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How Silicon Valley is helping the Pentagon in the AI arms race

By Tabby Kinder
Financial Times·
14 mins to read

The US military is opening up to defence and weapons start-ups as evolving technology begins to transform modern warfare.

For eight years, a docile fleet of bright orange, unmanned sailboats bobbed around the Bering Sea near Alaska, counting pollock and feeding data to the US government’s oceanic exploration agency.

Amassing an unrivalled database of ocean maps which could then be analysed by machine learning programs, the autonomous vessels made by Saildrone, a start-up founded in 2013 by young British engineer

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