Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200 million 'frontier AI' pilot project

DoD says deal covers 'warfighting'. OpenAI merely mentions healthcare and 'supporting proactive cyber defense' The US Department of Defense has contracted OpenAI to run a pilot program that will create "frontier AI," but it's not clear what they're building together.…
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‘AI is not doing its job and should leave us alone’ says Gartner’s top analyst

As for agentic AI, don’t get him started about the enormous challenge of making it work vendors just won't discuss “AI is not doing its job today and should leave us alone” according to analyst firm Gartner’s global chief of AI research Erick Brethenoux.…
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