapons.

AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch - because, despite what its website says, there's always a catch - is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, and wash, and use that footage to train robots. Shift announced the unusual offer on social media on Thursday, explaining that the value of the training data generated from the cleanings is more than enough to fund the service. As its website puts it: "You get a spotless apartment. We get training data. Everyone wins." A promotional video shows a cleaner in a crisp white uniform and awkward-looking hat (more on that later) washing windows … Read the full story at The Verge.

Centralizing software procurement enhances military efficiency and IT modernization, but execution risks could impact Dell's reputation and operations. The post Pentagon awards Microsoft $9.7B deal to consolidate software licenses across military branches appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Insider Brief Cornell University researchers have developed a collective robotic system that behaves more like a flowing material than a traditional machine, demonstrating how groups of simple robots can self-organize and adapt to changing environments without centralized control. According to Cornell, the research, conducted by engineers at Cornell and collaborators at the Georgia Institute of […]

Centralizing software procurement could streamline defense operations, reduce costs, and set a precedent for future government IT contracts. The post Pentagon awards Microsoft $9.7B deal to centralize software licenses appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The goal of the proposed Pentagon program would be to identify "recurring risks, failure modes, vulnerabilities, and systemic weaknesses” in AI systems.

The Pentagon's pushback on SpaceX's pricing highlights the growing tension between government reliance on private tech and cost control challenges. The post Pentagon disputes SpaceX’s $500M plan for Starlink service in Iran appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The Pentagon's pushback on SpaceX's pricing highlights the growing tension between government reliance on private tech and cost control challenges. The post Pentagon disputes SpaceX’s $500M plan for Starlink service in Iran appeared first on Crypto Briefing.