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...The MethaneSAT satellite was announced by the Environmental Defense Fund six years ago as a way to monitor releases of methane, an invisible gas that researchers estimate is responsible for almost a third...
...In 2004, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency sponsored its first AV competition. Yet costs remain high. Cruise targets annual revenue of $50bn by 2030....
...Indeed, his failed attempt to bring private companies to the public markets via Europe’s largest SPAC has no doubt left a further scar....
...The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability succeeds the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (Jedi), which aimed to build a large common commercial cloud for the entire Department of Defense....
...Argo was founded in 2016 and led by Bryan Salesky, who like many got his start on the technology at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Urban Challenge, an early, high-profile test of automated...
...A small windfall for FTX: the bankrupt exchange has agreed to sell its futures and clearing business LedgerX LLC to stock and derivatives exchange MIAX for $50mn....
...This company shares a Russian director with “Velada LLC”, which was granted a concession by the Assad regime in Syria to explore for oil and gas....
...It is deliberately broad in its scope, covering corporations, LLCs and any other state-registered or foreign-registered business that transacts in the US....
...Amazon is locked in a legal battle with Microsoft over a $10bn contract to provide cloud computing services to the US Department of Defense, the so-called Jedi contract....
...The second-most significant anti-vaxx influencer, the report found, was Kennedy, and head of the anti-vaccination group Children’s Health Defense....
...Employees have organised several protests and walkouts in recent years, including one that led the tech group to drop a contract with the US Department of Defense in 2018....
...Black later admitted that Apollo had “stumbled” and paid too much for the Las Vegas company....
...The Department of Defense later added a further four companies to the blacklist....
...“We are not going to solve climate change simply by companies buying clean electricity,” says Nat Keohane, senior vice-president at the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington....
...That came amid an accelerating effort by scientists, activists and consultants to expose emissions and press companies into action....
...The Washington state-based company, which has facilities in five other states, said it had received direct correspondence from the Department of Defense, as well as the Department of Homeland Security, granting...
...solutions” for the US Department of Defense as part of its work....
...The company’s research arm published papers with China’s National University of Defense Technology on facial recognition and machine reading, a method for computers to understand text....
...“If big tech companies are going to turn their back on the US Department of Defense, this country is going to be in trouble,” he said....
...The company also unveiled a promise not to pursue applications of AI “that cause or are likely to cause overall harm”, with Mr Pichai saying the company would police the governments and companies that use...
...“These companies don’t just dominate the economy, they effectively are the economy,” she says....
...“Any military use of machine learning naturally raises valid concerns,” the company said....
...The move follows a decision not to renew a drone contract with the US Department of Defense....
...Yet he seems to love their company....
...That’s why Sarah Gordon and David Keohane sat down for a long lunch with Saint-Gobain chief Pierre-André de Chalendar at the top of the company’s headquarters in Paris’ business district of La Défense....
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