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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI-linked sports betting, AI to assess aging drivers for insurers and more

ScaleAI aims to be America's AI arms dealer in race against China; AI to personalise sports betting by bringing Netflix-like experience to wagers; Wikipedia's citation woes may be solved by AI, study suggests; Insurers turn to AI to assess cognitive decline in aging drivers- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. ScaleAI aims to be America's AI arms dealer in race against ChinaAlexandr Wang, CEO of ScaleAI, aims to provide the U.S. military with AI tech to gain an edge over China. ScaleAI has won a $249 million contract with the Department of Defense and has deployed its large language model chatbot, Donovan, on a classified Army network. Wang believes that private tech companies are essential for developing AI that will maintain the U.S.'s military's superiority, ac...
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Dating Apps, Yacht Research Found on Pentagon Phones Despite Ban

Defense Department employees are downloading mobile applications to their work telephones that pose “operational and cybersecurity risks,” the department's inspector general said in a report that stemmed from concern about the Chinese-owned video service TikTok and other messaging apps.Employees are conducting official business on their work devices “using mobile applications in violation of Federal and DoD electronic messaging and records retention policies,” the inspector general's management advisory said.  The activities ranged from online dating to games, cryptocurrency reviews and scouting for luxury yachts, according to the “management advisory” released Thursday. Pentagon agencies “lacked controls over personal use of DoD mobile devices to ensure that personal use was limited,...
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US Military Successfully Tests Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

US missile test: An unarmed Minuteman III ICBM missile being launched in California.Washington: The US military tested an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday, the second in less than a month after a previous launch was delayed twice.Washington announced the test in advance, an unusual move apparently aimed at heading off an escalation of tensions with Russia that are already heightened due to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine."Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with three test re-entry vehicles" early on September 7 from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, the US Air Force said in a statement.In a conflict, the re-entry vehicles would be armed with nuclear warheads."This test laun...
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US Military To Test Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Tomorrow, Notifies Russia

The United States last month carried out a test of a Minuteman III ICBM. (FILE)WASHINGTON: The US military will test launch an intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday, the Pentagon said, adding it has notified Russia in advance.A Pentagon spokesman described the test as routine and said it was meant to demonstrate the readiness of the US military's ICBM forces.The United States last month carried out a test of a Minuteman III ICBM, which had been delayed to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing during a Chinese show of force near Taiwan.(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) Source link
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At Least 13% Rise In Sexual Assault Cases In US Military In 2021: Pentagon

According to report, at least 8,866 sex assaults cases reported at US military academies last year.Washington: The number of sexual assaults in the US military increased by 13 percent in fiscal year 2021, reaching a record high, according to an annual report published Thursday by the Pentagon.The Department of Defense's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPR) said there were 8,866 reported assaults "involving service members as either victims or subjects" in the year to September 30, 2021, compared to 7,813 the previous year.But only a portion of sexual assaults are reported to authorities, and the SAPR, using surveys of the troops, estimates that nearly 36,000 active duty servicewomen and men -- 8.4 percent of women and 1.5 percent of men -- experienced unwanted sexual con...