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Google has signed a new AI contract with the Pentagon that goes well beyond previous arrangements, granting the military access to its AI tools for, quote, any lawful government purpose. The deal marks a significant broadening of the tech industry's willingness to partner with defense, raising fresh questions about where the boundaries of commercial AI should end and weapons applications begin.
Shifting overseas, China has suspended new robotaxi licenses following a high-profile breakdown last month in Wuhan, where dozens of Baidu's Apollo Go vehicles simultaneously stalled in traffic, snarling the city for hours. The freeze signals that even the most aggressive autonomous vehicle programs face real accountability when the rubber meets the road, or rather, when it doesn't.
And in corporate boardrooms, a new analysis suggests that businesses pouring money into artificial intelligence are often seeing little return because the underlying systems those tools are meant to improve remain fundamentally broken. Spending on AI without fixing core operational problems, the report argues, is less a transformation strategy and more an expensive way to automate dysfunction.
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