Cracks are forming in Meta’s partnership with Scale AI
Two months after making a $14.3B investment in Scale AI, Meta is relying heavily on its competitors to train next generation AI models.
The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says
The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data, MIT Technology Review has learned. AI models like Anthropic’s Claude are already used to answer questions in classified settings, including for analyzing targets in Iran. But allowing models to train on…
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