Palantir Wins $100 Million US Contract for AI Targeting Tech
- System helps identify battlefield targets, gather intelligence
- UN group urged countries to limit military use of AI tools
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Palantir Technologies Inc. has won a $100 million contract that will extend access to artificial intelligence targeting tools to more US military personnel, giving them access to the company’s digital warfare platform.
The platform, known as Maven Smart System, helps create a picture of the same battlefield on thousands of digital screens simultaneously. It draws on US intelligence data and uses computer-vision algorithms and AI-enabled software from other companies to help make sense of a situation and to find adversaries. The US military has used the system to help identify targets for air strikes in the Middle East this year, Bloomberg has reported.