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Army Research Lab expands AI/ML contract with Palantir for $99.9M

Palantir Technologies will expand its work with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to implement data and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) capabilities for users across the combatant commands (COCOMs).

Air Force Research Laboratory awards BAE Systems $7.8M ML software contract

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded BAE Systems a $7.8 million contract to develop tightly-integrated machine learning software.

AlphaSense raises $225M

New York-based market intelligence and search platform company AlphaSense, has raised $225 million in a Series D funding round.

Invoca raises $83M

Invoca has raised $83 million in a Series F funding round. The investment was led by Silver Lake Waterman.

Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient — The Verge

The engineer, Blake Lemoine, works for Google’s Responsible AI organization, and was testing whether its LaMDA model generates discriminatory language or hate speech, writes...