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Drone technology helps locate hotspots in Brantley County wildfire battle

The music streaming platform will review criteria such as artists’ live dates and social media presence.

The US military has agreed eight new contracts with big tech firms as it expands its artificial intelligence capabilities.

MIT Research Scientist Afreen Siddiqi ’99, SM ’01, PhD ’06; MIT professors Kathleen Thelen and Vinod Vaikuntanathan SM ’05, PhD ’09; as well as Kate Manne PhD ’11 are among 223 scientists, artists, and scholars awarded 2026 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Working across 55 disciplines, the fellows were selected from almost 5,000 applicants…

Department of Defense CTO Emil Michael on Friday said Anthropic is still a supply chain risk, but that Mythos, the company’s artificial intelligence model with advanced cyber capabilities, is a “separate national security moment.” “I think the Mythos issue that’s being dealt with government-wide, not just at Department War, is a separate national security moment where…

The agreements with the technology companies come amid the Defense Department’s dispute with Anthropic.

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It’s not clear how DoD will use new AI tools, but officials said the effort will enable capabilities across warfighting, intelligence and enterprise operations. Anastasia Obis May 1, 2026 12:16 pm 3 min read The Defense Department has struck agreements with some of the nation’s largest technology companies to deploy their advanced artificial intelligence capabilities…

A dozen MIT students recently set out for Barcelona — not just to study climate resilience, but to experience it firsthand. As part of STS.S22 (How to Grow Resilient Futures: Regenerative Agriculture and Economies in Catalunya, Spain), an Independent Activities Period course taught by Kate Brown, the Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of…

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Friday that it has partnered with seven tech companies to tap into their artificial intelligence in classified systems, allowing the military to boost its use of AI to help it fight wars. Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection and SpaceX will provide resources to help “augment warfighter decision-making…